[JoanneJacobs] California's 116 community colleges, open to all at very low cost, represent the best version of diversity, equity, and inclusion, writes Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic. The state's DEI rules for community college instructors represent the worst.
Bureaucrats are mandating policies that "trample on free speech while coercing instructors on how to teach their subjects, which scholarly conclusions to reach, and even what political positions to advocate," he writes.
The revised education code calls for evaluating community-college employees on their "antiracist" and "DEIA competencies," Friedersdorf writes. (A stands for "accessibility.") Professors will be hired, promoted and given tenure based "on their embrace of controversial social-justice concepts as those concepts are understood and defined by state education bureaucrats."
"How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?" asks Bill Blanken, a chemistry professor who's one of six plaintiffs in a First Amendment lawsuit filed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. "What’s the ’anti-racist’ perspective on the atomic mass of boron?," he asks.
You could mention that boron, or any other element, come in several isotopes. But all isotopes of any particular element have the same chemical reactivity (albeit different kinetic rates and equilibrium constants in such reactions - oops, that's racis!) 
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