Piggybacking off of this to say that I recently looked at a lot of scientific literature on protests (for this post, although that post doesn’t address the relevant evidence), and my current position is
there is only limited evidence on whether the “throwing soup at paintings” genre of protests is effective
if anything, the evidence suggests that it has a positive effect
I wouldn’t confidently say that it has a positive effect, but I certainly wouldn’t confidently say that’s counterproductive, either, because the (very weak) evidence goes the other direction.
Piggybacking off of this to say that I recently looked at a lot of scientific literature on protests (for this post, although that post doesn’t address the relevant evidence), and my current position is
there is only limited evidence on whether the “throwing soup at paintings” genre of protests is effective
if anything, the evidence suggests that it has a positive effect
I wouldn’t confidently say that it has a positive effect, but I certainly wouldn’t confidently say that’s counterproductive, either, because the (very weak) evidence goes the other direction.