California college silences conservative faculty through weaponized investigations: lawsuit

Faculty who challenge the antiracism orthodoxy of California's Kern Community College District, in the state's cattle-rich Central Valley, are like "livestock" to be "taken to the slaughterhouse," Vice President John Corkins said to chuckles at a board of trustees meeting in December 2022.
That quip showed up in a second lawsuit against the district by a history professor affiliated with the Renegade Institute for Liberty (RIFL) at Bakersfield College earlier this month.
Daymon Johnson took over as faculty lead for the right-leaning campus think tank from Matthew Garrett, fired by KCCD in a secret board vote in April after a contentious public meeting ended with no action against the tenured history professor for charges including the "dishonesty" of disagreeing with colleagues.