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Ceffer
2019 Jun 7, 11:34pm
Ceffer
2019 Jun 7, 11:34pm
Set up bogus political departments in universities that have no true intellectual purpose, tradition or foundation. Add students who have been trained to believe that facts don't matter, only emotion or force, and have never had to discipline themselves, just get authorities to back down through tantrums or threat. Drop performance standards down to the lowest common denominator. What could possibly go wrong.
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Patrick
2022 Apr 4, 5:59pm
Patrick
2022 Apr 4, 5:59pm
https://www.dailywire.com/news/appeals-court-upholds-multi-million-dollar-verdict-against-oberlin-college-for-defaming-gibsons-bakery?source=patrick.net
Appeals Court Upholds Multi-Million Dollar Verdict Against Oberlin College For Defaming Gibson’s Bakery
By Ashe Schow
Apr 2, 2022 DailyWire.com
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EBGuy
2022 Apr 4, 9:12pm
I don't understand. How did it all go so wrong...
This spring, at Oberlin, I tracked down Cyrus Eosphoros, the student who’d worried about the triggering effects of “Antigone.” We met at the Slow Train Café, a coffee joint on College Street, one of the two main streets that make up Oberlin’s downtown. (The other is called Main Street.) Eosphoros is a shy guy with a lambent confidence. He was a candid, stylish writer for the school newspaper and a senator in student government. That day, he wore a distressed bomber jacket and Clubmaster glasses. His hair was done in the manner of Beaver Cleaver’s, with a cool blue streak across the top. Eosphoros is a trans man. He was educated in Mexico, walks with crutches, and suffers from A.D.H.D. and bipolar disorder. (He’d lately been on suicide watch.) He has cut off contact with his mother, and he supports himself with jobs at the library and the development office. He said, “I’m kind of about as much of a diversity checklist as you can get while still technically being a white man.”
Half a century ago, Eosphoros might not have had access to élite higher education in the United States. In that respect, he is exactly the sort of student—bright, self-made, easily marginalized—whom selective colleges like Oberlin have been eager to enroll. So I was taken aback when he told me that he’d just dropped out for want of institutional support.
“There’s this persistent, low-grade dehumanization from everyone,” he said. “Somebody will be, like, ‘Yeah, I had a class with a really great professor, and it was wonderful,’ and I’ll be sitting there, like, ‘Oh, yes, that was the professor who failed me for getting tuberculosis,’ or ‘That was the professor who, because I have double time on exams, scheduled them during lunch.’ ” Eosphoros was drinking Oberlin’s specialty, the Albino Squirrel: a white mocha with hazelnut syrup and a generous dollop of whipped cream. In an Oberlin Review essay explaining his “Antigone” experience (it was Antigone’s case for suicide that concerned him), he argued that trigger warnings were like ingredient lists on food: “People should have the right to know and consent to what they’re putting into their minds, just as they have the right to know and consent to what they’re putting into their bodies.”
This spring, at Oberlin, I tracked down Cyrus Eosphoros, the student who’d worried about the triggering effects of “Antigone.” We met at the Slow Train Café, a coffee joint on College Street, one of the two main streets that make up Oberlin’s downtown. (The other is called Main Street.) Eosphoros is a shy guy with a lambent confidence. He was a candid, stylish writer for the school newspaper and a senator in student government. That day, he wore a distressed bomber jacket and Clubmaster glasses. His hair was done in the manner of Beaver Cleaver’s, with a cool blue streak across the top. Eosphoros is a trans man. He was educated in Mexico, walks with crutches, and suffers from A.D.H.D. and bipolar disorder. (He’d lately been on suicide watch.) He has cut off contact with his mother, and he supports himself with jobs at the library and the development office. He said, “I’m kind of about as much of a diversity checklist as you can get while still technically being a white man.”
Half a century ago, Eosphoros might not have had access to élite higher education in the United States. In that respect, he is exactly the sort of student—bright, self-made, easily marginalized—whom selective colleges like Oberlin have been eager to enroll. So I was taken aback when he told me that he’d just dropped out for want of institutional support.
“There’s this persistent, low-grade dehumanization from everyone,” he said. “Somebody will be, like, ‘Yeah, I had a class with a really great professor, and it was wonderful,’ and I’ll be sitting there, like, ‘Oh, yes, that was the professor who failed me for getting tuberculosis,’ or ‘That was the professor who, because I have double time on exams, scheduled them during lunch.’ ” Eosphoros was drinking Oberlin’s specialty, the Albino Squirrel: a white mocha with hazelnut syrup and a generous dollop of whipped cream. In an Oberlin Review essay explaining his “Antigone” experience (it was Antigone’s case for suicide that concerned him), he argued that trigger warnings were like ingredient lists on food: “People should have the right to know and consent to what they’re putting into their minds, just as they have the right to know and consent to what they’re putting into their bodies.”
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AmericanKulak
2022 Apr 4, 9:46pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Apr 4, 9:46pm
EBGuy says
That's the problem.
He'd have been the family nut, at the happy home with chirping birds and everything is beautiful all of the time. Now he's some kind of victim-hero.
Half a century ago, Eosphoros might not have had access to élite higher education in the United States.
That's the problem.
He'd have been the family nut, at the happy home with chirping birds and everything is beautiful all of the time. Now he's some kind of victim-hero.
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Ceffer
2022 Apr 4, 10:16pm
Ceffer
2022 Apr 4, 10:16pm
EBGuy says
How come the squirrels didn't get triggered and sue Oberlin, too?
Eosphoros was drinking Oberlin’s specialty, the Albino Squirrel: a white mocha with hazelnut syrup
How come the squirrels didn't get triggered and sue Oberlin, too?
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fdhfoiehfeoi
2022 Apr 5, 2:15pm
fdhfoiehfeoi
2022 Apr 5, 2:15pm
I suggest writing an email to the president and alumni, it's quite enjoyable to call out racists. And Oberlin is full of them, because we all know had those store owners been black, wouldna heard shit about this.
https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-resources/contact-us/directory?source=patrick.net
https://www.oberlin.edu/campus-resources/contact-us/directory?source=patrick.net
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WillyWanker
2022 Apr 6, 12:08am
WillyWanker
2022 Apr 6, 12:08am
Oberlin should just pay and learn a lesson not to side with criminals.
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Bd6r
2022 Jul 10, 12:51pm
Bd6r
2022 Jul 10, 12:51pm
Hope the legal stalemate results in 30M interest bill on woke college payment. $$$ is the only way how to dhut this nonsense down.
Oberlin lost, big time.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/gibsons-bakery-v-oberlin-college-trial-judge-keeps-out-politics-but-town-v-gown-frames-the-case/