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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]99 percent of the people opining on this have absolutely no idea what actually went down.  (Much like the banh mi story that conservatives freaked out about, which turned out to be completely anodyne and unremarkable.)  Oberlin is a very good school that produces some amazing graduates.  The fact that the administration mishandled some aspects of the lawsuit isn't even newsworthy except to conservatives trying to cherry-pick examples of a preset narrative.  It's not going to hurt employment prospects for grads, because most employers DO NOT CARE about stupid crap like this.     [/quote]

X a million, all of this.

But, hey, this thread gives a certain segment the opportunity to express faux outrage and use the word "woke" today. So, I guess this is a good day for them. [/quote]

It's not that complicated. The owner of the bakery called the cops on three shoplifters who happened to be black, and an Oberlin faculty member organized a student boycott that sunk a family business, defaming that business for being racist. Now they have to pay. There have to be consequences for reflexively slandering people. Now, Oberlin can claim that $36M is too much, but if you honestly believe that a company isn't responsible for its employees' actions while acting as employees, then I don't know what to say.[/quote]

You're rehashing the alleged facts. Which has nothing to do with the post you're responding to (i.e., effect of the lawsuit on school and grads). Thus, proving my point about providing a place for faux outrage.

LBH, you don't REALLLLY care about the facts. But, just like trying to stick to a "woke" high academic school. We get it. Trust me.[/quote]

DP.  Adjudicated facts  - not “alleged.”    Be honest - this was execrable behavior and that the admin did not recognize that or refused to ignore it reveals a slavish desire to “virtue signal” rather than actually be virtuous.[/quote]

As if relying on tropes like "virtue signal" isn't bad enough you go and use "slavish" in this way! It's just amazing to me how language reveals your underlying world view. [/quote]

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