Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025 View Sat 05/24/2025 View Fri 05/23/2025 View Thu 05/22/2025
2019-06-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Bill Maher Condemns Oberlin College SJWs: ‘There’s a Price to Pay’
[BREITBART] Comedian Bill Maher criticized social justice warriors at Oberlin College this week over their role in defaming a local bakery. The family-owned business won a $44 million judgment in a defamation case against the notoriously progressive school.

Gibson’s Bakery was awarded $44 million in total damages by an Ohio jury last week when they decided that Oberlin College had defamed the bakery, calling it racist for its actions during a shoplifting incident.

This week, comedian Bill Maher condemned the "social justice warriors" behind the defamation.

"Social justice warriors ... are finally finding that maybe there’s a price to pay [for political correctness]," Maher said during his weekly HBO show. The liberal comedian has long argued that political correctness does more harm than good to the cause of liberalism.

Oberlin College maintains that they did not defame Gibson’s Bakery. According to the college, it simply aided students who wished to engage in activism in response to the incident at the bakery. Oberlin believes that it was simply helping its students express themselves.

The jury did not see it that way.

"I’m tired of the term ’political correctness’," Sykes said on the panel. "It’s like ’performative wokeness.’ In our mono-culture, we have to find a way to humiliate, to drive people out that we disagree with, and I will tell you that there’s a huge backlash. ... The folks on the right were bailing on liberalism. ... They’re basically saying that, ’The Left wants to destroy you, they hate you, they want to take away your rights, they want to destroy your business.’ Unfortunately, you have anecdotes like this that make it that plausible."
Posted by Fred 2019-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Unleash the hungry lawyers!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-06-19 07:30||   2019-06-19 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 I've noticed that the ads for "we'll handle your disability denial claim" have dried up. Clearly there is a hunger for new opportunities among that crowd of shysters.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-06-19 10:04||   2019-06-19 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Old Bolshevik asks for chistka to end.
Posted by charger 2019-06-19 16:35||   2019-06-19 16:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Maher is occasionally correct, as in this. Don't pin any honorific badges on him based on his actual batting average
Posted by Frank G 2019-06-19 19:16||   2019-06-19 19:16|| Front Page Top

14:14 swksvolFF
14:12 swksvolFF
13:54 mossomo
13:51 mossomo
13:50 NoMoreBS
13:50 Abu Uluque
13:44 Abu Uluque
13:41 NoMoreBS
13:39 Abu Uluque
13:36 mossomo
13:36 swksvolFF
13:32 mossomo
13:26 Frank G
13:12 Regular joe
13:12 mossomo
13:11 swksvolFF
13:08 Abu Uluque
13:00 swksvolFF
12:59 Regular joe
12:55 Skidmark
12:53 Skidmark
12:52 Abu Uluque
12:50 Abu Uluque
12:49 Skidmark









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com