This article contains spoilers for Season 3 of “Dear White People.”

Late into Season 3 of the college campus satire “Dear White People,” released on Netflix earlier this month, the series takes an intriguing turn: Moses Brown ( Blair Underwood ), a beloved computer science professor, is accused of sexually assaulting one of his students, Muffy Tuttle ( Caitlin Carver ). It’s a familiar story line to anyone who has consumed a movie or TV show made within the last couple of years in the wake of #MeToo.

Yet “Dear White People” complicates this narrative by layering a racial component on top of its discussion of sexual harassment — Moses is a powerful black man, Muffy is a white student. In a subversive way, the show’s writers attempt to reconcile two strands of equally fraught issues: a history of black men not being believed when accused of raping white women, and a history of women not being believed when accusing men of rape.

The act in question is never shown; early on we do see Muffy and Moses engage in a platonic academic relationship. But in the seventh episode, Brooke ( Courtney Sauls ), a campus newspaper reporter, overhears Muffy disclose to Coco ( Antoinette Robertson ) an encounter she had with Moses, during which Muffy says she felt she “had to” have sex with him. Soon, the word has spread to the other students.

An entire episode is devoted to the question of whether or not he did it, and the divide among the classmates echoes debates taking place around #MeToo. Most of the students who believe Muffy are black women, including Joelle ( Ashley Blaine Featherson ), and wish to honor Muffy’s desire to keep her own identity a secret, while wanting to see Moses punished .