Student Suing U. Colorado-Boulder After Investigation for Criticizing Identity Politics

Student Suing U. Colorado-Boulder After Investigation for Criticizing Identity Politics

I hope she gets rich off this lawsuit. Colleges and universities only seem to understand these issues when it hurts.

The College Fix reports:

Student sues CU Boulder after investigation for identity politics criticism

A Young Americans for Freedom leader is challenging her university’s DEI office after it investigated her for several comments.

Zoe Johnson filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Colorado-Boulder and wants to see the office of institutional equity and compliance, now called the “Office of Collaboration,” stop enforcing its “Nondiscrimination Policy.”

Johnson has been investigated under the policy for her criticism of identity politics and a simple question about a piece of clothes, according to the lawsuit.

She escaped punishment, but “now lives in constant fear that anything she says could be considered ‘unwelcome conduct’ under the Policy which would lead to another complaint and potential investigation,” it states.

The pending lawsuit follows the most recent example, beginning in October of last year, when the school told her the equity office would be investigating her for “comments [Johnson] made to other students pertaining to protected class identities.”

“Why do we need two months of this? Didn’t we do this back in June?” Johnson reportedly told a classmate in response to a choir ensemble class about LGBT history. She also offended students on another day soon after by asking what a “do-rag” was, seeing one on a male student’s head.

“I truly never meant to hurt anyone but I believe that students should have the emotional maturity to resolve any issues they have with me on their own,” Johnson said during a 2024 meeting with the choir director about her comments.

The comments led to her being reported to her choir director and ultimately the OIEC office for investigation, according to the lawsuit.

Her choir director previously criticized Johnson in 2022 for criticizing the concept of white privilege during a private conversation with a choir member. “I don’t care about your identity, I care more about what you have to say as a person, more than how you look,” she said to a classmate.

CU Boulder did not respond to multiple requests for comments in the past weeks about the lawsuit. Young America’s Foundation also did not respond to questions from The College Fix about the lawsuit.

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