Protesters Plan to Shut Down Chicago's O'Hare Airport on Labor Day

[Lee-Lee]

48. That's a false dichotomy

You are framing it as if the only possible choices are to not address issue at all, or to do it only in this way.

That’s a dishonest argument intended to shut up anyone with an opposing view by claiming they must care more about the comfort of some privledged people more than addressing the issues. And presenting it as if those are the only two options.

The reality is, of course, much more complicated and has a wealth of other options

There are many ways to protest, and not all are effective. If you end up turning more people off to your message than you do gaining allies then your protests are not effective and, in fact, do more harm than good.

And, of course, we have your assumptions that everyone flying is “privileged” that is far, far from reality also. And your assumption that everyone affected by a shutdown are only the people flying, and not a whole host of other people as well. I imagine had they succeeded in shutting it down a lot of people working there like skycaps, wait staff, taxi drivers, etc who either work for tips or who get paid based on business volume would also be affected. I’m sure a Holdiay weekend like Labor Day is big for them as far as income, they choose to work over the holiday hoping for a good payday and it gets ruined by things like this.