Carnegie Mellon academic on leave after disturbing X posts calling for white man to die while she dances
A hate-filled Carnegie Mellon University professor has taken a leave of absence while the school probes her “hostile and threatening” social media history, after she called for a “white man” to die while she danced.Dr.Uju Anya, a Nigerian-born academic who has worked at the elite Pittsburgh research institution since 2021, initially bragged about being untouchable over her hateful online history, which has included wishing Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” painful death and celebrating the death of “s–tbag” Charlie Kirk.The final straw appeared to come after her vile response Friday to a critic who challenged her over a hateful, years-old post in which she’d celebrated Rush Limbaugh’s death.“Rush Limbaugh finally did something positive in life by dropping dead.
Good Riddance to bad rubbish,” she wrote Feb.17, 2021, the same day the conservative radio icon lost his battle to lung cancer.A user who found it asked her Friday, “Weird how you only celebrate the deaths of white people.
Why is that?”She venomously responded, “Die first, white man, then ask yourself why I’m dancing.”The response caught the attention of Elon Musk, who shared the post from her account, which has since been deleted.“This is a real professor at Carnegie Mellon University …,” he wrote, prompting internet sleuths to ferret out and archive other hateful posts by the academic.Anya taunted those calling her out and threatening to inform her employer, claiming that the university knew all about it and had courted her for a job.“Carnegie Mellon University knows exactly who they have.They poached me from my previous job, aggressively recruiting me with a massive salary and stellar benefits.
So baby, run tell them they f–ked up, and see if they pick up your call,” she wrote.She went so far as to brag that the university — where her bio describes her as “a scholar of language learning and Black experiences in multilingualism” — was aware of th...