A California community college suspended a gay professor for distributing candy to students. But don’t jump to conclusions.
The prof was actually temporarily shelved because he is a conservative, and despite his sexual orientation, the candy mocked the LGBTQ agenda and narrative.
According to The College Fix, a conservative website, tenured history professor David Richardson received a letter from the administration at Madera Community College on May 8 notifying him that he was now on administrative leave.
Richardson’s crime was to serve Jeremy’s Chocolate at an open house event the previous week, The Fix reported.
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The conservative news outlet The Daily Wire launched Jeremy’s Chocolate in March as a response to Hershey’s floating an International Women’s Day ad featuring transgender woman and LGBT activist Fae Johnstone.
The candy bar is named for Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boering. The candy wrappers feature the pronouns “He/Him” and “She/Her.”
In an ad promoting the candy, the company says, “Some chocolate companies don’t even know what a woman is. But we do. Indulge in the chocolate binary. One with nuts, one without.”
“You know which is which.”
Liberals, predictably, slammed the company as transphobic.
College spokesman Cory Burkarth declined to comment to The Fix about Richardson’s suspension.
However, Richardson told The Fix Friday that the college acted following his exchange with a transgender staffer.
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The staffer wanted to know what “He/Him” and “She/Her” labels meant.
“You’ll have to ask Jeremy,” Richardson said he told the outraged colleague. “But it was clear to me that this particular staff member was trying to pick a fight.”
The Fix noted that a week later a uniformed cop delivered the suspension letter to Richardon and told him he was prohibited from stepping foot on campus.
“As the British say, I was gobsmacked. I was floored,” Richardson told The Fix.
“They pulled out this old argument that ‘you have a 30-plus year career, is this really how you want to be remembered?’ And I almost wanted to say, ‘How dare you,’” Richardson recalled.
“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?”
Richardson has battled the college’s administration in the past.
For example, he sued the school last year arguing that his First and 14th Amendment rights were violated by being told he must attend a six-hour DEI training course. That occurred after Richardson mocked gender pronouns.
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