
If there is one thing you learn about at Oberlin, the notoriously progressive liberal-arts college, it is surely privilege: white privilege, hetero privilege, gender privilege — you name it.
Now, an Ohio jury has identified an entirely new variety — Woke Privilege — and resolved to hold accountable people who believe they are protected by it.
The jury handed down a staggering $11 million verdict against Oberlin for a smear campaign against a local business and awarded another $33 million in punitive damages to the targeted mom-and-pop store, Gibson’s Food Market and Bakery.
The damages will certainly be Âreduced, but the verdict is a shot across the bow of prestigious institutions tempted to join social-justice mobs.
Oberlin thought that it could Âdefame Gibson’s as racist with impunity, that the hot-house rules of campus politics applied (i.e., anyone accused of racism is ipso facto guilty of racism) and that no one would question its superior righteousness and cultural power vis-à -vis a mere local business.
In other words, Oberlin counted on its Woke Privilege to give it the latitude to discount reason, evidence and fair play.
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Good. Stomp on these wanna-be Red Guard fools hard and make them face the consequences of their rhetoric.