“We support the right of people to protest and demonstrate but it must always be done in a peaceful and respectful way.”
Go stand over there so we can continue to ignore you
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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Protesting is allowed down in a cellar, at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.
The powerful don’t do anything in a peaceful or respectful way.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Victorian police are investigating “criminal damage” to a century-old Captain Cook statue in St Kilda in an apparent protest over the Australia Day public holiday.
Police said members of the public reported that the Captain Cook memorial near Jacka Boulevard had been vandalised about 3.30am on Thursday morning.
The plinth had been spray painted with the slogan: “The colony will fall.”
Several people were seen loitering in the area around the time, police said.
According to the Captain Cook Society, the monument to the British explorer was likely to have been the first major memorial to him in Victoria when it was unveiled in December 1914.
Its engraving commemorates the date of the Endeavour’s departure from Plymouth in 1768 on Cook’s first voyage that included charting the east coast of Australia.
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All this does is turn people against the cause. But then again, I feel like this was done to make the people who did it feel special and important.
The fallacy of any publicity is good publicity needs to be put to rest.
Turned people against how?
'Cos most of the reactions i've seen haven't been "oh my statues!! My art!!' but general ambivalent approval ranging from a running commentary of hilarity on the statue's fate to a simple 'good'.
Ain't no one getting aggro over a cook statue. Burke and wills maybe, that vandalism made no sense, but cook? Eh, fuck 'im
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