DEI Degree Folks Should Get Their Student Loans Forgiven
Don't shift the responsibility for lost jobs to Trump, it was the college's fault
Yesterday I wrote about the Germ Theory Drama Triangle after watching the latest Darkhorse Podcast Episode, “A Germ of Truth”. Towards the end of that podcast, Bret Weinstein started to wonder what our obligation (as Trump voters) is to all of the people with DEI jobs that just got fired from their jobs. Bret, in a previous episode was told about Borrowers Defense to Repayment. I shared a clip of that in this note:
But, I do not know that Bret has put these two things together. And, perhaps, Bret wouldn’t want my “solution.” But I wanted to write my unique thoughts on this situation here anyway.
It was always stupid to get a degree in how to segregate people by “race”1 and then call it inclusion and equitable. I’ve also written about why “Restorative Justice” doesn’t work. The same could apply for people with “gender studies” if they are losing their jobs (which they should if they’re promoting the lie that people can transition into another sex). These were idiotic fields of study because they were all based on things that could not work in the real world.
Someone working in colleges decided to make those ideas into degrees that people could study and graduate with. If people all lose their jobs because Trump was elected, will they blame Trump (and Trump voters) or the colleges? I think we know. But I think it’s the colleges who created the problem here by offering these studies and degrees in the first place. To blame Trump would be to responsibility shift.
Justice Restored with BDR
So, to bring justice to this situation, may the people who lost their jobs apply for a Borrowers Defense to Repayment (BDR) as I did to get their student loans discharged. You can read my story here (I had over $27,000 in student loans discharged).
Put those Colleges Out of Business
The sorts of people who read my work may balk at this suggestion to give these people all of their college tuition for free. They sure as hell don’t want to pay for those student loans with their tax money. But the point of a BDR is to blame the colleges. If the BDR is approved then the government can require the colleges to pay for those loans that get discharged via BDR. The government can also stop giving loans to those colleges that get dinged by BDR requests more than other colleges.
If you want to disincentivize colleges from pursuing providing idiotic degrees in fields that will not last, you should be for this plan, in my opinion.
From StudentAid.gov:
Reasons Borrowers Apply for Borrower Defense Discharge
Most borrowers file a borrower defense application because they believe that their school misled them or lied to them about something that was central to their decision to enroll. Under the borrower defense regulations, this is called a “misrepresentation.”
For example, some borrowers have qualified for borrower defense in the past when their school made false or misleading promises guaranteeing that they would get a job after graduation, earn a certain salary with their degree, or be able to transfer their credits to another school.
I would tell the person not to lie when filling out the application. But if a college said this degree was a good idea and you find out that it’s keeping you from being employed, you likely have a good case.
If you know someone who just got fired from a DEI position and find their degree useless after their college made promises that it would lead to a good paying career, suggest that they go to StudentAid.gov and apply for a Borrowers Defense to Repayment. What do they have to lose? A few hours of their time?
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An interesting and potentially useful perspective here. Except for one thing. It's hard to claim that these students were mislead because a lot of them indeed got high-paying jobs in the DEI scam. Now some of those woke privilege jobs have evaporated you can hardly turn round and blame the colleges.
This is an interesting concept, but if you’re going to include DEI degrees then you’re going to have to include all the other scam degrees which honestly are about 80% of them. Business development degree, biology, anthropology, and most art degree are also useless in the real world. That said if you’re going to do this, you should make the colleges pay for it and not the taxpayer. Most of us were smart enough not to get crap degrees.