A painting of Lord Balfour housed at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College was slashed by protest group Palestine Action.
The painting of Lord Balfour was made in 1914 by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College. The Palestine Action group specifically targeted the Lord Balfour painting, describing his declaration as the beginning of “ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away—which the British never had the right to do.”
Look, you wanna protest and shit? Go ahead, but if you start vandalizing art in museums you instantly lose my sympathy.
If art of the dude responsible for the genocide makes you lose sympathy for the victims, then maybe it’s time to stop pretending you care at all and just embrace the genocide.
I should’ve worded myself better, I lose sympathy for the person doing the defacing, as in I don’t care about what they have to say and I could care less if they get in trouble for it.
No, everyone understood what you meant just fine.
It’s the sentiment that’s the problem, not the wording.
Fascism has always been primarily aesthetic
How the fuck is that “the dude responsible for the genocide”?
Pretty sure that man is dead. Don’t you think maybe multiple people are responsible? Don’t you think those people are the ones carrying it out?
Dude, it’s literally called Balfour Declaration. This guy is directly responsible for the mess we’re in today.
It’s really interesting, that you ostensibly value art so much, but are obviously almost criminally ignorant of the history behind art. Probably never seen a museum from the inside, but jerking yourself off, what a sophisticated person you are.
I’m pretty sure the standing orders of the Israeli military are more “directly” responsible for this genocide than the Balfour Declaration.
And when were those orders made?
Alright you’re obviously a troll because nobody is this stupid.
Are you able to say, in your own words, what point I’m trying to make?
lol lol lol no, everyone will pass on that one
Maybe you should read; pick up a history book instead of wading in here and pretending to know what you’re talking about.
No I get how history works.
I just know that genocide is always blamed on historical factors while it’s happening, and then decades later people wonder “why didn’t we blame the people who were doing it?”
Dude just stop. Nobody gives a fuck about your ignorant shit.
If all it takes for you to lose sympathy is damaging some art of a coloniser, they didn’t have your sympathy to begin with.
Apparently you didn’t read the article, the guy had a direct role in the destruction of Palestine
That’s not how the word “direct” works.
This is like taking down Confederate statues.
Why y’all worshipping assholes?
Not really the same. The public gets a say in which art pieces are displayed in public. Museums exist for the preservation of history, good or bad.
This is Britain mate, and the riff-raff have almost no say in such things.
Ugh. You insufferable robots moved over here from Reddit? At least you’re being downvoted.
It was in a college, not a museum.
Paintings and statues in public places is a fair game imo.
Sure. But I still think the destruction of art is destruction of history, regardless of how someone feels about it. If you don’t like it in public, then it’s better to take it down and store it somewhere else for preservation purposes if nothing else.
This guy’s paintings have about as much historical value as Hitler pictures and confederate general statues.
Which is to say a lot?