I find it extremely interesting the number of people willing to pronounce on the student protests in Quebec based on a gut sense of how young people today are and some reminiscences of how they were when they were young.

I don't agree with everything that the students in Quebec are asking for, and I certainly don't support the isolated violence that has marked their protests and captivated the press, but the framing of this issue as a binary one where students are a bunch of whiny, entitled, spoilt brats is troubling and diminishes us all.