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IU Sanctions Lecturer over White Supremacy Graphic that Included MAGA
Jessica Adams was barred after showing a graphic linking the MAGA slogan to white supremacy, sparking debate over academic freedom and Indiana's intellectual diversity law.
- On Oct. 6, Jessica Adams, an Indiana University lecturer, was barred from teaching Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice after administrators said a graphic potentially violated Senate Enrolled Act 202.
- A student in Adams' graduate class complained to Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., who contacted IU, leading Dean Kalea Benner, Dean, IU School of Social Work, to file an official grievance.
- In class, Adams displayed a graphic that used the pyramid of white supremacy to list covert vs. overt white supremacy, placing President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan near the dividing line and including Columbus Day and colorblindness.
- Adams continues teaching three other courses while an investigation proceeds, and possible sanctions under Indiana University administration include probation, suspension, or termination, though immediate consequences are unlikely.
- Observers note the incident fits a longer pattern as observers say the case follows years of conservative accusations that campuses censor dissenting views and has joined a national discourse on campus speech and censorship.
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Professor who criticized MAGA suspended with ‘intellectual diversity’ law
An Indiana University professor has reportedly been removed from teaching a class on social justice after she used a graphic that labeled the “Make America Great Again” slogan a covert form of white supremacy. The school took action against the professor under a new state law claiming to encourage “intellectual diversity.” The law describes intellectual diversity as “multiple, divergent and varied scholarly perspectives on an extensive range of…
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