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If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
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[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Accusing me of being educationally elitist

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.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You write "help people", but you specifically want to help the (educational) demographic of people who least need it, statistically.

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.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I assumed nothing about you, at all. These are the facts plainly stated in our exchange:

Fact: You're in favor of student loan forgiveness.
Fact: You created a straw man argument by acting like my being against student loan forgiveness was equivalent to my being against taxes being used to help people. To quote you: "Why would you not want your tax money to go to help people?"
Fact: Student loan forgiveness only helps a small minority of people.
Fact: Said minority are wealthier on average than the rest of the population, and the crux of my argument all this time is that no such government aid should be going exclusively to those who are objectively least in need of it, on average.

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.