Welcome to another episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. I want you to imagine for just a second that you're doing your job. Maybe you're a teacher, maybe you're a producer, maybe you're a waiter, maybe you're a hairstylist, whatever you do. And suddenly, some security guards walk in, maybe even some armed guards, and they say, we need you to leave, we need you to come

with us, we need to go see your employer. No explanation, no nothing. Just before you know it,

you're standing in front of your employer and you don't know why. And they ask you to pack up

and leave. And you don't know why. And they refuse to tell you.

We're going to hear from someone, a law professor to whom this very scenario happened.

That's coming up. Now it's time for some sanity. It's the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

So I asked you to imagine yourself in that position.

Here's an opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal by Scott Gerber.

This is the gentleman whose rights were pretty much cast aside by his employer.

Around 1 p.m. on Friday, April 14th, Ohio Northern University campus security officers entered my classroom with my students present and escorted me to the dean's office.

Armed town police followed me down the hall.

Picture that.

My students appeared shocked and frightened.

I know I was. I was immediately barred from teaching, banished from campus, and told that if I didn't sign a separation agreement and release of claims by April 21st, ONU, Ohio Northern University, would commence dismissal proceedings against me.

The grounds?

Collegiality.

The specifics?

None.

Like many universities, ONU is aggressively pursuing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

I have objected publicly as vice chairman of the university council, an elected faculty

governance body, and in newspaper op-eds and on television, to DEI efforts that don't

include viewpoint diversity and would lead to illegal discrimination in employment and

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