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I hired and worked with an Oberlin graduate. Great person. Talented engineer.

What specifically puts you off their entire student body; past, present, and future?

Well, I just looked on Twitter and see many, many Oberlin grads lamenting the Gibson's judgement and claiming that "everyone always knew" Gibson's was "racist" without any hard facts.

Just one example: https://twitter.com/ejdickson/status/1566061809500622848

She's still calling people who pled guilty to shoplifting "alleged shoplifters." That's dishonest.

Let's just say I don't hold by that school's accreditation.

Unrelated to your reply, but that twitter thread is truly bizarre.

>The one thing about this that has always struck me as ludicrous is the argument that the student body serves as a tool of the colleges whims. Students fucking hate the administration and resist it at every turn, & always have…much like 19 yos at any liberal arts college

Then why go to these schools? I don't understand why you'd pay $80k a year (just checked Oberlin's tuition for 2022) to go to a place that you hate. It makes absolutely no sense!

Generally, they don't hate the institution itself, but rather the administration, or at least aspects of it. It's a classic youth rebellion against authority.

They generally love their friends, love many of their teachers, and the environment, but they hate those who would enforce anything against what they think is right, or nice, or prudent.

Irrational rebellion is a puberty thing. Normal adolescents outgrow that phase by age 16. The loudest Oberlin "rebels" are in their mid-20s, some in their 30s and 40s.

Because Biden will forgive your loans?

It's best to judge individual people for their indiviual deeds. Discrimination by a fact of belonging to a group is too imprecise, almost always. It's okay to be more vigilant based on it, though - statistics does work.

This kind of knee-jerk reaction is exactly what many people don’t like about institutions like Oberlin.

You’re not going to hire somebody because other people who went to the same school said dumb things on Twitter? Even the most hyper-PC liberals don’t go that far

That's a clownish thing to say, and suggests that you're unlikely to be in a position to hire Oberlin grads.

The rationale you provide downthread, that you found a Twitter thread with Oberlin students complaining about the verdict, doesn't help your argument much.

Yes, I'm in a position to hire. Your prejudices are extreme.

If that's the case, it's only because you say things like "I'll never hire an Oberlin grad" anonymously, rather than signing your name to it.

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