A college professor wished Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” demise — and she or he was promptly slammed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is lastly dying,” Uju Anya, an affiliate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon College, wrote in a tweet on Thursday. “Could her ache be excruciating.”
The world’s third-richest man then quoted Anya’s tweet and wrote: “That is somebody supposedly working to make the world higher?”
“I don’t assume so,” Bezos added. “Wow.”
The back-and-forth got here because the 96-year-old monarch was below medical supervision at Balmoral Citadel in Scotland, and fewer than an hour earlier than Buckingham Palace formally introduced that Queen Elizabeth had died at 96.
In follow-ups to her preliminary put up elsewhere, the Carnegie Mellon professor defended her tweet in specific phrases.
After one Twitter person wrote, “Ewww you stink,” Anya responded: “You imply like your p—y?”
Anya additionally doubled down in a response to Bezos posted simply minutes after Elizabeth’s demise was confirmed, writing: “Could everybody you and your cruel greed have harmed on this world bear in mind you as fondly as I bear in mind my colonizers.”
Twitter later took down Anya’s preliminary tweet for violating its guidelines, which bar “wishing or hoping that somebody experiences bodily hurt.”
Anya and Carnegie Mellon didn't instantly reply to requests for remark.
When one other person requested why she would need Elizabeth lifeless, the professor wrote: “I’m not wishing her lifeless. She’s dying already. I’m wishing her an agonizingly painful demise just like the one she brought about for thousands and thousands of individuals.”
“If anybody expects me to specific something however disdain for the monarch who supervised a authorities that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my household and the implications of which these alive as we speak are nonetheless making an attempt to beat, you'll be able to hold wishing upon a star,” Anya added.
In accordance toan interview with Anya that Carnegie Mellon revealed in January, the linguistics professor was born in Nigeria, a British colony till 1960. She moved to the US when she was 10 and attended Dartmouth Faculty, Brown College and the College of California, Los Angeles.
“Due to systemic exclusion, my voice is exclusive and foundational within the subject,” Anya stated within the Carnegie Mellon interview. “I'm the principle scholar taking a look at race and experiences of Blackness in language studying and one of many few who look at language training from a social justice perspective.”
Bezos didn't instantly reply to Anya’s reply, as a substitute posting a separate tweet to memorialize the Queen, writing, “I can consider nobody who higher personified obligation. My deepest condolences to all of the Brits mourning her passing as we speak.”
Bezos’ protection of the Queen adopted a July go to he paid to Buckingham Palace, the place the Solar reported he and his household admired the royal household’s assortment of jewels and paintings.
“The Bezos go to is already jokingly being nicknamed a ‘purchasing journey’ by Palace employees,” a Buckingham Palace supply dished to the newspaper. “He confirmed a specific curiosity within the Throne Room and Ballroom.”
Bezos didn't meet with members of the royal household, as a substitute eating with Tom Cruise at a restaurant within the tony Mayfair neighborhood after his go to, in line with the Solar.
The Washington Put up proprietor has develop into extra energetic on Twitter in latest months, utilizing the positioning to take jabs on the Biden administrationand Elon Musk, in addition to reminisce about his first job at McDonald’s.
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