{"id":192168,"date":"2026-02-25T00:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192168\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:21:12","slug":"federal-judge-bars-bakersfield-college-from-punishing-professor-over-dei-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192168\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge bars Bakersfield College from punishing professor over DEI opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A federal judge has issued a temporary ruling barring Bakersfield College from firing or punishing a professor for opposing diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, policies.<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS REPORTING: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/nation-world\/prof-sues-california-college-trustee-who-compared-opponents-of-diversity-efforts-to-livestock-that-need-the-slaughterhouse-bakersfield-kern-community-college-district-daymon-johnson-john-corkins-institute-for-free-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prof sues California college trustee who compared opponents of diversity efforts to &#8216;livestock&#8217; that need &#8216;the slaughterhouse&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Daymon Johnson, a history professor at Bakersfield College, sued the administrators, alleging that they had targeted him because of his political beliefs. Johnson said the college investigated him after he referred to a colleague on social media as a \u201csocial justice warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The college determined Johnson had committed no wrongdoing. On Friday, a federal judge found that Johnson\u2019s First Amendment rights were likely violated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A federal judge has issued a temporary ruling barring Bakersfield College from firing or punishing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-192168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}