A hate-filled Carnegie Mellon College professor has taken a go away of absence whereas the college probes her “hostile and threatening” social media historical past, after she known as for a “white man” to die whereas she danced.
Dr. Uju Anya, a Nigerian-born educational who has labored on the elite Pittsburgh analysis establishment since 2021, initially bragged about being untouchable over her hateful on-line historical past, which has included wishing Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” painful demise and celebrating the demise of “s–tbag” Charlie Kirk.
The ultimate straw appeared to return after her vile response Friday to a critic who challenged her over a hateful, years-old put up through which she’d celebrated Rush Limbaugh’s demise.
“Rush Limbaugh lastly did one thing constructive in life by dropping lifeless. Good Riddance to dangerous garbage,” she wrote Feb. 17, 2021, the identical day the conservative radio icon misplaced his battle to lung most cancers.
A person who discovered it requested her Friday, “Bizarre the way you solely rejoice the deaths of white folks. Why is that?”
She venomously responded, “Die first, white man, then ask your self why I’m dancing.”
The response caught the eye of Elon Musk, who shared the put up from her account, which has since been deleted.
“This can be a actual professor at Carnegie Mellon College …,” he wrote, prompting web sleuths to ferret out and archive different hateful posts by the educational.
Anya taunted these calling her out and threatening to tell her employer, claiming that the college knew all about it and had courted her for a job.
“Carnegie Mellon College is aware of precisely who they’ve. They poached me from my earlier job, aggressively recruiting me with a large wage and stellar advantages. So child, run inform them they f–ked up, and see in the event that they choose up your name,” she wrote.
She went as far as to brag that the college — the place her bio describes her as “a scholar of language studying and Black experiences in multilingualism” — was conscious of the complaints however ignoring them.
“Preserve crying, loser. My division chair simply texted me saying they’re throwing all your emails within the trash,” she wrote, punctuated by three laughing emojis.
However hours later, the college posted the information on its web site and X that Anya “is at present on voluntary skilled go away from the college and never educating programs on our campus this 12 months.”
“We’re deeply involved by current hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing the matter intently,” the college continued.
“To be clear: These posts incorrectly suggest our college’s endorsement and are opposite to our group requirements and values in addition to our dedication to fostering a secure, respectful and welcoming campus group.”
Extra of her social postings had been unearthed, together with one in August 2022, a month earlier than Queen Elizabeth II died, through which Anya preemptively celebrated the monarch’s passing.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is lastly dying. Might her ache be excruciating,” she wrote.
She additionally marked the primary anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk by writing, “Might he rot in piss,” calling him a “s–tbag” and sharing a repugnant video of sick college students mocking him with a dance meant to pantomime his grisly demise.
Earlier than making her Instagram personal and slicing off any communication or replies, Anya tried to color herself because the sufferer.
“Throughout a complete day of incessant violent threats, racist abuse, and harassment on Twitter — incited by fascist white supremacist MAGA trolls — I used to be doxxed. I reactivated my account to guard my household,” she wrote on the platform, the place her bio describes her as, “audacious, professor, feminist, lesbian, maker of excellent bother, mother, and Sirry’s spouse.”
Anya emphatically said she had no regrets for her prior postings and was not sorry within the least.
“I meant each phrase I stated in my tweets responding to white males and all others insulting and maligning me. I don’t retract or apologize. Might all of them eat s–t,” which she then signed “Dr. Uju Anya.”
In a rambling Medium put up final July, Anya referenced a few of her previous social media controversies, appeared to take satisfaction in the truth that two college directors had advised her “my conduct embarrasses Carnegie Mellon and damages its status.”
Somewhat than reflecting on the earnest suggestions of her employer, she went proper for the establishment’s throat.
“But once more, we’re advised that Carnegie Mellon College’s affiliation with school and college students who publicly have interaction in uncivil discourse damages its status, however there isn’t a speak of how my employer’s affiliation with rapists, dictators, genociders, and child bombers damages its status. So, I ask, who’s disgracing whom?”
Carnegie Mellon didn’t instantly reply to a request for clarification if her voluntary go away was the results of her social media exercise.
An electronic mail despatched to Anya’s Carnegie Mellon employees electronic mail returned with the out-of-office message, “I’m away on sabbatical go away for the 2026-27 educational 12 months, and this electronic mail account will not be being checked often throughout my absence.”
