Posted on 05/15/2023 4:11:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
On May 8, tenured history Professor David Richardson said he received a letter from school officials stating he was being placed on administrative leave. Richardson had served Jeremy’s Chocolate at an open house event at Madera Community College the previous week.
Jeremy’s Chocolate was launched in March 2023 by conservative news site the Daily Wire after the Hershey’s Company released an advertisement for International Women’s Day that featured transgender woman and LGBT activist Fae Johnstone.
Jeremy’s Chocolate bars are labeled with the pronouns “He/Him” and “She/Her,” the former of which have nuts in them and the latter of which do not. Progressives on social media have criticized the brand as “transphobic.”
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Richardson told The Fix in an interview Friday that the controversy stemmed from an exchange with a transgender staff member at Madera Community College, who demanded to know what the “He/Him” and “She/Her” pronoun labels on the chocolate bars meant.
“I … said, ‘You’ll have to ask Jeremy,’” Richardson said he joked. “But it was clear to me that this particular staff member was trying to pick a fight.”
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A week later, a letter of suspension was delivered by a uniformed police officer to Richardson’s home, informing the professor he was being placed on leave and barred from stepping foot on campus, he said.
“As the British say, I was gobsmacked. I was floored,” Richardson told The Fix.
Richardson said that despite pressure to “kowtow” to the administration, he will not apologize for handing out the chocolates.
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“I have done more for that college than any other single faculty member on that campus,” he said. “And all of that gets wiped away, because I refuse to kowtow to violations of free speech and academic freedom?”
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No such thing as gay AND conservative. They are oil and water. Inherently they do not mix.
These so-called colleges need to go back to having grownups run the schools again. Toddlers as school officials is a stupid idea.
Then you are ignorant beyond all hope
Nothing ‘gay’ about sodomites.
Refuse the term.
True. Although,I think it’s the connection to the park..family memories..as well as the chocolate.
Plus I really hate how the left eventually ruins almost everything good and decent.
No, he’s NOT a conservative if he’s “gay.” We need to stop accepting these Overton Window shifts, or we’re dead.
I listened to the interview with the professor on Michael Knowles’ show. The guy is in a long-term same-sex relationship. He is tepidly an activist for the “love-is-love” cause. No, not conserative. Conservatism is not simply an igredient you can just add to a sh*t stew and call it good. It is a comprehensive world view, exclusive of a whole host of things, or it is counterfeit.
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