Thirty-Three Million Dollars? Oberlin Can Afford It

Oberlin College in Ohio has an endowment of just under 900 million dollars.  The college is going to need those funds to pay the $33 million that an Ohio jury just awarded a local bakery for the participation in a bogus attack by Oberlin administrators on the bakery.  A few years ago, some African Americans were apprehended by the bakery staff for shoplifting inside the store.  The shoplifters first claimed that they had been targets of racial discrimination, but they quickly changed their story and admitted that they had been shoplifting and that the staff actually treated them with respect.  It didn't matter.  The social justice warriors at the very liberal campus sprang into action and organize protests outside the bakery.  Then the Oberlin administration got into the act.  It promoted and prolonged the protests which resulted in severe damage to the bakery.  Even after the bakery owners told the college that the shoplifters admitted that there had been no racial discrimination directed towards them, the college administration continued promoting the protests and attacks on the bakery.  The bakery sued Oberlin for the acts undertaken by its administration, and the jury has now spoken.

This is a wonderful outcome.  The far left social justice warriors who permeate college campuses need to understand that society as a whole will not kowtow to them the way that the universities do.  It's fine to use free speech, but attacks are unacceptable.  Even more important, these leftists have to learn that while they are free to say what they want, spreading obvious lies about their target may well cost them in a court of law.