Is anyone really shocked a “diversity, social justice and human rights” class had a graph like this? https://t.co/7Q81Mxm1aB pic.twitter.com/57ER9p5nt2
— Jacob Stewart (@jstewartIndy) November 11, 2025
Jessica Adams, a lecturer in the IU School of Social Work, said she was removed from teaching her class following an intellectual diversity complaint about a lesson where she mentioned white supremacy.
SEA 202 allows students to report professors who they believe aren’t fostering free inquiry, expression and intellectual diversity.
Adams explained the situation at an American Association for University Professors press conference Friday. She said the complaint was first brought by the student after Adams taught a lesson in her Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice class that mentioned white supremacy to the office of Republican Sen. Jim Banks. He then took the complaint to the dean of the IU School of Social Work, Kalea Benner, who met with Adams about the issue.
Adams said she felt the complaint was without merit, as she was teaching within the structure of her class.
“I was asked to teach on structural racism, and as you teach on structural racism in the United States, you cannot not discuss white supremacy as it is the ideology that emboldens racist behavior,” Adams said.
The complaint was specifically about a graphic known as the pyramid of white supremacy, which aims to educate on the overt and covert dimensions of white supremacy. One layer of the pyramid contained phrases like “Make America Great Again” and "Columbus Day” as forms of white supremacy.
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