Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, is reviewing recent social media posts by Nigerian-born academic Dr. Uju Anya, describing them as “hostile and threatening,” following intense online backlash.
The X profile @TheWuhanClan publicly shared screenshots and details of a “hostile” exchange involving Anya.
The site shared her 2021 quote celebrating Rush Limbaugh’s death. She wrote, “Rush Limbaugh finally did something positive in life by dropping dead. Good Riddance to bad rubbish.”
The user replied, “Weird how you only celebrate the deaths of white people. Why is that?”
Anya then responded, “Die first, white man, then ask yourself why I’m dancing.”
In a statement posted on X on Saturday, the university said: “Dr Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year.
“We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely.”
This is not the first time the university has condemned Anya’s online activity. In 2022, she drew widespread criticism for posts wishing Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” pain.
Are we so hard up for professors that we have to select a vicious racist? Even for a leftist university, isn’t that a bit much?
She is a professor at @CarnegieMellon. pic.twitter.com/XmPTSVW0qV
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 11, 2026
She has a history of hatred and racism. She would be happier in Nigeria where there are few white men, not here. We’re sure the black Islamists would treat her accordingly. She claims to be an antiracist feminist, which means she’s racist against white men.
I don’t want you to lose your job, I want your terrorist ass deported. @UjuAnya https://t.co/cWrP6bQK4J pic.twitter.com/KzkMmu2wt0
— Tara (@Tara4America) September 11, 2026
And they gripe about George Floyd… pic.twitter.com/VT2hUEaThN
— Populist Pup (@RokerGlasses) September 12, 2026
The whole world is…
Who the hell is doing the vetting in the Carnegie Mellow HR Department? This is despicable.
Parents beware, the faculty at @CarnegieMellon is sub par, racist, and grossly negligent pic.twitter.com/LhVr4iw8Mb— Lori Mac (@IcedBrewX) September 11, 2026
And the DEI from Nigeria could be plagiarizing.
I hope someone takes this and runs with it. I randomly downloaded ONE of her academic publications and ran it through a plagiarism detector. It came back as “Plagiarism risk: HIGH”
Here’s her profile on Google Scholar with links to all her papers:https://t.co/nH9YeYfqfE pic.twitter.com/CZitgnKzNI
— 🇺🇸1776-Present🇺🇸 (@American__Sam) September 12, 2026