Carnegie Mellon college has refused to condone remarks made by certainly one of its teachers who wished Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating” ache as she died on Thursday, for ruling a “thieving raping genocidal empire.”
Dr Uju Anya, a Nigerian-born U.S. professor who teaches utilized linguistics, vital sociolinguistics, and demanding discourse research on the Pittsburgh-based school, criticised the late monarch in a barrage of tweets whereas she was underneath medical supervision, solely hours earlier than her loss of life.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” Anya stated in a single tweet, which was later eliminated by the social media web site for violating its coverage.
Twitter additionally eliminated the next tweet from the professor: “That wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have f***** generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family, and she supervised a government that sponsored the genocide my parents and siblings survived. May she die in agony.”
In an announcement posted on its official Twitter account, the college stated: “We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account.
“Free expression is core to the mission of upper training, nonetheless, the views she shared completely don’t characterize the values of the establishment, nor the requirements of discourse we search to foster.”
Newsweek has contacted Anya for remark.
Anya’s feedback brought on opprobrium, and drew the eye one of many world’s richest males.
“This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow,” Amazon government chairman Jeff Bezos, who is claimed to be price round $136 billion, tweeted in response.
Although the tweet Bezos responded to was deleted, certainly one of Anya’s tweets was not eliminated.
“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,” the tweet stated.
She is referencing the British conquest of Nigeria within the late 19th century and early 20th century, the place hundreds of Nigerians had been arrested, displaced and killed by British colonizers.
Although beloved by many, Britain’s Royal Family has additionally attracted controversy for its brutal rule over the British Empire. Although Queen Elizabeth II, who died in Scotland on Thursday afternoon aged 96, has acknowledged the empire’s crimes towards the colonies, she by no means publicly apologized for them.