Jeff Bezos criticizes a professor for wishing Queen Elizabeth a painful death

A university professor said she hoped Queen Elizabeth II would die a 'excruciating' death, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was quick to call her out on it.

Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University, tweeted on Thursday, "I heard the king of a stealing, raping, and killing empire is finally dead." "May she feel terrible pain."

The third richest person in the world then quoted Anya's tweet and wrote, "This is someone who is supposed to be working to make the world a better place?"

Bezos added, "I don't think so." “Wow.”

The back-and-forth happened while Queen Elizabeth, who was 96 at the time, was being cared for by doctors at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. It happened less than an hour before Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth had died at age 96.

The Carnegie Mellon professor defended her tweet in clear terms in posts she made after the first one.

When someone on Twitter said, "Eww, you stink," Anya replied, "You mean your private parts?"

Anya doubled down in a response to Bezos that was posted just minutes after Elizabeth's death was confirmed. She wrote, "May everyone you and your merciless greed have hurt in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonizers."

Anya's first tweet was later deleted because it broke Twitter's rules, which say that you can't "wish or hope that someone gets hurt."

Anya and Carnegie Mellon didn't answer our requests for comment right away.

When another user asked why she wanted Elizabeth to die, the professor replied, "I don't want her to die. She's already dead. I hope that her death is as agonizingly painful as the deaths of millions of people that she caused."

"You can keep wishing upon a star if you want me to say anything other than disdain for the monarch who led a government that supported the genocide that killed and displaced half of my family and whose effects are still being felt by those who are still alive today," Anya said.

In January, Carnegie Mellon published an interview with Anya in which he said that he was born in Nigeria, which was a British colony until 1960. She moved to the US when she was 10 and went to Dartmouth College, Brown University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

“Because of systemic exclusion, my voice is unique and foundational in the field,” Anya said in the Carnegie Mellon interview. “I am the main scholar looking at race and experiences of Blackness in language learning and one of the few who examine language education from a social justice perspective.” 

Bezos didn't respond right away to Anya's answer. Instead, he sent out a separate tweet to honor the Queen, saying, "I can't think of anyone who better embodied duty than the Queen. All the people in Britain who are sad about her death today have my deepest condolences."

Bezos defended the Queen after he and his family went to Buckingham Palace in July and looked at the royal family's collection of jewels and art, according to the Sun.

Staff at Buckingham Palace are already calling Bezos's visit a "shopping trip," a Buckingham Palace source told the newspaper. He was very interested in the Throne Room and the Ballroom.

The Sun says that after his visit, Bezos did not meet with any members of the royal family. Instead, he had dinner with Tom Cruise at a restaurant in the posh Mayfair neighborhood.

In the past few months, the owner of the Washington Post has been more active on Twitter. He has used the site to poke fun at the Biden Administration and Elon Musk and to talk about his first job at McDonalds.

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