The famously liberal Oberlin College and its vice president and dean of students are now facing a libel and slander suit for allegedly supporting a protest campaign against a local business. In a series of protests that included hundreds of students, faculty and staff, the bakery was accused of being “racist” for seeking to prosecute three students — one of whom is white — for shoplifting, a crime for which all three pleaded guilty.
In a story that, as HotAir’s Jazz Shaw puts it, is yet another example of a business bearing the brunt of social justice warrior hysteria for being “insufficiently ‘woke,'” local bakers became the target of a protest for supposedly being “racist” because they were pressing charges for a violent shoplifting incident to which all three culprits ended up pleading guilty. Despite the accusations being wholly unfounded, the massively expensive college, and particularly the vice president, allegedly supported student-led efforts to damage the bakery’s business.
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