tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post107399563545544476..comments2024-03-28T16:15:19.319-04:00Comments on Saideman's Semi-Spew: The Students are Really Revolting!Steve Saidemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-770297907962083872012-05-16T14:53:07.263-04:002012-05-16T14:53:07.263-04:00Given that the "student movement" seems ...Given that the "student movement" seems to be pretty well fragmented, one wonders who the government can really negotiate with. If I'm the Quebec government negotiating with a group of students, but there's another group of students not represented at the table who will continue throwing smoke bombs/disrupting classes/what have you out there somewhere, why am I wasting my time talking with people who can't "deliver" their side? There is almost no way for a negotiation under such conditions to succeed. Maybe this is just negotiating for side benefits - so the government can be seen as "doing the right thing", so that when the students have thoroughly alienated everybody and the government REALLY cracks down, they can say, "we tried to do this the right way."R. William Ayreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228717107253041752noreply@blogger.com