Jessica Adams, a professor at Indiana University, showed a graphic that labeled the slogan “Make America Great Again” as covert racism. A student in the class then wrote to U.S. Senator Jim Banks, a MAGA supporter, to tell the Senator that Professor Adams made him “uncomfortable.”
Sen. Banks then complained to the college administration, which then removed Adams from teaching the course.
Really. Uncomfortable? Remember when “trigger warnings” and “snowflakes” were a thing? Evidently those terms can now describe Trump-supporting college students. Poor babies.
And what is wrong with Senator Banks? And what is wrong with the Indiana University administrators? How did we get here?
Info for this post is from Stephanie Saul, “Professor Barred From Teaching a Class,” New York Times (10 Nov. 2025), p. 19.
Question: which Indiana University? And when did college students become such babies? I remember my ex having to deal with the parent of student who was not doing well in a undergraduate in Real Estate course at NYU. They were doing poorly because they hadn't done the work. The student wasn't just out of high school, but an "adult" learner!
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