Apparently you are now "racist" if you prosecute black shoplifters and assaulters

[Toni]

What the hell is Oglethorpe?

 

[Trausti]

This is awesome.

Could you imagine the post-judgment interest on the $33M verdict by now? Aw, man. Gonna get the sheriff to seize parts of college and put ‘em up for sale. Oberlin has the dumbest lawyers.

Interest rates have been extremely low over the past couple of years, so the post-judgment interest would not be much compared to the principal.

Judgment interest is determined by statute. It looks like it was 8% per annum in Ohio when the judgment was entered.

 

[ZiprHead]

This is awesome.

Could you imagine the post-judgment interest on the $33M verdict by now? Aw, man. Gonna get the sheriff to seize parts of college and put ‘em up for sale. Oberlin has the dumbest lawyers.

Now THAT'S an inflammatory headline.

 

[Politesse]

"Woke mob": some people who agree with an unpopular opinion.

 

[TSwizzle]

It appears that Meredith Raimondo ended up in my neck of the woods as VP for Student Affairs at Oglethorpe University.

These women always have the same look, like they all shop at the same charity store, a charity store that supports cats.

And it's "Dr." Raimondo

“Dr. Raimondo was a much beloved and highly respected teacher who taught queer studies and classes about AIDs and other health epidemics,” said Professor of Comparative American Studies Wendy Kozol.

$80k a year this place charges. Forgive student loans, LOL!

 

[thebeave]

It appears that Meredith Raimondo ended up in my neck of the woods as VP for Student Affairs at Oglethorpe University.

These women always have the same look, like they all shop at the same charity store, a charity store that supports cats.

And it's "Dr." Raimondo

“Dr. Raimondo was a much beloved and highly respected teacher who taught queer studies and classes about AIDs and other health epidemics,” said Professor of Comparative American Studies Wendy Kozol.

$80k a year this place charges. Forgive student loans, LOL!

My favorite part from the above article:

“Oberlin is a very special place — at its best, the model for what an engaged learning community can be,” Raimondo wrote. “I hope that students will continue to cultivate kindness, gratitude, and dialogue across difference as a part of their passionate commitments to social change — this is the kind of leadership the world desperately needs.”

Well, except for that little incident where we recklessly defamed and nearly destroyed a 130 year old historic business. But, uh, other than that...

 

[TSwizzle]

"Woke mob": some people who agree with an unpopular opinion.

This wasn't about opinions. This was a malicious and vicious mob that set out to destroy a small business owner using false allegations.

 

[Politesse]

"Woke mob": some people who agree with an unpopular opinion.

This wasn't about opinions. This was a malicious and vicious mob that set out to destroy a small business owner using false allegations.

Again, we have very different definitions of "mob". It's almost funny what very privileged people think oppression looks like. "Not being a customer of a local business" is not the same thing as "being in a mob". There were a few individuals involved in this case who did unfair and unwarranted things, but none of them were "in a mob" as near as I can see. And that you think this was the case indicates that you have never in your life been forced to face the terrifying real possibility of targeted mass violence.

 

[TSwizzle]

"Woke mob": some people who agree with an unpopular opinion.

This wasn't about opinions. This was a malicious and vicious mob that set out to destroy a small business owner using false allegations.

Again, we have very different definitions of "mob". {snip} There were a few individuals involved in this case who did unfair and unwarranted things, but none of them were "in a mob" as near as I can see.

"mob" "rabble rousers" "assholes" call them what you will but I will call them an organized mob of individuals who were trying to destroy a small business owner.

And that you think this was the case indicates that you have never in your life been forced to face the terrifying real possibility of targeted mass violence.

What has mass violence got to do with it?

 

[TomC]

I wonder who does the hiring at Oglethorpe, and thought a race-baiting, trouble-making, $33m liability was a good fit for the college?

People who want to put Oglethorpe University on the map?

Depending on the area, she might have great credentials as well as name recognition to boot.
Tom

Raimondo is not the kind of 'name recognition' I would want if I were hiring.

You're probably unlikely to attend or donate to Oglethorpe University. Your opinion isn't even important to me, much less the administration of a university I've never heard of.

Believe it or not, your opinions on such matters a

"Woke mob": some people who agree with an unpopular opinion.

This wasn't about opinions. This was a malicious and vicious mob that set out to destroy a small business owner using false allegations.

Again, we have very different definitions of "mob". It's almost funny what very privileged people think oppression looks like. "Not being a customer of a local business" is not the same thing as "being in a mob". There were a few individuals involved in this case who did unfair and unwarranted things, but none of them were "in a mob" as near as I can see. And that you think this was the case indicates that you have never in your life been forced to face the terrifying real possibility of targeted mass violence.

So your best reply is to quibble over exactly what constitutes a "mob"?

How about we discuss the term "Woke"? That seems more salient to me.

Would you consider the people who did things that were "unfair and unwarranted" Woke? I certainly do. People like that have a great deal to do with the connotations of the term, to me.
Tom

 

[Politesse]

"Woke mob": some people who agree with an unpopular opinion.

This wasn't about opinions. This was a malicious and vicious mob that set out to destroy a small business owner using false allegations.

Again, we have very different definitions of "mob". It's almost funny what very privileged people think oppression looks like. "Not being a customer of a local business" is not the same thing as "being in a mob". There were a few individuals involved in this case who did unfair and unwarranted things, but none of them were "in a mob" as near as I can see. And that you think this was the case indicates that you have never in your life been forced to face the terrifying real possibility of targeted mass violence.

So your best reply is to quibble over exactly what constitutes a "mob"?

How about we discuss the term "Woke"? That seems more salient to me.

Would you consider the people who did things that were "unfair and unwarranted" Woke? I certainly do. People like that have a great deal to do with the connotations of the term, to me.
Tom

If the issue of discussion isn't how the media turned an incident of unexciting town drama into a national story about mobs of bloodthirsty liberals hunting down poor innocent whites wherever they can find them, there's not much to discuss here.

"Woke" is a dumb word over-applied by paranoid conservatives as well.

 

[Toni]

As far as any of us know, the students who stole the liquor were only followed and caught because the storekeeper had a policy or at least a habit of more closely watching black people who looked like students more than white people who looked like students. I only mention this because this story brought to mind the time my kid came home from college, aghast and filled with stories about going to local businesses in the small town where he attended college with friends and noting that only the black kids were followed and scrutinized. Spending his adolescence forward in a virtually all white town, he had no idea.

I am noting that the usual posters have decided to insult a spokesperson for the college on the basis of her gender and her lack of, in their opinion, fashion forward enough wardrobe, using scare quotes to disrespect her degrees and honorifics and speculating about the number of cats she owns, as though that were a crime or indicative of anything at all or pertinent to the discussion at hand. Makes you wonder if these people actually graduated from high school.

 

[TomC]

As far as any of us know, the students who stole the liquor were only followed and caught because the storekeeper had a policy or at least a habit of more closely watching black people who looked like students more than white people who looked like students.

Might there be a rational reason for doing this?

I can think of some. Can you?
Tom

 

[TSwizzle]

I am noting that the usual posters Tswizzle have decided to insult a spokesperson for the college on the basis of her gender and her lack of, in their opinion, fashion forward enough wardrobe, using scare quotes to disrespect her degrees and honorifics and speculating about the number of cats she owns, as though that were a crime or indicative of anything at all or pertinent to the discussion at hand. Makes you wonder if these people actually graduated from high school.

You know it was me, why don't you just call it out as me? Guilty as charged. She fits a stereotype. Too many cats and no enough hair conditioner.

I graduated high school.

 

[Toni]

As far as any of us know, the students who stole the liquor were only followed and caught because the storekeeper had a policy or at least a habit of more closely watching black people who looked like students more than white people who looked like students.

Might there be a rational reason for doing this?

I can think of some. Can you?
Tom

Rational? No. Racist? Well, racism is a reason for a certain kind of person.

 

[Toni]

I am noting that the usual posters Tswizzle have decided to insult a spokesperson for the college on the basis of her gender and her lack of, in their opinion, fashion forward enough wardrobe, using scare quotes to disrespect her degrees and honorifics and speculating about the number of cats she owns, as though that were a crime or indicative of anything at all or pertinent to the discussion at hand. Makes you wonder if these people actually graduated from high school.

You know it was me, why don't you just call it out as me? Guilty as charged. She fits a stereotype. Too many cats and no enough hair conditioner.

I graduated high school.

I don’t necessarily pay attention to who an author of a post is.

Congratulations on earning your diploma!

 

[TomC]

Well, racism is a reason for a certain kind of person.

You mean people like me?
Tom

 

[Elixir]

Holy thread necromancy batman

X2
Unreal.

 

[Politesse]

Rational? No. Racist? Well, racism is a reason for a certain kind of person.

Such as people who racially profile, and think it's just a "rational" response to the dangerous presence of non-whites in historically white spaces.

 

[Toni]

Well, racism is a reason for a certain kind of person.

You mean people like me?
Tom

I have no idea. I don’t actually know you.