This just in: “Student debt is policy violence.”
So says Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley.
Let’s make it plain: student debt is policy violence.
We’ll keep fighting to relieve families across the country, to make sure our policies & budgets reflect their lived experiences & that we build this grassroots movement to #CancelStudentDebt together🧵
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) December 17, 2021
It seems the only definition more malleable these days than that of “infrastructure” is this one.
Speech is violence. Book promotion is violence. Shifting funding from one subsidized-food program to another subsidized-food program is violence. Lending is violence.
Does actual violence — being inflicted now at record levels — even rate? Just last year, Nikole Hannah-Jones insisted that property damage certainly is not violence, and she admonished the media: “We need to be really careful with our language.”
I couldn’t agree more on that latter point.
Dan McLaughlin wrote yesterday about the Left’s persistent effort to redefine commonly understood terms and about the complicity at times of the press. Nobody should fall for the crass attempts to redefine this one, considering how many Americans face the real stuff every day.