"But what's with the headline, Pauli? What the hell are you talking about?"
I got the nickname Wokappopotamus from this Rate My Professor's page for Meredith Raimondo. She is really the big, big loser of the moment, whether she would admit it or not. The nickname is from an obviously fake review, but oh well.
It was Meredith Raimondo who egged on students to slander and libel Gibson's with a bullhorn.
It was Meredith Raimondo who did all these things in her official capacity as a representative of Oberlin College, causing all the pain and suffering of the bakery owners and eventually causing the original judgment of $32 million to be leveled in the original 2019 case, and my guess is that it was Meredith Raimondo whose shear insolence and intransigence led to refusal to pay and appeals which increased the price tag by over $4.5 million.
There was never any evidence provided for this "long account of racial discrimination". And this was all occasioned on a refusal to admit that some kids are bad and sometimes they actually steal stuff.
It is highly unlikely that this will hurt Oberlin College financially that much which has an endowment of over $1 billion. But it is a huge victory for Truth, because now supporters of the Truth can point to this court victory and say "Look --we can still win in court." It is too bad it has to come to this, but here we are.
I would love to hear what certain people at Oberlin say about Meredith Raimondo behind closed doors. She basically came in and stood behind an obvious lie, and then she puts the school's name on the lie, and then she lied long-form, in court and she LOST the college $36+ million. What did it gain or would it have gained the school if the judge had ruled that no slander or libel occurred? I can only think of one thing, and that is respect among other liars, mostly of the liberal persuasion.
The award for my favorite summation of this hard-fought victory goes to Daniel Suhr in his article:
When universities cross that line to actively back such protests, they have to own the results. Responsible adults in charge of billion-dollar institutions should not lightly accuse beloved small businesses of racism because their spoiled students feel entitled to shoplift scot-free.
Amen, buddy.
Oberlin College was always a hot bed of radicalism. It supported the radical abolitionists who wanted to end slavery all at once, irregardless of the consequences that would happen in society when thousands of illiterate, uneducated, and unsocialized blacks were given their freedom, and didn't know what to do with it, once they got it.
ReplyDeleteNaturally, the OC folks thought the world of Reconstruction. They thought they were, along with all the other radicals in America, they were going to create a new South. They didn't understand the Southern whites were not ready to accept the negro as a social equal. They encouraged the government to force it on the South. Their foolish ideas caused resistance movements like the KKK and the Red Shirts to spring up to fight the Reconstruction. And sadly, race relations were strained for decades because of the zeal of Oberlin type radicals to make a better society, so called.
"zeal of Oberlin type radicals"
DeleteOf course this was not zeal at all, just Alinsky's tactics before Alinsky. Note how they choose to defend and promote not the hardworking, law-abiding non-white students but the criminals. Their ideology goes hand in hand with the actual, hardcore racists, and that is why it totally makes sense that they are all democrats.
I suspect (especially when reading some old works) that Alinsky's tactics have been around for as long as humanity has - he's just the most popular to distil and codify them.
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