squash it.

I hate the term “loan forgiveness.” No one is forgiving shit: if you take a job in which you serve the public good, you aren’t performing some philanthropic service that absolves you from a fucking irresponsible and reckless past in which the fact you took out loans was somehow equivalent to taking the bite out of a certain apple on a fast-forward voyage to becoming Fallen Flesh to be judged by The State. You’re working. Not to sound all entitled and shit—though this is an issues in which I think a sense of entitlement is worthwhile, especially when you have some claim to doing your job well, however problematic a term—but I should be forgiving the STATE and ~~the economy~~ capitalism for making me have to take out loans in order to provide a public service.

Yes, I made a choice to go back to school to pursue a relatively low-paying career, and to take out loans in order to do so. So. The. Fuck. What.?

Fuck “loan forgiveness”: this is beef. Beef with a system of education that more often than not costs roughly the same as a mortgage; beef with the state that has allowed education to become a commodity. If you’re getting rid of my loans, great; that doesn’t make you magnanimous and it doesn’t make me hate the state any less. Beef, on the other hand, is squashed, not forgiven. And squashed without me having to pretend as if the state—or the public, for that matter—were some fucking proto-salvific source of Christianesque absolution.

Fuck forgiveness. Call it loan squashing.

::end rant::