R-slurred activists throw paint at Stonehenge to protest climate change and redditors decide to defend them

>I genuinely don't know what else they're supposed to do.

Go throw orange paint on the CEO's house of BP, Carnival Cruises, etc?

There aren't too many well know. monuments made by or depicting Native Americans in the US or Canada, or at least that can be damaged by a couple of r-slurs with paint.

The majority of statues of Native Americans or Native American individuals, while kinda numerous, are relatively obscure or not well known since they're either "problematic" (depicting them as noble savage or not "historically conscious" ) or just plain forgotten about since many are pretty old and date back to the late 19th or early 20th century.

Actual physical monuments made by Indians are often too big or covered by grass like Mississippian mounds or buried rock effigies like Cahokia or Serpent Mound so paint wouldn't be as a big deal. I'm sure you could get some sneed by still doing it since you are "disrespecting their (is nearest tribe that claims dibs) ancestral sites" but actual damage would be minimal if at all. Plus, while Cahokia is kinda well known (the only Native American city prior to mayoid contact), it doesn't have the same presence as Stonehenge and all other sites are really only well known to locals near it. If protesters decided to use shovels and dig than that would be different

Petroglyphs would probably be the most damaged but they're usually pretty common, kinda have to go out of your way to reach them (leave a city ) and not any particular site is that famous, not to mention, a lot of publicly accessible petroglyphs are already kinda "damaged" since visitors like to leave their own carvings or marks (some are over 100 years old as well ) so at best, people might be a little miffed or annoyed that they have to clean it up, including the most cute twinky of Injun activists.

Actual archaeological sites are basically completely unknown to the public at large, in very rural and out of reach locations, and often very difficult to recognize in passing since archaeologists like to keep the dirt as covered as possible nowadays. The only ones that are noticeable are old or ancient pueblo sites in the Southwest like Chaco Canyon or Mesa Verde which, along with damaging Native American artifacts (pipes, cowtools, pottery, etc.), I don't think protestors are that r-slurred. Technically, the Mississippian mounds are archaeological sites but they're more seen as monuments so

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