At his recent town hall, Joe Biden made a series of convoluted and condescending comments about American student debt. His remarks cast doubt on his ability, or willingness, to confront this countrys ballooning student loan crisis. Within hours, #cancelstudentdebt was trending on Twitter.
Bidens rambling justification of the status quo was peppered with straw men, invocations of false scarcity and non-solutions. He pitted working-class Americans against each other, implying that people who attend private schools arent worthy of relief, as though poor students dont also attend such schools. He said that money would be better spent on early childhood education instead of debt cancellation, as if educators arent themselves drowning in studen…
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