A teacher who showed President Trump’s slogans and graphics reminiscent of white supremacy is fired in the United States

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The situation came to light after students searched for Republican Sen. Jim Banks, a Trump ally. Lawmakers then contacted campus administrators.

The material the teacher displayed is a graphic that is popular in the United States and is a pyramid of examples of actions and speech that can be considered explicit or implicit expressions of white supremacy.

Following the senator’s intervention, the School of Social Work suspended Professor Jessica Adams from her class on “Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice.” According to her, the content was misunderstood. Adams, a full-time teacher, continues to teach three other classes pending the outcome of an internal investigation that could lead to additional punishment or reinstatement.

She said in an interview that although she is concerned about her job, she decided to speak publicly about the incident because she saw the “censorship, suppression of academic freedom, and obvious exaggeration caused by this law.”

Kalea Benner, the social work dean who ordered the firing, did not respond to a request for comment.

The university said in an official statement that it was “committed to policies that guarantee academic freedom and due process for faculty,” but said it could not comment on individual cases.

“At least one student is feeling uncomfortable, and there are probably many more,” Sen. Banks said in congratulations. According to him, “this type of hateful rhetoric has no place in the classroom.”

Professors at the university dispute that, saying the allegations are based on a new state law approved last year and are in the interests of the Trump administration. The law requires public institutions to promote “intellectual diversity” and present students with a variety of political viewpoints, and to ensure that teachers do not include personal opinions unrelated to curriculum content.

Last week, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) criticized the law’s use to punish faculty, the closure of diversity departments, the firing of diversity staff, and recent administrative action against the campus student newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student.

For Maria Bukul, a professor of Eastern European history and local AAUP leader, universities have “lost sight of their mission and what’s really important.”

Adams said his course, which includes 24 graduate students, discusses topics related to racism. This is because these themes frequently appear in the work of social workers, and are areas that traditionally include discussions of social justice.

“We recognize that white supremacy is an ideology that supports racist behavior,” he said. She says the pyramid chart, which includes dozens of actions and phrases, helps show that while some expressions of racism are overt, others exist in everyday life in ways that go largely unnoticed.

The list includes items such as “I don’t stand up to racist jokes,” statements such as “It’s not my fault, I never owned a slave,” and acts such as “police brutality.” Adams said the material is also used in other social work courses at the university.

This is not the first time the graphic, created nearly 20 years ago by a Colorado organization focused on promoting nonviolence, has sparked controversy in academic circles.

Adams said no students complained directly to her about the class. The student who sought out the senator also did not file a formal complaint with the institution. Internal documents list the school principal as the author of the complaint, based on a report sent by the bank’s office.