Uju Anya, professor at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has sparked outrage on Twitter over her comments following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Writing shortly before the Queen’s death was announced, Anya Anya said she hoped the Monarch’s final hours of pain ‘be excruciating.’
Professor Uju Anya wrote: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
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But that post was suddenly deleted, as evidenced by Twitter’s accompanying note: “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules.”
Anya’s words about the Queen were slammed by thousands online, including billionaire Bezos.
Jeff Bezos said: ‘This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.’
Journalist Piers Morgan also added: ‘You vile disgusting moron.’
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When another user user asked why she would wish Elizabeth dead, the professor wrote: “I’m not wishing her dead. She’s dying already. I’m wishing her an agonizingly painful death like the one she caused for millions of people.”
“If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star,” Anya added.
If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.
— Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) September 8, 2022
The management of U.S. institution Carnegie Mellon University has distanced the educational centre from the offensive tweets of Uju Anya.
A statement regarding recent social media posts by Uju Anya. pic.twitter.com/NinpPa4rZg
— Carnegie Mellon University (@CarnegieMellon) September 8, 2022
According to an interview with Anya that Carnegie Mellon published in January, the linguistics professor was born in Nigeria, a British colony until 1960. She moved to the US when she was 10 and attended Dartmouth College, Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles.
“Because of systemic exclusion, my voice is unique and foundational in the field,” Anya said in the Carnegie Mellon interview. “I am the main scholar looking at race and experiences of Blackness in language learning and one of the few who examine language education from a social justice perspective.”
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