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One Indiana University A professor was removed from teaching a class on social justice for using a graphic “listing” President Donald Trump.make america great againSloganism as a form of white supremacy.
On October 6, Jessica Adams, a lecturer in the university’s School of Social Work, was temporarily barred from continuing to teach the graduate-level class “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Work”. social justice“After a student complained to the senator’s office about tuition assistance jim banksA Trump ally.
The senator then referred the complaint to university officials, who launched an investigation and warned that Adams might be in violation of a recently passed state law requiring “intellectual diversity” in the educational institutions of the state.
Adams said at a news conference earlier this month that the widely used graphic was being misinterpreted and that he was within his sentence. Subject matter Of his course.
“I was asked to teach further structural racismAnd as you teach on structural racism in the United States, you can’t discuss white supremacy because that’s the ideology that perpetuates racist behavior,” Adams. Said,
The visualization shows a list of behaviors and thoughts inside and outside the pyramid, divided by a line separating “overt” white supremacy at the top of the pyramid and a far greater number of “covert” white supremacist thoughts and actions at the bottom.
In the graphic, the MAGA slogan is just outside the pyramid, at the top of the “Secret” category, near the “Revealed” area.
Indiana University Bloomington Chapter of the University Professors Association School accused of irregularities in investigation In the event, and ironically, the state law is being used to “suppress intellectual diversity”.
A statement this week alleged that the school failed to impartially investigate the incident, denied Adams the right to counsel, and saw the same administrator serve as both investigator and complainant.
Indiana University has said it does not comment on ongoing personnel matters.
Bank, in A statement to the new York TimesCriticized the professor.
“At least one student in the class was uncomfortable, and I’m sure there are more,” he said. “This type of hateful rhetoric has no place in the classroom.”
Adams is awaiting the results of a review of the allegations and still teaches three other courses at the university.
Earlier this year, a Bloomington professor was sanctioned under the law. Professor, Ben Robinson, Claim A full investigation of the allegations at issue never actually took place and the punishment was intended to “deter other faculty from speaking out on burning issues”.
The Trump administration has put huge pressure on universities To be consistent with their policy goals, they sometimes cut hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to top institutions in an effort to impose new intellectual diversity requirements, cooperate with immigration raids, and eliminate diversity programs.