I was going to include this story in Shorts but it really warrants a separate, more in-depth post ~ Oberlin College hit with maximum PUNITIVE DAMAGES (capped at $22 million by law) in Gibson’s Bakery case.
 
Until a few days ago I hadn’t even heard about this crazy lawsuit. Legal Insurrection was really the only source reporting on it, but they had extensive coverage (HERE).
 
 
It seems back on November 9th, 2016, a small 5th-generation bakery store in Oberlin, OH called the police on a shoplifter, who then proceeded to beat the crap out of one of the elderly owners – who also had the misfortune of being white. Naturally, because they aren’t color-blind, the Black-Lives-Mattter/ SJW coalition saw only skin pigmentation and went ballistic over the event. The college, no longer able to discern right from wrong, joined in the persecution. Thankfully, justice prevailed in the end ~

Oberlin College tried to sacrifice a beloved 5th-generation bakery, its owners, and its employees, at the altar of political correctness in order to appease the campus ‘social justice warfare’ mob. The jury sent a clear message that the truth matters, and so do the reputations and lives of people targeted by false accusations, particularly when those false accusations are spread by powerful institutions.
 
Throughout the trial the Oberlin College defense was tone-deaf and demeaning towards the bakery and its owners, calling the bakery nearly worthless. The jury sent a message that all lives matter, including the lives of ordinary working people who did nothing wrong other than stop people from stealing.

 
This is almost unbelievable. But the whole case is a stark illustration of the hate that leftists seem to harbor for traditional American values, for people who disagree with them and for something as simple as the Golden Rule (treat people the way you want to be treated.)