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Academia Accountability: Oberlin College loses $11 MM verdict, punative damages to follow

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The verdict sends a strong message that colleges and universities cannot simply wind up and set loose student social justice warriors and then wash their hands of the consequences. In this case, a wholly innocent 5th-generation bakery was falsely accused of being racist and having a history racial profiling after stopping three black Oberlin College students from shoplifting. The students eventually pleaded guilty, but not before large protests and boycotts intended to destroy the bakery and defame the owners. The jury appears to have accepted that Oberlin College facilitated the wrongful conduct against the bakery.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/verdict-jury-awards-gibsons-bakery-11-million-against-oberlin-college/

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What I find really surprising is that anyone would pick a bakery to shoplift at. I won’t even touch the obvious jokes here (i.e. I guess he needed the dough). 

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There have been substantial problems with racism in Oberlin's recent past: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/everything-you-need-to-know-about-oberlin-colleges-race-prob Maybe that caused an overreaction by the school.

Boom goes the dynamite.

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42 minutes ago, SleepingGiantsFan said:

There have been substantial problems with racism in Oberlin's recent past: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/everything-you-need-to-know-about-oberlin-colleges-race-prob Maybe that caused an overreaction by the school.

Nice try, the shoplifting incident happened in November 2016.

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58 minutes ago, SleepingGiantsFan said:

There have been substantial problems with racism in Oberlin's recent past: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/everything-you-need-to-know-about-oberlin-colleges-race-prob Maybe that caused an overreaction by the school.

Universities have no business rallying students like this.  Their job is to educate.  This garbage college is reaping what it sows.  There is a separate punitive damages hearing coming up and I hope this $11M turns into $50M.  This is BS.

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4 hours ago, NorCalCoug said:

Universities have no business rallying students like this.  Their job is to educate.  This garbage college is reaping what it sows.  There is a separate punitive damages hearing coming up and I hope this $11M turns into $50M.  This is BS.

At which point a judge will reduce it to 10.

Fun fact: Oberlin students have also battled cultural appropriation in their dining halls: 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/the-food-fight-at-oberlin-college/421401/

https://nypost.com/2015/12/18/pc-students-at-lena-dunhams-college-offended-by-lack-of-fried-chicken/

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On 6/9/2019 at 6:15 PM, I am Ram said:

At which point a judge will reduce it to 10.

Fun fact: Oberlin students have also battled cultural appropriation in their dining halls: 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/the-food-fight-at-oberlin-college/421401/

https://nypost.com/2015/12/18/pc-students-at-lena-dunhams-college-offended-by-lack-of-fried-chicken/

Or it will get bumped to $44MM...  I can’t think of a more fitting punishment for the SJW college.

 

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SJWDS in full force here I see

On 12/1/2016 at 12:26 PM, WyomingCoog said:

I own a vehicle likely worth more than everything you own combined and just flew first class (including a ticket for a 2 1/2 year old), round trip to Las Vegas and I'm not 35 yet. When you accomplish something outside of finishing a book, let me know. When's the last time you saw a 2 year old fly first class in their own seat? Don't tell me about elite.  

28 minutes ago, NorCalCoug said:

I’d happily compare IQ’s with you any day of the week.

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2 hours ago, NorCalCoug said:

Or it will get bumped to $44MM...  I can’t think of a more fitting punishment for the SJW college.

 

I don't think that ever happens. Plaintiffs rarely get what the jury awards them initially. 

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1 hour ago, I am Ram said:

I don't think that ever happens. Plaintiffs rarely get what the jury awards them initially. 

True, but I hope the final amount inflicts enough pain to change behavior.

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On 6/15/2019 at 8:57 AM, I am Ram said:

I don't think that ever happens. Plaintiffs rarely get what the jury awards them initially. 

Yeah, this will be reduced substantially  Still, Oberlin was very very wrong on this.

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I have no +++++en idea why @pokebball laughed at my post.  

You guys whine about Trump Derangement Syndrome.  I think Poke, @Joe from WY, and a few others here have "Orange Derangement Syndrome."

I didn't post one word all weekend, and within literally 40 seconds of my first post this morning, Poke and Joe from WY were RIGHT on top of it.  I swear you guys want my cock SOOOOO bad.

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3 minutes ago, Orange said:

I have no +++++en idea why @pokebball laughed at my post.  

You guys whine about Trump Derangement Syndrome.  I think Poke, @Joe from WY, and a few others here have "Orange Derangement Syndrome."

I didn't post one word all weekend, and within literally 40 seconds of my first post this morning, Poke and Joe from WY were RIGHT on top of it.  I swear you guys want my cock SOOOOO bad.

Get off your knees, I know when I've been licked. 

For a guy who has me on ignore, you sure think about me an awful lot. I like Tulips btw. So send those next time. 

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22 minutes ago, Orange said:

I have no +++++en idea why @pokebball laughed at my post.  

You guys whine about Trump Derangement Syndrome.  I think Poke, @Joe from WY, and a few others here have "Orange Derangement Syndrome."

I didn't post one word all weekend, and within literally 40 seconds of my first post this morning, Poke and Joe from WY were RIGHT on top of it.  I swear you guys want my cock SOOOOO bad.

Allow me to offer some context for you my friend.  You post this morning in response to one of my posts.  I offer a follow up to your morning post.  One of us sees that as an ongoing discussion between the two of us.  The other of us wants to see it as an infatuation.

I'd like to suggest that you put me on ignore again.  We don't want your self worth wrongly inflated now, do we?

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21 hours ago, pokebball said:

Allow me to offer some context for you my friend.  You post this morning in response to one of my posts.  I offer a follow up to your morning post.  One of us sees that as an ongoing discussion between the two of us.  The other of us wants to see it as an infatuation.

I'd like to suggest that you put me on ignore again.  We don't want your self worth wrongly inflated now, do we?

You didn't answer why you laughed at my post.  That's not continuing a discussion, that's your rabid infatuation with me.  Period.

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