Thousands sign letter supporting CMU professor who wished ‘excruciating’ death on Queen Elizabeth II – By Megan Guza (Triblive) / Sept 12, 2022
More than 3,000 people have signed a letter rallying around Uju Anya, a Carnegie Mellon University professor whose tweet last week wished Queen Elizabeth II an excruciating death and sparked outcry from some and support from others.
The signatures — just over 3,800 as of 5:30 p.m. Monday — came from students, academics and others across from Pittsburgh to Venezuela.
The post, which Twitter has since removed, came alongside news that the queen was in failing health and her family had gathered by her side. The Royal Family had not yet announced the 96-year-old monarch’s death at the time.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying,” the initial tweet read. “May her pain be excruciating.”
The tweet gained attention after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took note of it on the platform, taking aim at Anya’s position as a professor: “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.”
