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.
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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.
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
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.
"Social Justice" - power for loser brats of corrupt 'elites'...
“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.
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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.
“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.
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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.
Doesn't get much more absurd than this...
There will beno more proofreading.
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.
It’s called F.I.R.E.
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.
Here’s one from six years ago: http://michellemalkin.com/2013/08/22/see-i-told-you-so-oberlin-hoax-confirmed/
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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.”
Not True. Over half of Harvard's Freshman class is minority with 14.6% black.
Juries are the heart of Common Law.
The greatest, and most ignored, gift of England to the world!
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