In Eric Foster’s Sept. 7 commentary, “The Oberlin outlier,” he sites three cases involving racism charges against three companies. In two of them, the companies were found guilty and damages were awarded to the plaintiffs. In the third, the company was found to be wrongly accused and received damages. The damages awarded to the wrongly accused business were higher than those awarded to plaintiffs who experienced the racism in the other two cases.
Foster queries, “What should we take from these results? What can we reasonably conclude from them?” My answer is: absolutely nothing. The sample size is too small. Foster hand-picked three cases and used them to make a point. Maybe he should take a statistics class. And his last paragraph, quoting from the personal Facebook post of a person connected to the Oberlin case in which the plaintiffs were wrongly defamed, was a cheap shot.
Mark Defer,
Aurora
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