Posted on 07/26/2023 10:40:10 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
A former community college Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) director and tenured faculty member is suing her former employer for allegedly stunting her free speech and academic freedom, telling Newsweek: "They literally marginalized me as an individual."
Tabia Lee, who is Black, was recently terminated from her position at De Anza Community College, located in Cupertino, California, as a full-time, tenured member after working in the education field for approximately two decades.
A 53-page lawsuit filed July 10 claims that she encountered a hostile department "illegally targeting White people on the basis of race." It also says she was accused of "whitesplaining" and not being the "right kind of Black person," and claims she was vilified for refraining from invoking racial stereotypes and refusing to use the term "Latinx" instead of "Latinos."
DEI, which broadly describes initiatives designed to promote the fair inclusion of under-represented groups, is almost everywhere in current U.S. society, including in congressional amendments for military-related funding and across the business sector.
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Lee, whose name and work have been erased from De Anza's website, told Newsweek that what she encountered there was something she never previously experienced—including a constant "focus on whiteness" and "white supremacy culture," which she said was weaponized against her and other faculty members as part of the chilling of free speech and academic freedom.
The lawsuit says that she "objected to racial stereotypes peddled by Defendants that targeted both White and Black Americans, bizarrely celebrating Blacks as incapable of objectivity, individualism, efficiency, progress, and other grossly demeaning stereotypes, while condemning Whites for promoting these same values, which Defendants label 'colonialism' and 'White supremacy.'"
One alleged instance resulted in Lee being called "a dirty Zionist" for having certain speakers on campus, which reverberated up to the college's Board of Trustees.
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The leftists acting like the racists they are.
What a surprise.
Better link
https://www.newsweek.com/dei-college-director-fired-not-being-right-kind-black-person-1813481
This has been all over the place since April. Even in the Atlantic.
Another pinko learns that you can never be leftist enough. Ever.
I guess she wasn’t upidity enough.
actual progress?
Is this the Bee?
(in before “Is this the Bee?”)
Indeed.
A black woman who refused to drink the Marxist Kool-Aid of victim-hood for life simply for the color of one’s skin. Good for her. May many more leave that racist leftist rat plantation refusing to live that Marxist lie.
Leftists are devolving. At this rate they should be back to the stone age in their thinking by 2050.
Another leftist, woke and anti-white California college.
And people ask why today’s college students are so damned dumb, uneducated, reverse racists, marxists/fascists, and Democrats.
“It’s the leftists colleges, Jim”.
Scotty: Just have to nuke them from orbit, just to be sure!
Uppityness will not be tolerated.
These are no longer universities. Kick the Marxists out.
She brought common sense into the school instead of CRT. No wonder there was such strong opposition.
She apparently made the mistake of taking the words “Diversity” and “Inclusion” for their actual meaning instead of the woke corruptions of those words.
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