Media Coverage of Gibson's Verdict Misses the Mark

Oberlin Review ^ | June 18, 2019 | Editorial

[xxqqzz]

Posted in entirety. A different point of view from FR, emphasizing free speech, racial profiling, unfairly blaming the college, and the allegedly biased police report. Gives an idea of the mentality of some Oberlin students.

[RossA]

I would have thought Oberlin’s best defense was to deny any involvement with the student-led protest. Instead, they are taking an anti-police, anti-Gibson stance. This will not help them avoid paying damages. I would bet their lawyers are furious at this statement.

[Feckless]

You got caught being Social Justice Nazis, trying to justify crimes, using race as both a crutch and a weapon and 12 Normal American Citizens broke it off in your ass.

Quit being whiny little bitches and PAY the man.

[ifinnegan]

This is big on rhetoric but scant on fact.

And the rhetoric isn’t even internally consistent.

“It’s true that Raimondo was at the protests, but she was simply attempting to ensure the safety of all involved — as dictated within the responsibilities of her job.”

This statement is made after saying the students are autonomous.

[TheConservator]

The first point is irrelevant. The jury’s findings are based on witnesses who testified, not on the police report.

The second point is flat out false. The jury was presented testimony that Raimondo was egging the students on, handing out their flyers, etc.

The third point is ludicrous. The college and its students were falsely trying to paint Gibsons and its employees as racist; the evidence presented at trial pointed overwhelmingly to the contrary.

Suck it up, Oberlin. Learn something instead of putting your head in the sand. And PAY UP!

[tennmountainman]

Show the Gibson’s the MONEY.

[Just mythoughts]

Anyone think for a second that this college would allow free speech for MAGA? These people are spoiled rats. The college did in fact try and take down this place of business. WHY, because some of their students went to the business and decided they were so special they could take items instead of paying for the items. None of this had anything to do with this notion of ‘free speech’...

[rockrr]

Interesting.

“Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life”

[kiryandil]

Note that the apologist omitted this from his/her propaganda piece:

In August, the [shoplifting] students admitted their guilt and also agreed that the store had not engaged in racist conduct in their arrest.

Liars by omission...

[Rebelbase]

““It’s true that Raimondo was at the protests, but she was simply attempting to ensure the safety of all involved — as dictated within the responsibilities of her job.””

Does Raimondo go on Spring Break with the students to make sure they don’t drink too much?

[Robert DeLong]

Even the three blacks who were charged with theft and assault, admitted that Gibson’s was not being racist. So that charge is refuted by the perps themselves.

[John Milner]

Also, them standing behind the ‘free speech’ defense when the college is famous for banning anyone not to the left of Joseph Stalin politically - needs to be mentioned.

[madprof98]

Finally, many journalists and commentators — although not all — appear to believe that the salient question at hand is whether the three students involved in the initial altercation were actually guilty of shoplifting . . .

Why, how could something like that be relevant? I mean, isn't it just the way things are done in social justice land?

[Drango]

the rights of students across the country — to identify injustice and speak out firmly against it.

They are retarded. There was NO INJUSTICE. A clerk caught a shoplifter and there was a scuffle. The false narrative that Gibson's was racist was the injustice.

[R_Kangel]

[Bubba_Leroy]

... many people have bought into the narrative presented in court by Gibson’s’ attorneys that the College acted as a ‘Goliath’ in encouraging students to crush a small, locally-owned family business.

Many people, including the twelve jurors who heard all of the evidence.

[wetgundog]

Oberlin, Eat It and Like It.

[Chainmail]

" we hope that Oberlin students are not discouraged from continuing the kind of sustained and brave activism that emerged following the initial November 2016 incident at Gibson’s"

Oh sure - just keep harassing legitimate businesses and inventing "racism" incidents and you and your college will pay more money until you finally go broke.

Squirrely Leftists...

[Chewbarkah]

Every point they try to make in the article could have been, and almost assuredly was, brought up at the trial. Jury didn’t buy it. So sad. If Oberlin wants to appeal, it will have to be on other grounds than this whinefest.

[econjack]

This just confirms my suspicions about Oberlin and its students. They all view themselves as special and should be treated differently, from shop lifting to the College taking an active role in punishing the victims of the crime.

More evidence: The students have now petitioned the College to do away with midterm exams and that no student should get less than a C in a class.

Spoiled brats all...including the Administration.