Professor who says he was suspended after bringing chocolates mocking pronouns claims free speech 'eliminated'

A California history professor said he was suspended by the school he's worked at for three decades after he brought "anti-woke" chocolates on campus.

At a campus open house on April 29, Professor David Richardson of Madera Community College brought parody chocolate bars as snacks to share at his table display. The chocolate bars mock candy company Hershey's and are labeled with "she/her" pronouns for nutless and "he/him" for bars with nuts. Richardson said a staff member was offended by the bars and tried to engage him in a confrontation, but he didn't engage as he did not want to "make a scene" at the campus event.

Nobody said anything to him afterward, the professor claimed, so he was surprised when a uniformed school police officer knocked on his residence to deliver a notice of administrative leave on Monday.