The director of a California college’s Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education says she was terminated after she began questioning the school’s antiracism “orthodoxy,” declined to join a “socialist network” and refused to use the term “Latinx.”
De Anza College, a community college in Cupertino, California, allegedly retaliated against Tabia Lee after she objected to multiple campus inclusion policies.
She told Inside Higher Ed that she lost her job after she objected to the college’s land acknowledgments for an Indigenous tribe, attempted to bring a “Jewish inclusion” event to campus, declined to join a “socialist network,” refused to use the terms “Latinx” and “Filipinx” and questioned why the word “black” was capitalized but not “white.”
“I no longer participate in gender pronouns because I find that the same toxic ideologies around race ideologies are now being advanced under gender ideologies; I also find that the constant obsession with pronouns and declaration of pronouns causes deep discomfort for individuals who identify as gender-fluid or who struggle with gender dysphoria,” she said.
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Lee also allegedly disrespected a founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the outlet.
A colleague had accused Lee, who is Black, of “white speaking,” “whitesplaining” and supporting White supremacy.
And while Lee has not yet filed a lawsuit against the college, she says she is not ruling out eventually doing so.
The college, however, has pushed back on the allegations, with district chancellor Judy Miner writing in a letter obtained by Inside Higher Ed that Lee’s termination was based, in part, on her “[p]ersistent inability to demonstrate cooperation in working with colleagues and staff” and an “unwillingness to accept constructive criticism.”
The school’s Tenure Review Committee voted Tuesday not to re-employ Lee as a contract employee for…
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