While we in America may not view the death of Queen Elizabeth in the same mournful way that citizens of the United Kingdom do, regardless of our disparate views on politics and culture, most of us agree that we should be respectful of a monarch who has served for seven decades. Unfortunately, certain “woke” individuals in academia and media couldn’t even wait for the late queen’s body to get cold before lashing out at the deceased 96-year-old monarch.
Perhaps no case of this is more appalling than a series of tweets by Uju Anya, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. According to her biography, she is also a “researcher in applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics, and critical discourse studies primarily examining race, gender, sexual, and social class identities in new language learning through the experiences of African American students.”
Broken down for the layman, Anya is a race/gender hustler teaching students that white people are responsible for every evil in the world.
Prior to the announcement that Queen Elizabeth was dead, Anya tweeted: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
The professor continued: “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.”
As anger about her tweet mounted, Anya doubled down on her bile: “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.”
Twitter eventually removed some of Anya’s posts, although her page remains up. And, frankly, it should remain up. Though her views are nothing less than despicable, she has the right to espouse her stupidity if she wants.
Anya’s vicious tweets were widely panned, by sources ranging from Piers Morgan to Jeff Bezos.
“You vile disgusting moron,” wrote Morgan.
And Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, tweeted, “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.”
Anya’s employer also disdained her opinion, telling the Daily Mail that the university does “not condone the offensive and objectionable messages” posted by their professor. “Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster.”
Media voices also dogpiled on the death of the queen. The senior newsletter writer for New York magazine, Tirhakah Love, wrote on Thursday, “For 96 years, that colonizer has been sucking up the Earth’s resources.”
“You can’t be a literal oppressor and not expect the people you’ve oppressed not to rejoice on news of your death,” Love added in his “Dinner Party” newsletter.
Love wasn’t done: “I just want to remind you that in the rest of the world, and I mean the actual world, most will be celebrating today.”
“We all have our methods of mourning friends; doing the electric slide on a colonizer’s grave just happens to be mine,” Love wrote.
The New York Times couldn’t resist rolling in the mud with Anya and Love. In an op-ed published Thursday, Harvard history professor Maya Jasanoff was more measured but no less insulting, insisting that Queen Elizabeth’s reign should not be “romanticized.”
“The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization [sic] whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged,” Jasanoff wrote.
“We may never learn what the queen did or didn’t know about the crimes committed in her name,” Jasanoff speculated.
Jemele Hill, a former ESPN personality and now a writer with The Atlantic magazine, a purveyor of the most woke politics, opined, “Journalists are tasked with putting legacies into full context, so it is entirely appropriate to examine the queen and her role in the devastating impact of continued colonialism.”
Certainly, Hill is right — perhaps she should write a book about the subject. Although, maybe she could wait to publish until the queen’s body is cold.
Like any human being, Queen Elizabeth undoubtedly had her flaws — we’re all sinners, after all. But the type of vitriol displayed at her passing by many of today’s leftists is utterly beyond the pale. It’s sickening and it underscores the morality of today’s far Left — they simply have none.
