Lies Are Damaging: False Racism Claim Cost College $36 Million

In 2016, a dispute between Gibson’s Bakery and Oberlin College made headlines across the country. The bakery, which had been a fixture in the Ohio town for over 100 years, was accused of racial profiling by a group of Oberlin College students. The college subsequently cut ties with the bakery, boycotting their products and accusing them of discrimination.

Three years later, the situation has finally come to a resolution. Gibson’s Bakery has been awarded $36 million in damages from Oberlin College, after a jury found the college liable for libel, interference with business relationships, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The incident that sparked the controversy occurred in November 2016, when a group of Oberlin College students attempted to shoplift from Gibson’s Bakery. The bakery’s owner, Allyn D. Gibson, and his son, who was working at the store at the time, confronted the students and called the police. The students were eventually arrested and charged with shoplifting.

However, instead of accepting responsibility for their actions, the students and their allies at Oberlin College accused Gibson’s Bakery of racial profiling and discrimination. The college then took steps to boycott the bakery, including sending out a mass email to students urging them to avoid the store.

Gibson’s Bakery, which has been owned and operated by the Gibson family for four generations, denied the accusations of discrimination and filed a lawsuit against Oberlin College. In 2019, the case went to trial, and a jury found in favor of the bakery.

The $36 million awarded to Gibson’s Bakery is intended to compensate the business for the harm it suffered as a result of Oberlin College’s actions. The bakery’s attorney stated that the damages awarded were “a clear message that Oberlin College cannot treat local businesses and their owners this way.”

This case serves as a reminder of the power of false accusations and the harm they can cause to individuals and businesses. It is crucial for individuals and institutions to carefully consider the consequences of their actions before making such accusations, and to ensure that they are acting on facts rather than emotions or biases.

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Displayguy

Problem is the offending students didn’t appear to be punished, only the school admin and taxpayers.

CharlieSeattle

The leftist students will make life hell for the bakery shop. The cowards will strike again!

David Barron

Perhaps it is time for the Regents of Oberlin college to turn an separate or dismiss those students and staff which promoted such racism and biggity. Then in an act of kindness all walk to the Gibson Bakery and buy what ever they have available.

Matt Underwood

I’m pleased that there are still some judges/justices in America to have the good sense to accept more of these libel cases, to instruct juries properly and fairly, and weigh the facts and evidence impartially, and rule justly. Oberlin College and every other little woke hive of smartmouth weenies and crybabies ABSOLUTELY deserve maximum justice returned to their doorstep, in a way that hurt$. PROBLEM IS, TAXPAYERS STILL FOOT THE BILL for these crappy elite propaganda mills.

Kurt

Good for them! If the students were actually shoplifting then what the Gibson’s store owners did was appropriate by detaining them. I hate when someone tries to play the “Black” card to get out of a crime they duly committed. Oberlin likely REALLY regrets the mistake they made now.

John

Nice Christmas present.

Kevin Stich

Woke goes badly for Oberlin. It is a good start. I saw the beginnings of Woke culture in 1970 while attending university. I disliked it then and I dislike it now.

ROND

I AM SO DAMN GLAD THE COLLEGE WAS “PENALIZED”. THEY SHOULD GO OUT OF BUSINESS, FOR THE STUPIDITY OF ACTUALLY BELIEVING A GROUP OF LIB STUDENTS YELLING “RACISM”, WHICH IS NOTHING BUT JUST ANOTHER LIB SLOGAN TO GET THEIR DECREPIT SO CALLED POINT ACROSS NOTHING

Nexus

Actually, in this case the ‘raycizm’ cries were meant to distract from the FACT the two “students” were caught stealing ALCOHOL, red-handed, and decided to bray rather than admit guilt.

Nexus

The college ‘officials’ who orchestrated the ‘protests’ should be paying this fine, period.

TOM

GOOD! Now those idiots at the college who told their students to boycott the bakery and sent a mass email to students urging them to avoid the store should be fired!

Paul

This article about Oberlin College’s actions costing them $36 million has truly brightened my day. Every time one of these indoctrination centers (I mean schools) gets what is coming to them I rejoice in their loss.

CPOBill

What punishment did the lying EFFERS get??

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