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Professor Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk Murder and Villainized ‘White Men’ Still Works for University

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14.09.2026

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Professor Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk Murder and Villainized ‘White Men’ Still Works for University

Carnegie Mellon University has not fired professor Uju Anya, instead allowing her to take “voluntary professional leave” after a string of “offensive and objectionable” social media posts celebrating the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

A Daily Signal review of publicly available university records shows that Anya is still an associate professor of second-language acquisition and director of the Language Program Administration Certificate Program at the university, even after the university stated on X on Sunday that it is “deeply concerned” by her “hostile and threatening” posts, and the professor is now on “voluntary professional leave.”

The university added in another post that it does “not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account,” but that the professor has the First Amendment right to share her views.

The university continued, saying that her views did “not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of the discourse we seek to foster.”

Anya’s series of now-deleted X posts on the first anniversary of Kirk’s murder included one stating, “Die first white man, then ask yourself why I’m dancing.”

In another now-deleted post, she........

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