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Leo Francis's avatar

"In the meantime, that leaves the California Community College DEI policy as the most clearly unconstitutional law on the books in the country — but that gets very, very little media coverage even though it does something that’s arguably worse: compelling professors to promote ideas they may not agree with."

But why? Why does this problem with the California Community College (CCC) system receive so little attention? I saw Bill Maher interview CA governor Newsom last week, and I was hoping that Maher would ask about this genuinely troubling issue in Newsom's state. Instead, Maher conducted a disappointingly softball interview. He even allowed Newsom to dismiss DEI criticism as a right-wing phenomenon without pushing back on that mischaracterization at all.

And I can think of only three relatively high-profile centrist/Liberal types who have written on the DEI censorship at CCC: Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic; David French at the NYT; and Mr. Lukianoff on Substack, at FIRE, or in his books. Where is everybody else?

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Michael Magoon's avatar

Brilliant response. I am glad that Substack gives writers a means to respond to book reviews.

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