The tuition protest was an exercise of student selfishness and entitlement.
This past Thursday, some of downtown Montreal’s busiest streets were clogged with students protesting against increases in their tuition.
Aside from being a total waste of time, as the budget mandating the increases has already been passed, the protest was an example of student selfishness and entitlement.
The protesters were essentially demanding that the rest of Quebec’s population, whose lives are not heavily subsidized by the government, pay so that theirs can be.
People actually attempting to use the streets for their intended purpose, transportation, had to wait until the hoards of “fauxhemians” with their red flags and face-masks passed before they could go home and play with their kids.
There are many ways to attract sympathy, but yelling at people to give you more money, totally inconveniencing them and generally pissing them off, is probably not one of them.