In Quebec mindless mobs are mainly French.

[Guest Peeves]

An interesting take on those whiners that demand extra pampering and entitlement.

Truncated for brevity.

In case you haven’t noticed, the massive protests in Quebec have been rather one-sided, culturally speaking. As the mindless mobs fill the streets day after day, protesting the injustice of having to pay a few hundred dollars more in tuition, you will find that amongst them, almost nary is heard an English-language word.

This is a linguistically schizoid protest. There are 43 francophone CEGEPs in Quebec, of which 28 are on strike. None of the five anglo CEGEPs are. None of those students will miss their year. There are four universities in Montreal: two francophone, two anglophone. At the Université de Montréal, almost a third of the students are officially on strike – 12,000 out of 40,000. Many of them will lose their term. At UQAM, more than half — 27,000 of 40,000 -– went on strike and the campus pretty well shut down.

True, at Concordia, a much more politicized and left-leaning population than the generally more bourgeois constituency at McGill, almost a quarter –12,000 of 45,000 -– were out, but only a small number of actual classes were disrupted, unlike at the franco colleges. In fact, according to veteran columnist Josh Freed of the Montreal Gazette, some Concordia profs who couldn’t access their classrooms were actually teaching out of their homes.

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At McGill, the situation is unique. Last week McGill estimated only 40 – yes, forty – students out of 38,000 were on strike and no classes had been disrupted.

You can’t explain the imbalance by class or economics. Of course there are more privileged students at McGill in general than at some of the other universities. But there are also plenty of struggling students, and it isn’t as if the U of M is an inner-city university. Its’ magnificent art deco campus is home to many of Quebec’s franco elites.

And Concordia has traditionally been the working man’s and immigrant’s campus. There are plenty of hard-luck stories there. But the fact that those who wanted to carry on with their studies at the anglo institutions were able to, while the franco institutions virtually shut down is instructive.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/05/24/barbara-kay-quebecs-mindless-mobs-reflect-frenchenglish-divide/

[Black Dog]

Hey how about using one of the existing threads on this. Jeez.

[Guest Peeves]

Hey how about using one of the existing threads on this. Jeez.

I considered that.

AND;

I will if I can contribute, but this is an entirely different slant on the situ.

[Black Dog]

I considered that.

AND;

I will if I can contribute, but this is an entirely different slant on the situ.

No, it's unnecessary thread-spamming.

[The_Squid]

Yeah, too many threads on the same topic. Silly.

[Rick]

That's not including the very same topic which he started again today after a moderator had felt the one he started yesterday needed to be merged with an existing thread yesterday..

[bleeding heart]

He should have titled this thread "The French Suck," and be done with it.

That's the primary point here, after all.

[Guest Peeves]

He should have titled this thread "The French Suck," and be done with it.

That's the primary point here, after all.

Not true, I'm neutral on the Quebec ? at this time..unless you mean the France French, then I have an opinion. They don't s suck so much as they blow.

Edited May 27, 2012 by Peeves