I guess we could call it a minority opinion.JC, nothing you write has anything to do with defamation law.
I guess we could call it a minority opinion.JC, nothing you write has anything to do with defamation law.
The jury got it correct and there's more to come. What Oberlin faculty did was appalling. They even tried to persuade the bakery to drop the charges by reinstating their contract with the University. Fuck em.Punitive damage phase to start next Tuesday, which could increase the damages to $33 million.
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/...ns-bakery-11-million-against-oberlin-college/
I agreed with you up until your last sentence. It was the conservative news outlets like Fox News that broke this story while the liberal news outlets stayed relatively silent.The issue in this case was not the students’ protesting the bakery...nor was it their distributing pamphlets with lies accusing the bakery owners with a “long history of racism”.
The trouble for the college started when the Dean and other staff members unquestioningly supported all of these allegations from the students. They endorsed what the students were saying and participated in demonstrations where they handed out these same pamphlets.
If it was just the students demonstrating the bakery would never have bothered to sue them...none of them have any money anyway...but once the college staff joined in then the university became libel.
I think it’s the right decision. Oberlin College sounds like one of those Far Left colleges where students protest everything all the time and staff encourage it. There was apparently a protest against the company that runs the university cafeteria for culturally appropriating some other culture’s dishes (and making them poorly).
Some of these people need a dose of reality that you can’t just get outraged and talk shit about others without checking your facts.
This decision will destroy Right Wing fake news outlets.
Yeah, but that Chinatown store owner kept calling the guy Long Dong.Then there was that grocery store in Chinatown who caught a black guy shoplifting. (The police arrested the store owner.)