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Oberlin’s cultural rot went far beyond SJW politics into a ‘culture of theft’
American Thinker ^ | June 17, 2019 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/17/2019 6:06:55 AM PDT by artichokegrower

In the wake the landmark $44 million verdict against Oberlin College for defaming a 5-generation family business, information is coming to light about the behavior of students and administrators at that once-respectable institution that is simply appalling. As throughout the entire story, Legal Insurrection is owed a huge thank-you for its deep dive into the evidence.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; education; leftismoncampus; liberalfascism; oberlin; ohio
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To: Liz

Oberlin mounted one of the most stupid legal tactics ever attempted. .....
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Hard to believe they are educators. And could not see the forest for the trees.
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It’s clear that they are SJW indoctrinators and not educators. It’s also clear that a high IQ and common sense are not essential qualities for these SJW idiots; they are indeed STUPID.


21 posted on 06/17/2019 7:03:39 AM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: artichokegrower

I still say we need to take a good hard look at the money we as taxpayers give to these now criminal subversive operations. Like
planned parent hood we are subsidizing institutions and businesses WE don’t agree with or support. We need to target our reps and be the boil on their a##es


22 posted on 06/17/2019 7:04:28 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: artichokegrower

In a sane world—in America before large swaths sank into the mass psychosis of the decadence of Western Civilization—a student guilty of shoplifting would be expelled from school.


23 posted on 06/17/2019 7:13:50 AM PDT by Savage Beast (When the Light of Truth threatens to expose corruption, it's the corrupt who try to extinguish it.)
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To: artichokegrower
These students, whose yearly costs of attending Oberlin (>$70k) far exceeds the average income of the surrounding community (<$55k), care not a whit about the people who work long and hard to serve them. All the time pretending that they are interested in “social justice.”

"Social Justice" - power for loser brats of corrupt 'elites'...

24 posted on 06/17/2019 7:16:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (Send Congo (Ebola) illegals to Martha's Vineyard - let them kill liberals "elites" first...)
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To: artichokegrower

“The language “archaic chase-and-detain” means that Oberlin’s position is that Gibson’s and other merchants should just accept their role as prey and take it.”

That’s Leftist philosophy in a nutshell.

See my tag line.

L


25 posted on 06/17/2019 7:19:06 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: artichokegrower

It’s hilarious. The whole thing. Imagine two narratives.

1. Kid shoplifts. Gets caught. School punishes student with stern warning, requirement to pay for stolen goods, and kicks him our for a semester.

2. Kid shoplifts. Gets caught. School takes kid’s side and says it’s wrong to tackle shoplifters and store must have been racist to have even sussed out that the kid was a criminal and furthermore we encourage everyone to boycott the store.

Oberlin chooses option 2. Insanity.


26 posted on 06/17/2019 7:30:50 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: CondorFlight

“Personal property is an expression of your “self”. If you lose the right to personal property (and theft is OK), then you lose a part of your individuality.”

Well put. When one works to attain property and it’s stolen from you the thief has literally stolen a piece of your life. The time you spent working to get that property can never be gotten back. So unless the thief in question returns it and then works to make amends for the transgression the world is out of balance.

That’s why thievery is so very very wrong. It’s not the thing that’s stolen that’s important. It’s the time out of the victims life that is.

L


27 posted on 06/17/2019 7:31:20 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: artichokegrower; Liz

Great to see this “culture of theft” is being exposed.

The picture is much clearer now. The Gibson Bakery was standing up for the entire small business community when it stopped the thieves from shop-lifting.

And why need to steal anyway? If parents are paying $70,000 a year to have their student attend, why not call Mommy and Daddy to send a check?

I’m happy to see Oberlin’s fraudulent culture and administration is being exposed. There’s a lot more corrupt auniversities like them who need to be drawn out.


28 posted on 06/17/2019 7:33:18 AM PDT by poconopundit
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To: Liz
Would Oberlin have defended student shoplifters if they had been white? Not a chance. LOL - what an embarrassment for the phony 'elites'...

Doesn't get much more absurd than this...

29 posted on 06/17/2019 7:40:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Send Congo (Ebola) illegals to Martha's Vineyard - let them kill liberals "elites" first...)
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To: BillyBonebrake

There will beno more proofreading.


30 posted on 06/17/2019 7:57:24 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: artichokegrower

I wasn’t aware that the shoplifters were even Oberlin students. I just assumed they were run-of-the-mill street thugs and the SJ Oberlin glommed on to the situation to make a statement.

In any case, I’m glad they ruled in favor of Gibson. I don’t think the college will suffer, even though thet’re crying poor-mouth. I think Tucker said they have about $1 BILLION stashed away, so let them whine. Let them pay, and then whine.


31 posted on 06/17/2019 8:10:42 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Every illegal alien is a probably dirty bomb in biological warfare against the U.S.)
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To: allendale

It’s called F.I.R.E.


32 posted on 06/17/2019 9:11:28 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Presumably, they give a lot of need scholarships to minorities. I read that Oberlin is 15% black, which is much higher than most elite schools, even though underrepresented minorities are given preference.

I wonder if white students had shoplifted and beat up the store owner trying to stop them whether they would have been in trouble with the school. That kind of behavior has to be pretty unusual for students at most elite colleges.


33 posted on 06/17/2019 10:16:57 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: Liz

Here’s one from six years ago: http://michellemalkin.com/2013/08/22/see-i-told-you-so-oberlin-hoax-confirmed/


34 posted on 06/17/2019 2:01:02 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

t/y


35 posted on 06/17/2019 2:36:35 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: artichokegrower

Story says Oberlin did not want police records revealed, because racial makeup of arrestees was included— that showed majority of shoplifters from 2011-2017 were Oberlin students.

Of those, the majority of arrestees were ...white! Reflecting local demographics!

So IOW, Oberlin wants to smear the business with accusations of racism, while suppressing discovery of the actual FACTS to the contrary!

White leftists are racist; they maintain the bizarre notion that blacks are incapable of abiding by the same moral & legal standards as light-skinned people, therefore, their irresponsible behavior should be accommodated as just part of their “culture.”


36 posted on 06/17/2019 4:31:01 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the Future, brother. It is murder.. --L. Cohen)
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To: xxqqzz
Oberlin is 15% black, which is much higher than most elite schools...

Not True. Over half of Harvard's Freshman class is minority with 14.6% black.

37 posted on 06/17/2019 7:49:03 PM PDT by econjack
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To: artichokegrower

Juries are the heart of Common Law.
The greatest, and most ignored, gift of England to the world!


38 posted on 06/17/2019 7:58:41 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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