Woke apocalypse: the Oberlin College suit"If there is one thing you learn about at Oberlin, the notoriously progressive liberal-arts college, it is surely privilege: white privilege, hetero privilege, gender privilege — you name it.
Now, an Ohio jury has identified an entirely new variety — Woke Privilege — and resolved to hold accountable people who believe they are protected by it.
The jury handed down a staggering $11 million verdict against Oberlin for a smear campaign against a local business and awarded another $33 million in punitive damages to the targeted mom-and-pop store, Gibson’s Food Market and Bakery.
...Its dean of students, Meredith Raimondo, formerly the special assistant to the president for diversity, equity and inclusion (of course), joined the protesters with a bullhorn. She helped distribute flyers condemning Gibson’s and calling for a boycott: “This is a RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION.”
Students made copies of the defamatory flyers in the music conservancy offices, where the school bought them pizza and beverages, and got credit for participating in the demonstrations.
The school ended its long-time business with Gibson’s, and for good measure, the head of Oberlin’s Department of Africana Studies commented on Facebook: “Their food is rotten, and they profile black students.”
Ho-hum, you might say, just another reputation casually and arbitrarily destroyed in 21st-century America.
But Gibson’s refused to accept the blow to its standing and bottom line and sued..."
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