I think they're right. I'm going to pass on some information about job searching at CCs. Too many well-meaning theorizers are screwing up the lives and chances of too many valuable graduate students. Class sizes are usually limited by contract. There is no such thing as released time for research.
Faculty teach and work on major committees.
Which is not to say that research is frowned upon. But there's faculty development money here to support summer research, buy equipment and supplies, and send you off to conferences or research sites. We've had four Fulbrights in the last five years, and an NSF person and a Harvard fellow and a bunch of other research awards, and our faculty do a modest amount of publishing. You need to look into that while investigating jobs. The good part about all this is that you can do research without pressure.