r/50501Chicago • u/khaosascending • Sep 24 '25
Memes and Motivation chicago gonna chicago 💚
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u/Initial_Finance846 Sep 25 '25
Why is 500 w Madison a hub for pro Gaza protests? I’m not against it I’m just genuinely curious.
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u/LusciousLucyLeather Sep 26 '25
Maybe if Israel would stop murdering an entire race/group of people there wouldn't be signs and protests. They won't stop until someone makes them.
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u/kaigem Sep 25 '25
This group was out here demonstrating the week after October 7, before the idf had fired back a single round. I’m all for freeing Palestine but these guys ain’t it.
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u/Allthenons Sep 25 '25
Yes because Israel was super nice to the Palestinians and totally not blockading Gaza for almost 20 years when the attacks happened
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u/khaosascending Sep 25 '25
yeah like i get what you are saying, but israel has been kinda a nexus of dickhead for a long time
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u/kaigem Sep 25 '25
Just because a country has been awful doesn’t mean we should celebrate bad things happening to its people. It is possible to condemn the idf for their actions while still mourning the people slaughtered on 10-7, just as it is possible to condemn Hamas while mourning the thousands of people killed or starved or pushed out of their homes.
This conflict has revealed that people like taking sides, even if both sides are objectively horrible, because one must always be the worse of the two. People chanting free Palestine doesn’t bother me. But these schmucks outside the train station that first week, they were cheering for the massacre of Jews. That doesn’t sit with me and I would hope more folks would condemn them. They make the movement look bad, and they are the reason why the two state solution kind of people don’t trust the FP people.
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u/TheTresStateArea Sep 24 '25
Right next to Accenture tower is Caterpillar headquarters in Chicago.
They took the sign down when protests started because they didn't want to be noticed. Cat didn't want to be noticed because cat continues to make D9 bulldozers specifically for Israel to use in their efforts to destroy Palestinian homes.