Student debt shouldn't be canceled?

While canceling student debt is a good thing for people that are stressing over the amount of money they have to pay back and just want to worry about their education, one such article on The Onion expresses the opinions of people who are not students. Even though the students are free from debt, there are other people who went through the same circumstances and thinks it's unfair that he wasn't free from debt. Arlo Jones, a chef, says, “Giving government handouts to people with student loan debt is unfair to those who have paid chef off their student loans and want to be real assholes about it.” With this quote, we can tell that Jones is definitely mad that he had to pay off his student debt, and the current generation doesn't need to, which gives them a massive head-start in life, which he thinks is unfair, which is true, and you can't really blame him. He has a right to be mad, but I don't think that should be a reason to oppose the cancellation of student debt. What this article is most likely criticizing is that, this change should've been made a long time ago, which would've helped a lot more people as well as have less people that are mad about this change. Because this change is long due in America, debt has been associated with America as stated by Dorothy Henderson, who said, “Can you even call yourself an American if you’re not drowning in debt?” This isn't exactly opposing the cancellation of student debt, but she is speaking on behalf of the majority of the American population, who would've given anything to not have any debt. Altogether, this article has people from different positions in society talking about their disbelief in the student loan relief plan because they didn't have access to this.




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  1. AnonymousMarch 3, 2024 at 7:26 PM

    I like how you analyzed the quote from Jones, instead of just leaving it at the unfairness of the situation, you went deeper and pointed out that the quote criticizes how late the change came.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 4, 2024 at 5:30 AM

    I like how you said what the article was likely saying, as that may be hard to deduce from satire.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 4, 2024 at 5:35 AM

    I like how you said the article expresses the opinions of people who aren’t students which is ironic because their opinions shouldn’t even consider because they don’t have the problem of debts a student has to face

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