The state of California is demanding professors at community colleges teach the state-adopted ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” and is getting sued for that reason.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Express is taking the action on behalf of six California community college professors to fight “new, systemwide regulations forcing professors to espouse and teach” those “politicized” ideas.
The professors teach at one of several Fresno-area community colleges within the State Center Community College District.
FIRE reported, “Under the new regulations, all of the more-than-54,000 professors who teach in the California Community Colleges system must incorporate ‘anti-racist’ viewpoints into classroom teaching.”
But that, the case charges, violates the First Amendment.
FIRE explained, “The regulations explicitly require professors to pledge allegiance to contested ideological viewpoints. Professors must ‘acknowledge’ that ‘cultural and social identities are diverse, fluid, and intersectional,’ and they must develop ‘knowledge of the intersectionality of social identities and the multiple axes of oppression that people from different racial, ethnic, and other minoritized groups face.'”
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