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I never can quite understand the concept of casting aspersions on a person you're having a debate with.
Accusing me of being educationally elitist does not serve your side of the conversation.
It only increases the divide between us, and it makes me not like you as a person.
If your goal is to be disliked, you're very, very close to your goal.
But if your goal is instead to argue, which is what my assumption was, that people who make financially bad decisions regarding their education should suffer the consequences of those decisions... Well, I mean, it's not like I was going to like you for your stance anyway, but at least you wouldn't be attacking me for no reason.
This accusation exists only in your mind. I pointed out that, in advocating for student loan forgiveness, you are advocating for a financial incentive that is going solely to the demographic of people who are the least impoverished, on average.
And that is a simple, plain, objective fact, not an accusation on any moral axis, or "casting aspersions". I didn't say a single word about you as a person, you pulled that literally out of thin air. Not appreciated.
You are talking specifically to me making an accusation that assumes incorrect information about me, therefore labeling it as an accusation is an accurate statement.
I assumed nothing about you, at all. These are the facts plainly stated in our exchange:
If anything, I would be justified in labeling you as being disingenuous, based on your obviously-deliberate mischaracterization of my argument, but I didn't even do that, I just replaced your straw man with the actual argument. Even then, there has been no 'incorrect information assumed about you'.
All of the information I responded to was overtly present within the words you wrote.