Many people have a preference for civility politics. They prefer negative peace over a positive justice. They have similar reactions when vegan animal rights activists point out things that trigger their cognitive dissonance.

Thankfully, their pissing and moaning about these groups still being more attention to these urgent issues than quietly begging for justice ever has, so even if they don’t like it, these kinds of stunts are still effective.

Yeah, I don’t condone throwing canned food at paintings in museums - but that’s how I heard about them, so I guess it worked?