National World By Jason Porter 9/9/2022
Jeff Bezos is told to ‘stay quiet’ after responding to a university professor’s tweet about the Queen’s death
Dr Uju Anya of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh accused the Queen of “genocide”
Jeff Bezos has divided opinion after weighing in on a tweet written by a professor who accused the Queen of “genocide”, just hours before her death.
Dr Uju Anya, who describes herself as a “antiracist” and a “feminist” on Twitter, was born in Nigeria to parents from Trinidad and Tobago - both of which were colonised by the British until 1962.
Posting on Twitter before the Queen’s death was announced, she wrote: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
Jeff Bezos quoted Dr Anya, who is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, writing: “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.”
A stream of critics began arguing about the Amazon founder’s own wealth and questionable business practices.
“You should probably stay quiet when it comes to critiques of empire + its overlords,” one wrote.
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