Quote:Dumbass Oberlin College Students Cost The School $33 Million For Destroying A Family Owned Business They Called Racist After A Whiny Bitch Got Caught Stealing



Oberlin College's most famous alumni is Lena Dunham. Nuff said. The private Ohio school also made headlines when their students demanded that the college pay them to protest, protested over cultural appropriation when they served Asian food and fried chicken in the cafeteria, and demanded that the college replace grades below C with a "conversation" with the professor because Karl Marx was racist.

Well, they're back in the news again, and this time it's because a local business called Gibson's Bakery hit back against an Oberlin College outrage mob that falsely labeled them as racist and destroyed their business (which had been around since 1885), and now the college has to pay them up to $33 million:

An Ohio jury has ordered Oberlin College to pay $11 million to a bakery which said it was libeled and wrongfully accused of racially profiling students. Next Tuesday there will be a separate punitive damages hearing which could be a double award (meaning tripling the $11 million to $33 million). According to our reporter in the Courtroom, the jury awarded $11 million. Here are the details: Allyn W. Gibson was awarded $3 million, David Gibson $5.8 million, Gibson Bros. $2,274,500. The case stems from the November 2016 arrests of three black Oberlin students at Gibson's Bakery and market near the college's campus in Oberlin, Ohio. One student, Jonathan Aladin, was accused of attempted robbery for allegedly trying to "steal wine or otherwise illegally obtain wine" from the bakery, according to a defamation lawsuit. He would eventually confess in a written statement to buying alcohol illegally. Two other suspects, Cecelia Whettston and Endia J. Lawrence, were arrested and accused of misdemeanor assault, court documents state.

After that, Oberlin staff members tried to discredit the family-owned bakery, the lawsuit says. Oberlin College staff "including deans and professors and students engaged in demonstrations in front of Gibson's Bakery following the arrests of the three students," the lawsuit stated. The suit also said Oberlin Vice President and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo and other college staff members "handed out hundreds of copies" of a flier to the community and the media stating that Gibson's Bakery and its owners racially profiled and discriminated against the three students.

The court documents include a copy of the flier, which included the words "DON'T BUY." "This is a RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION," the flier read, according to the lawsuit. The flier also listed 10 of the bakery's competitors and urged customers to shop there instead.

Then in November 2016, the lawsuit stated, Oberlin College said it severed its business ties with Gibson's Bakery. The shop had provided baked goods for the school's dining services through a third-party company. While those business ties were reinstated three months later, the shop had already suffered severe consequences, the suit said. The combined effects of the "defamation, boycotts, demonstrations, and refusal to do business with Gibson's Bakery was having a devastating effect on Gibson's Bakery and the Gibson family," the lawsuit stated.











Oops!

This is so satisfying in so many ways. I've said it before and I'll say it again -- there is nothing worse than being labeled as a racist in 2019. You're better off being known as the guy who diddles the neighborhood kids, because at least he has a "disease." Once the mob has arbitrarily decided that you're a racist they will not stop until you are destitute. They've been doing this for years, a lot of the time on college campuses, and someone finally had the balls to stand up and say enough is enough.

This is Elijah Aladin, the student who got caught stealing two bottles of wine, hit the clerk's cell phone out of his hand when the clerk attempted to take a picture of him, and then assaulted him, along with two female students, inside and outside the store.



He of course played the "I'm an oppressed and marginalized person" card and got everyone at the school riled up that he was the victim here. According to his LinkedIn bio he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, a very expensive boarding school.

 

Very oppressed.

Now watch the body cam footage from the incident, and see for yourself what the whiniest bitch in the history of imaginary oppression did when the cops got there and found him on top of the clerk.









The best part was around 1:50 when he says, "they're going to kill me," and the white savior lady urging the cops not to arrest him says, "No, he will not kill you." Spit out my coffee at that one.

"Why do you think you're going to get killed?"

"Because I'm scared of police! I'm a black man in custody of police."

"Well I haven't hurt anyone in my life."

"I'm soo scared!!"

Either he's so sheltered and brainwashed that he believes that cops automatically kill every black person they arrest, or he's been trained to never take personal responsibility, blame other people for his own failures, and always play the race card when in doubt. I'm going with the latter.

That spoiled, rich, privileged little shitstain, is everything that is wrong with victimhood culture today. He tried to steal from a local family owned business that's been there since 1885. He then assaulted the guy who he was stealing from, at a store where margins are probably razor thin. After being arrested he acted like he was the victim and asked why the store owner wasn't arrested for defending his property and himself. And instead of the college expelling three ungrateful brats who attacked an institution that has been a business partner of the college for decades, they paid for their lawyers and led a protest outside of the business.

Of course it didn't help the school for the lawsuit when all three of the defendants plead guilty, and issued strongly worded statements saying that Gibson's wasn't racist, and that the students were in the wrong.



Here's video from a day of the protests. Lots of white guil[t] laden 19 year old white kids feeling good about themselves:











Feelin cute. Might destroy a family owned business and in turn cost my college $33 million in order to feel good about myself later. IDK.

Almost every kid the reporter from a MSM outlet tried to interview said no. That about sums up how stupid these idiots are. They're really good at writing "black lives matter" on a cardboard sign, but when you ask them to actually articulate why they're protesting on behalf of three criminals none of them know what to say.

But those are just dumbass college kids, and that's the nature of the beast. The real problem here, just like at 99% of colleges in this country, are the adults who brainwash these kids to think like this, and then encourage them to act like this. And justice was served on Friday when Dean Meredith Raimondo was found guilty along with the school itself. According to witnesses she was at the protest and facilitated it, rather than being the adult and reminding the kids that Elijah Aladin is a thief, not a victim. We know this because a black employee at the store testified against her:

Clarence "Trey" James, an African-American who had worked at the store since 2013, first denied that any racism existed in either the store's treatment of its customers, or how he has been treated. "Never, not even a hint," James said. "Zero reason to believe, zero evidence of that."

James said he had moved to Oberlin from Cleveland to have a better family life for his young daughter. He is a single-father of a teenager, and he said that he and his daughter were invited over Dave Gibson's house for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.

James said he was working at the store during the protests and could see Raimondo directly outside the front door, as he was working the cash register near the front windows and store entrance. Raimondo has claimed she was merely at the protest because it was her administrative duty to oversee the safety of the students and to keep the event "lawful." She has repeatedly said she was not an "active participant."

But James said he saw Raimondo "standing directly in front of the store with a megaphone, orchestrating some of the activities of the students. It appeared she was the voice of authority. She was telling the kids what to do, where to go. Where to get water, use the restrooms, where to make copies."

The copy making was needed to get more flyers for the students to pass out. These flyers said Gibson's had a long history of racial profiling, had assaulted the shoplifting students, encouraged a boycott of Gibson's, and gave a list of other stores to shop with.

James said Raimondo was taking part in the distribution of these flyers. "She had a stack of them," James testified, "and while she was talking on the bullhorn, she handed out half of them to a student who then went and passed them out."







When you hire a woman who doesn't understand that she looks like last call trash at the Blarney when she wears a sleeveless dress knowing that she has a full tat on your left bicep, this is what happens.

Oh, and if you're gonna trash a locally owned business and might get sued because of it, you should probably make sure you don't use your school email address:

When Roger Copeland, an Oberlin College professor of theater and dance (he is "emeritus" status now) wrote a letter to the campus newspaper soon after the protests ended, and criticized how the school was treating Gibson's in the letter, Jones sent a text message in caps saying, "FUCK ROGER COPELAND."

"Fuck him," Raimondo responded in a message. "I'd say unleash the students if I wasn't convinced this needs to be put behind us."

"Fuck him." This woman is what happens when white trash gets a Masters Degree in social justice.

Other administrators called the police liars:

Jones responded that the "Gibsons' hands were not clean" and that the incident with Allyn D. Gibson was "not an isolated incident, but a pattern." He also said the police report on the incident was "bullshit."

While another one physically blocked someone from taking pictures of students protesting in a public area:

McDaniel said he started taking pictures with his cell phone, and a young man came up to him and started blocking his phone with flyers in his hand. McDaniel said he kept moving and the man moved with him, blocking his ability to take picture over and over. "I'm with the college," the man answered when the former Oberlin College police chief asked him why he was blocking his ability to take pictures. McDaniel testified he found out later the man hounding him over picture taking was Julio Reyes, associate director of the school's multi-resource center.

"I told him 'I'm going to just going to wait until your silly ass leaves and [I'll] start taking pictures again without you trying to block me,'" McDaniel testified. "He answered that he was going to come back when I wasn't looking and key my car."

The school did nothing when students published this hilarious op-ed in the school sanctioned newspaper, blaming the Gibson family for pursuing a lawsuit against a school that had caused them financial harm by ending a business relationship because they sided with the thief instead of the victim.

News of the lawsuit -- which is meant to bully and intimidate College students, faculty, and staff, and can be read in full on the Review's website -- was relayed to the College community almost exactly one year after students initiated a protest against Gibson's Bakery following a violent altercation at the store involving College students.

"When people stand up for themselves and call out my bullshit it's bullying."

In reading the legal documents filed by the Gibson family, it is clear that their intention is to provoke an explosive, emotional response from students.

"Holding people responsible for damages is provoking."

The documents also have racist undertones that further expose the core reasons for the lawsuit. The Gibsons have no interest in finding any resolution to this conflict -- instead, they seek to assert their prideful moral superiority over the College, which they view as biased and discriminatory.

"Due process is racist."

Didn't help that they praised the Dean being sued too:

We should also lend our support to Dean Raimondo, who works tirelessly to support students. Even when students do not agree with her, her compassion and commitment to us never wavers.

The school responded to the lawsuit by canceling their contract with the bakery, which made them look a million times worse to the jury.

Let this be a lesson to virtue signaling SJWs -- when you get woke, you go broke. The students in your school are powerless. Their protests mean nothing. They are gone after 3-4 years, but you and the local business have to keep a healthy relationship. Don't let some privileged queefs running up hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt put you in financial ruin because you're too gutless to stand up for them. Be the adult, expel kids who get arrested, and side with victims instead of criminals.

Quote:Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way
By Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor — 06/15/19 10:00 AM EDT

For many who lament the shift from academics to activism across college campuses in the United States, Oberlin College in Ohio is the equivalent of the "China syndrome" during nuclear accidents, a point where chain reactions become impossible to stop or control. Oberlin students often find new issues to protest, even on one of the most liberal campuses in the world, like objections to serving sushi as cultural appropriation. As on other campuses across the country, these protests are encouraged by an array of faculty members and ever accommodating administrators.

This week, however, the bill came due for Oberlin when a jury awarded over $11 million in damages to a family bakery for being defamed as racist by its college students and officials. That motion was later followed by a whopping $33 million punitive award. It is only the latest example of how faculty members and officials are driving their institutions toward financial and intellectual bankruptcy, thanks to their advocacy or acquiescence.

The latest controversy began with a shoplifting case. In 2016, an African American student named Jonathan Aladin was caught trying to steal a bottle of wine from Gibson's Bakery, which was established in 1885 and has been closely tied to the college for over a century. When the grandson of the owner tried to stop Aladin, a fight ensued and police were called. Aladin and two other students, Cecilia Whettstone and Endia Lawrence, were arrested. Students, professors, and administrators held protests, charging that the bakery was racist and profiled the three students.

Oberlin maintains in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson's Bakery "violently and unreasonably attacked" an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it. Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Police rejected claims of a racial motive and noted that, over a period of five years, 40 adults were arrested for shoplifting at Gibson's Bakery, but only six were African American. It also is not how the court viewed it. When prosecutors cut a plea deal to reduce the charge to attempted theft, a local judge refused. He said the plea deal appeared to be the result of a permanent "economic sanction" by the college in which the victim had little choice but to relent. Ultimately, all three students pleaded guilty.

The merits of the case did not seem to bother Oberlin officials or student protesters. Dean of students Meredith Raimondo reportedly joined the massive protests and even handed out a flier denouncing the bakery as a racist business. When some people contacted Oberlin to object that the students admitted guilt, special assistant to the president for community and government relations Tita Reed wrote that it did not change a "damn thing" for her. Reed also reportedly participated in the campus protests.

Other faculty members encouraged students who denounced the bakery. The chairman of Africana studies posted, "Very proud of our students!" Oberlin barred purchases from the bakery, pending its investigation into whether this was "a pattern and not an isolated incident" Raimondo also pressured Bon Appetit, a major contractor with the college, to cease business with the bakery. Reed even suggested that "once charges are dropped, orders will resume" and added that she was "baffled by their combined audacity and arrogance to assume the position of victim."

It would be a statement that came back to haunt the college, in seeking to avoid punitive damages by arguing that the financial loss was too great for a small school, a sentiment that escaped these officials in hammering a small bakery. Owner David Gibson had discussed the ruinous impact of the boycott with college president Marvin Krislov and Raimondo received little sympathy. He said the two officials demanded that the bakery not call police when students shoplifted for the first time. Gibson objected that his bakery loses a large amount of money to shoplifting and that the college was demanding the equivalent of a first time "shoplifter pass."

Not all Oberlin faculty members were silent in opposition to the boycott and protests. Theater professor Roger Copeland spoke publicly against the treatment of the bakery, but a livid vice president for communications Ben Jones responded to colleagues in a text message with an expletive against Copeland. Raimondo replied saying she would "unleash the students" if she was not convinced "this needs to be put behind us."

The Oberlin case creates a troubling precedent for other institutions in higher education. Students certainly have the right to protest, and their views of a business can be a matter of opinion. However, if colleges are subject to damages for protests, they could resume efforts to curtail free speech. But this case turned on the actions of key officials who were viewed by the jury as encouraging, if not leading, the attacks. The college will appeal and, at a minimum, the $33 million award will be reduced to a $22 million limit under state law. While this may have amounted to record punitive damages against a college for defamation, it is not that unique.

Across the country, academics have caused lasting damage to their institutions by failing to stand up to, or actively supporting, extreme demands for speech codes, limits on academic freedom, and tenure changes. In Washington, Evergreen State College faculty members supported students who mobbed biology professor Bret Weinstein in a disturbing confrontation outside his office. The result was a significant $500,000 settlement with Weinstein and a major decline in applications. The University of Missouri experienced a similar meltdown on campus after assistant professor Melissa Click led attacks on a student journalist during heated protests in 2015. The university sought to accommodate protesters as applications plummeted and entire dorms were closed.

Other colleges have been hit with damages from students denied basic due process rights after being accused of sexual assault or harassment. While such rulings are mounting across the country, officials continue to ignore them and refuse to allow minimal rights for accused students. An even greater cost of acquiescence can be seen in reduced academic quality. Students increasingly demand changes based solely on the race or gender of authors, like Yale University students objecting that a course on English classics only included white authors like William Shakespeare.

We are reaching a critical point in higher education in the United States where leaders are ceding control to a small group of activist students and faculty members. Too often, those challenges are met not with acts of conscience but with cowardice. Professors fear being labeled as either insensitive or racist for objecting to protests or changes on campus.
Meanwhile, the costs mount with no reflection from administrators. Even with $44 million in total damages, Raimondo remains dean of students, and the college remains unapologetic. Oberlin was founded in 1833 on the belief that it is "peculiar in that which is good." What happened at Gibson's Bakery was neither good for Oberlin nor for higher education.

Quote:June 17, 2019

An Expensive Lesson For Out Of Control Colleges In The U.S. - Oberlin College 'Gets Woke, Goes Broke' After College Switches From Education To Activism And Gets Slammed By A Jury With A $44 Million Lesson



By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

We at ANP have documented the antics going on at college campuses across the nation for years, where social justice warrior activism is not only out of control on the part of the students, but where educators and university administrations have allowed, and in many cases encouraged and joined student-led protests...... activism at the expense of basic education.

Examples include colleges now offering "social justice" courses, giving credits for political activism, allowing students to dictate institutional policy, and in many cases, professors that actively participate in planning and organizing protests and social justice warrior activism.

One prime example of the college professors and educators being as bad or even worse than the triggered student social justice warriors is the case of Eric Clanton, former Diablo Valley College philosophy professor joining an Antifa protest and smashed a bike lock over the heads of multiple Trump supporters.

As with the world of politics these days, any individual thought that does not fit the liberal mindset of the majority of professors and school officials, is received with howls of RACISM, and off and running the students, and some school faculty go to destroy anyone they have a problem with by any means necessary and suffering no consequences for the damage to those innocent of the charge, that were defamed, slandered and ridiculed.

Until now................




OBERLIN COLLEGE JUST LEARNED A $44 MILLION LESSON

Recently a jury awarded Gibson's Bakery $11 million in damages for being defamed as racist by Oberlin college students and officials, followed up by a whopping $33 million as a punitive reward, in a very expensive lesson about what happens when colleges shift from academics to activism.

Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, Jonathan Turley, explains the case against Oberlin succinctly:

Quote:The latest controversy began with a shoplifting case. In 2016, an African American student named Jonathan Aladin was caught trying to steal a bottle of wine from Gibson's Bakery, which was established in 1885 and has been closely tied to the college for over a century. When the grandson of the owner tried to stop Aladin, a fight ensued and police were called. Aladin and two other students, Cecilia Whettstone and Endia Lawrence, were arrested. Students, professors, and administrators held protests, charging that the bakery was racist and profiled the three students.

Oberlin maintains in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson's Bakery "violently and unreasonably attacked" an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it. Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Police rejected claims of a racial motive and noted that, over a period of five years, 40 adults were arrested for shoplifting at Gibson's Bakery, but only six were African American. It also is not how the court viewed it. When prosecutors cut a plea deal to reduce the charge to attempted theft, a local judge refused. He said the plea deal appeared to be the result of a permanent "economic sanction" by the college in which the victim had little choice but to relent. Ultimately, all three students pleaded guilty.

The trial lasted for days, so it is impossible to explain all the ins and outs, but the school was held legally accountable for the student protest because of internal communications exposed during the trial as one school official even said at one point she would "unleash the students," and multiple faculty and officials actively participated in the protest.

More from Turley on the context of that comment:

Quote:Not all Oberlin faculty members were silent in opposition to the boycott and protests. Theater professor Roger Copeland spoke publicly against the treatment of the bakery, but a livid vice president for communications Ben Jones responded to colleagues in a text message with an expletive against Copeland. Raimondo replied saying she would "unleash the students" if she was not convinced "this needs to be put behind us."

Legal Insurrection followed the case closely and in a long series of tweets (unrolled and on one page here) presented key portions of testimony with specifics that the jury heard, which obviously contributed to an unprecedented judgement against Oberlin College.

While the college continued to claim their officials were only present to keep an eye on the protest and students for safety purposes, that was directly contradicted by the fact that faculty members were seen handing out flyers for the protest that stated "[Gibson's] is a RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION," along with other evidence from the trial presented.




Related: Student journalist: Shoplifting at Gibson's Bakery was part of Oberlin College's "Culture of Theft"

Listed at number 10 on the 2019 list of most liberal colleges, Oberlin has a history of being "an insane asylum," with the school itself being called "a little to the left of Bernie Sanders" by The New Yorker back in 2016, showing that this type accountability has been a long time coming for them.





BOTTOM LINE - 'COLLEGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE HEARD YOU'

That quote was from Rachelle Zidar, attorney for Oberlin College, to the Ohio jury, when she said "Ladies and gentlemen, you have spoken. You have sent a profound message. We have heard you. Believe me when I say, 'Colleges across the country have heard you.'"

Let us hope they do hear them loud and clear, because while documenting how out of control college students have become across the nation, we have often noted that it is the school officials either refusing to put their foot down, or actively encouraging a daycare mentality at institutions that are meant to help prepare young women and men for life in the real world, and they are failing spectacularly.

Whether other colleges pay heed to the lesson the Ohio jury just offered, Oberlin apparently has learned nothing as the college remains unapologetic, and the faculty member listed on the lawsuit along with the college is still employed, even after the devastating testimony regarding her actions was exposed.

Quote:I'm an Oberlin Graduate. They Had It Coming.

Michelle Malkin / @michellemalkin / June 19, 2019

As a right-wing alumna of far-left Oberlin College, I have four words for the administration in response to last week's ground-breaking $11 million jury verdict in the defaming of humble Gibson's Bakery:

You had it coming.

I have five more words for Oberlin as arrogant college officials continue their obstinate war on the Gibson family even after the much-deserved courtroom defeat:

You still don't get it.

After the college sent out Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary Donica Thomas Varner's June 7 email to alumni disparaging the verdict and lying about the basis for the trial, the jury whacked Oberlin's calumnious crapweasels with an additional $33 million in damages caused by their libel, intentional interference with business and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Ironically, thanks to Big Business GOP-sponsored tort reforms in Ohio 15 years ago, the awards may be greatly reduced to the relief of the radically liberal college, as Legal Insurrection blogger and law professor William Jacobson points out.

Still, the jury's message to administrators who incited hatred against Gibson's is loud and clear: Stop the racial smears.

Because white townies are presumed guilty until proven innocent, minority students and their mentors leaped to protest alleged institutional racism by a bakery that has nobly and peacefully served and employed people of all races and backgrounds since 1885.

Social justice agitators attempted to turn three black student shoplifters into Rodney King-style martyrs and the white Gibsons into the Simi Valley police of Lorain County in late 2016.

In August 2017, after the SJW noise died down, the trio of grabby-handed students pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges ranging from attempted theft and aggravated trespassing to underage purchase of alcohol.

They acknowledged in statements that Gibson was within his right to detain shoplifters and all stated in court that Gibson's actions were not racially motivated.

But those admissions were small consolation to the Gibsons, whom the dean of students attacked publicly in knee-jerk protests immediately after the theft and whom other officials savaged privately in extensive, profanity-laced communications leading up to the bakery's lawsuit and trial.

Oberlin Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo put herself in the middle of the maelstrom, complete with bullhorn and flyers declaring Gibson's to be a "RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION."

Oberlin VP of communications Ben Jones lambasted the bakers: "F-- em ...they've made their own bed now."

And special assistant to the president Tito Reed condemned the Gibsons' "combined audacity and arrogance to assume the position of victim" as the college sought to pressure the family into exempting all student shoplifters from criminal prosecution in exchange for restoring canceled cafeteria contracts.

I received an even more defiant letter from Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar on June 14 vowing that "this is not the final outcome." Ambar warns of a "lengthy and complex legal process."

Indeed, I'm now hearing from infuriated Oberlin insiders this week that the college persists in treating the Gibson family horribly and refuses to end the horror show, all while blithely assuring alumni that "we value our relationship with the town and region that are our home."

Bull.

For decades, grievance-mongering Oberlin elites have bullied and defamed innocent white people without consequences in their multicultural Ohio enclave. False racial allegations and toxic identity politics are the bread and butter of Oberlin campus life.

I've documented multiple hoaxes, stoked by Oberlin's campus outrage industry, which have exploited fake hate by phantom white bigots to expand the affirmative action empire.

--Back in the 1990s, Asian American students claimed that a mysterious racist had spray-painted anti-Asian racial epithets on a campus landmark rock; they used the incident to clamor for more departmental hiring. The culprit was a warped Asian American student.

--Another Asian American student I knew accused a white library worker of racism after the poor staffer asked the triggered student to lower the blinds where she was studying.

--In spring 1990, two black female students baselessly accused David Gibson of bigotry after he told them they were not allowed to sit at an outside table because they hadn't purchased any food items from his store. The rule applied to everyone. The perpetually aggrieved students demanded an apology to the entire black student population.

--In 2013, hyped by the administration and power-seeking minority groups, Oberlin made international headline news for a "KKK sighting" that turned out to be a person walking around campus wearing a blanket.

Oberlin alum Beth Kontrabecki Walters summed it well for me in her reflections on campus life and the Gibson's verdict:

Quote:What was once considered a forward-thinking and prestigious institution has now become the poster child for intolerant, myopic crybabies. Oberlin should not appeal this decision. ...The multimillion-dollar reward to Gibson's is the public's way of sending a message; it's high time these insulated left-wing incubators put an end to the out-of-control politically correct culture. ... They made an example of Oberlin, and while I agree with the jury completely, as an alum, it is extremely embarrassing nonetheless.

Instead of reexamining its fundamental contempt for Midwest family values, entrepreneurship, the presumption of innocence, and the truth about its racial hucksterism, however, Oberlin recently announced the appointment of a new "Multicultural Resource Center" director focused on nominating future speakers for the college's segregated black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ students graduation ceremonies and advancing the "advocacy, equity, and belonging for marginalized students."

In other words: More of the same old toxic stew of anti-white activism masquerading as "education" that landed Oberlin in such humiliating legal trouble in the first place.

The jury voted. Now it's time for more parents, alumni, and donors of ideological insane asylums like Oberlin to vote with their own feet and pocketbooks.

Defund the divisive defamers of American higher education. It's the only way they'll learn.