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Is canceling student loan debt considered stealing? (discuss.online)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lriv724@discuss.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have an economics teacher that made this claim in class yesterday. I wanted to know other people’s thoughts about it.

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[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

At a public awareness March in my country a speaker claimed COVID was racist because it disproportionately killed indigenous peoples.

You could argue that is correlation, where the cause was actually being unvaccinated. This was an antivax march, so obviously it was the government's fault, not being unvaccinated.