Prof. Anya on hearing the news of the deteriorating health of the Queen on Thursday before her eventual death made an antagonistic tweet which the management of the microblogging app later deleted, saying it violated its rules.
There has been heated debate on social media over a tweet against the late British Queen, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, by a US-based Nigerian professor, Uju Anya.
Prof. Anya on hearing the news of the deteriorating health of the Queen on Thursday before her eventual death made an antagonistic tweet which the management of the microblogging app later deleted, saying it violated its rules.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” Anya had tweeted.
However, despite the deletion of the tweet by Twitter, it has continued to generate heated debate with many tweeps condemning her outburst while many others have defended her.
Reacting to Anya’s tweet, the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos wrote, “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better?”
“I don’t think so. Wow.”
But the Carnegie Mellon University professor who quickly defended her tweet responded to Bezos, writing, “Otoro gba gbue gi (Dysentery kill you). May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonizers.”
Also, Anya’s employer, Carnegie Mellon University in a statement on its Twitter page on Thursday condemned and distanced itself from her tweet.
The university where Anya teaches Linguistics wrote, “We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account.
She further tweeted:
“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.”
