Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya, who has a history of social media controversies, is on a voluntary sabbatical while the school reviews what it referred to as her “hostile and threatening” social media posts.
\n\n“Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year,” CMU announced in a Friday X post.
\n\n“We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely,” Carnegie Mellon added.
\n\nIn a follow-up post, the school said, “To be clear: These posts incorrectly imply our university’s endorsement and are contrary to our community standards and values as well as our commitment to fostering a safe, respectful and welcoming campus community.”
\n\nAnya — an associate professor of Second Language Acquisition — is facing backlash after an X user shared screenshots of a 2021 exchange they had, in which the professor purportedly wrote, “Die first, white man.”
\n\nThe exchange began after the X user, @TheWuhanClan, replied to a February 17, 2021 post in which Anya wrote, “Rush Limbaugh finally did something positive in life by dropping dead. Good Riddance to bad rubbish.”
\n\n“Weird…
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