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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/indiana-university-professor-white-supremacy-lesson.htmlIndiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the Make America Great Again slogan as an example of white supremacy.
By Stephanie Saul
Nov. 13, 2025, 4:31 p.m. ET
A professor who showed a graphic labeling the Make America Great Again slogan as covert white supremacy has been removed from teaching a class under a new Indiana law meant to foster intellectual diversity.
The professors lesson came to light after an Indiana University student filed a complaint with a U.S. senator, Jim Banks, a staunch ally of President Trump. The senator then contacted the campus.
The graphic is a widely used illustration that shows a pyramid with examples of statements and behavior that might be considered overt or covert white supremacy.
The senators intervention led the universitys School of Social Work to suspend the professor, Jessica Adams, from teaching the class, called Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice. Ms. Adams said the intent of the graphic had been misinterpreted.
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IU professor removed from class over white supremacy graphic that lists MAGA

Indiana University Lecturer Jessica Adams presented the Pyramid of White Supremacy to her class on Sept. 22. Provided By Jessica Adams
Botany
(75,888 posts)N/t
Skittles
(168,672 posts)yes indeed
GreenWave
(12,020 posts)Justice Brandeis
(392 posts)I won't say that I agree that everything in that triangle is necessarily white supremacy, but that little snowflake MAGA student should have made arguments challenging the professor if he disagreed.
A free and open exchange of ideas.
In other words, the way college should (used to) be.
Ford_Prefect
(8,468 posts)SocialDemocrat61
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RVN VET71
(3,099 posts)Indy would have quit his professorship and moved to a university that believed in academic freedom and shared his distaste for things Fascist.
A bigoted narrow minded politician gets a weeping letter from a whimpering punk and the University folds? I would ask, rhetorically "Have they no shame?" But the answer is self evident.
hoosierspud
(197 posts)There has been a lot of turmoil at IU this year. First, a conference on medical issues in LGBTQ patients was canceled. Next, the faculty advisor to the student newspaper was fired, and the student staff was told only to report campus news, not national and international news. The students ignored this, and the faculty advisor is suing the university. Now this. The fascists in the state legislature want to control what's being taught.
RVN VET71
(3,099 posts)It's very sad to see major universities turn flaccid in defense of academic freedom.
BaronChocula
(3,784 posts)What if this went further and it can be proven in court that maga is a white nationalist movement?
Seinan Sensei
(1,262 posts)At first glance, this might appear to be an attempt to foster a wide range of viewpoints and perspectives
Wrong.
This law was passed in order to require Universities to hire Profs who are flat-earthers, creationists, and social Darwinians
It means you dont hire Profs who might encourage critical thinking, or Profs who might hurt MAGA fee-fees.