Posted on 06/23/2019 6:29:37 PM PDT by xxqqzz
>> In this difficult moment, we hope that Oberlin students are not discouraged from continuing the kind of sustained and brave activism that emerged following the initial November 2016 incident at Gibson’s... to identify injustice and speak out firmly against it. <<
Ummm... you might want to check with your lawyers about the wisdom of continuing to egg on your students to harass Gibson’s. The College now has to argue that the penalty was too large; combined with the college’s DAQ, this is pretty solid evidence that the penalties have been insufficient to correct the College’s behavior.
But in this case they told the truth. No one, on the left, cares to hear the truth, especially if it differs from their desire to lay the blame at the feet of others. Ergo it had to be racism even if they are told that is not the case by those directly involved.
Sure sound liable to me!
No, this article/column “gives an idea of the mentality of a majority of the Oberlin students”.
They are not there because they are open-minded, tolerant of other viewpoints, don’t believe that America is a majority racist society, that black suspects won’t lie, that playing the “race card” is an honest approach to discussing something, that all white police hate all blacks, etc.
Why would a Bakery pick a fight with its customers (i.e. students)? If you answer that honestly, then the whole other argument goes up in flames.
Something happened. Since I wasn’t there, I don’t know. If there were any surveillance films, I haven’t seen them. Hope there are.
Obviously the jury felt that the school’s administration exacerbated the problem and libeled the bakery. As for the guilt of the accused, that is another issue.
The news was not running racist stories against the accused because they are African Americans, based on a police report few outside the case ever read. Most of the media coverage of this story was after the verdict. The coverage before the verdict was about the lawsuit and college students protesting the bakery, not racist attacks the accused for being African American.
But if the College newspaper wants to fell better about impending budget cuts to pay for judgment against the school this way, that's their choice.
Bottom line the “kids” shoplifted and were caught. And then they attempted to blame it on race instead of criminal behavior. And the college joined right in with playing the race card against Gibsons.
The Oberlin Review is a student-run weekly newspaper at Oberlin College that serves as the official newspaper of record for both the College and the city of Oberlin, Ohio. It was first published in 1874, making it one of the oldest college newspapers in the nation.
Translation: We did NOT learn a single fkn thing.
This goes to my point that the modern left is totally recalcitrant and needs to be dealt with in the harshest manner possible.
Garbage.
And Oberlin’s liability insurer ain’t gonna cough up a dime.
Heh, heh.
Ain’t gonna hurt them much. Oberlin has nearly a bil dollars in assets.
I gathered from Legal Insurrection a few weeks ago, before the verdict, that those funds are pretty well dedicated as collateral for loans.
Oberlin is in a bad pinch.
“As for the guilt of the accused, that is another issue.”
If you are talking about the accused shoplifter, he and his female companions all plead guilty. That is omitted from this piece, because it argues against the “narrative” these lefty idiots are promulgating.
“...the modern left is totally recalcitrant and needs to be dealt with in the harshest manner possible.”
Correct.
If the black students had paid for the bottle of wine, none of this would have happened. The race baiters and college administrators have really turned logic and common sense on its head. I certainly hope the $33M punitive damages make colleges and universities rethink their socialist activism, but I doubt it will have an effect. I think it going to take a lot of jury decisions like this to improve the college culture.
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