Professor Uju Anya, who wished the Queen an ‘excruciating death’ doubles down

A Carnegie Mellon professor who sparked outrage by saying she hoped the Queen died an ‘excruciating death’ has doubled down on the sick comments.

Uju Anya, who teaches linguistics, admitted her tweet was an ’emotional outburst’ because she was ‘triggered’ by news of Her Majesty’s passing.

But she said ‘I said what I f***ing said’ and was ‘unapologetic’ for the vile posts that lead to a huge public backlash including from her own university.

Anya, a Left-wing Nigerian-American lecturer, was among those trying to use the Queen’s death for social capital while the royals and millions mourned.

She attacked the Queen as the ‘chief monarch of a thieving, raping genocidal empire’, adding: ‘May her pain be excruciating.’

Other obscure writers piled in on her passing aged 96, with little-known journalists from The New York Times, Mew York Magazine and The Atlantic turned into online trolls and also aired vile claims.

It comes as Meghan Markle’s new favorite magazine The Cut now turned their heads on her father-in-law King Charles, slamming the new British sovereign as ‘big, fussy baby and a jerk’.

The latest hatchet-job from the New York Magazine offshoot was titled ‘King Charles’s Reign of Fussiness Has Begun’ and viciously went after the royal as he tried to mourn the loss of his mother.

Hundreds of people slammed the crude professor for her comments about the Queen’s final hours

Queen Elizabeth, pictured on June 2, died last week aged 96. Anya said she despised her because of Britain’s role in fueling Nigeria’s civil war in the late 1960s, which killed over a million people

Anya, who has been bragging on social media about her raft of new followers, doubled down on her sick posts in a new interview last night.

The Pennsylvania-based professor, 46, told the podcast This Week In White Supremacy she had no regrets about her tweet, which was stripped down by Twitter.

She said: ‘In other words, I said what I f****** said.’ She continued: ‘I had an emotional reaction. And an emotional outburst,’ she told the podcast hosts.

‘I was triggered by this news. It went deep into pain and trauma for me. Due to my family experience with the rule of this monarch.’

Anya, who said she was an ‘unapologetic, left-leaning’ provocateur used to contentious debate, said her tweet was ‘not planned, very spontaneous’ and ‘extremely real’.

‘I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,’ she wrote in a tweet to her approximately 70,000 followers.

She said she was surprised by how much attention the tweet received, but said it was designed to educate people.

‘I like to teach. I am fundamentally a teacher,’ she said. ‘And I bring evidence and support for the claims that I make.’

Anya said on Wednesday that she was ‘triggered’ by the death of the queen

 

The professor turned activist was landed in hot water for her sick post last Thursday, where she wrote: ‘I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.’

She later added: ‘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.’

Jeff Bezos was among those condemning her, posting on his Twitter: ‘This is someone supposedly working to make the world better?

‘I don’t think so. Wow.’ Anya claimed her attacks on the Queen stemmed from her family during their time in Nigeria.

In 1967 – seven years after Nigeria became independent of the British Empire, and 15 years after the young queen took the throne – a civil war broke out in the east of the country.

Biafra separatists wanted independence for Nigeria’s Igbo people, but they were strongly repressed by the Nigerian government, with the support of the British government, which supplied weapons.

More than a million people died in the two-year conflict – many of them from starvation. Despite being a largely ceremonial monarch, Anya still chooses to blame the Queen.

The death of the queen was also celebrated by some opinion writers, with one promising to dance on her grave and another describing her 70-year reign as ‘devastating.’

While millions around the world were mourning the death of the 96-year-old monarch, provocateurs were within hours mocking the outpouring of grief – in some of the most esteemed publications in the United States.

The ridicule of her reign was led by Tirhakah Love, senior newsletter writer for New York Magazine. ‘For 96 years, that colonizer has been sucking up the Earth’s resources,’ he wrote in his Thursday evening newsletter.

He added: ‘You can’t be a literal oppressor and not expect the people you’ve oppressed not to rejoice on news of your death.’

Love, who was appointed in December, described by magazine editors as ‘creative and restless’ and ‘funny and surprising’, said he felt nothing but joy at her death.

‘Now I’m supposed to be quiet or, better yet, actually mourn what was a barely breathing Glad ForceFlex trash bag? Please, no,’ he wrote.

‘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 knew his views on the Dinner Party newsletter would be provocative, tweeting: ‘lol make sure yall read dinner party’.

When someone reacted with mock horror, the Texan replied: ‘lmaooo whatchu meaannn???? im about to be as respectful and sweet as always!’

In The New York Times, Maya Jasanoff, a history professor at Harvard University, where she focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, said it was wrong to ‘romanticize’ her reign.

The coffin bearing the queen’s body is carried into the Palace of Westminster on Wednesday

Tirhakah Love, senior newsletter writer for New York Magazine, said he was looking forward to dancing on the queen’s grave

‘The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged,’ she wrote.

Jasanoff highlights repression in Malaya, Kenya, Yemen, Cyprus and Ireland.

‘We may never learn what the queen did or didn’t know about the crimes committed in her name,’ she said.

‘Those who heralded a second Elizabethan age hoped Elizabeth II would sustain British greatness; instead, it was the era of the empire’s implosion.’

A writer for The Atlantic magazine, Jemele Hill, also chimed in on her Twitter account, saying journalists had a duty to cover what she called the ‘devastating’ impacts of Elizabeth’s reign.

‘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,’ Hill wrote. 

That tweet was also met with a comment section full of critics, with one remarking ‘Lol ain’t no one gonna say a thing tho.’

Maya Jasanoff, a Harvard professor specializing in the history of the British Empire, said it was wrong to ‘romanticize’ the queen’s rule 

Jemele Hill, a writer for The Atlantic, wrote about the ‘devastating’ reign of the queen

Another journalist, Eugene Scott of The Washington Post, also offered his opinions, asking when it would be a good time to talk about colonialism under the queen. 

‘Real question for the ‘now is not the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism’ crowd: When is the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism?’ he wrote.

Imani Gandy, a legal analyst at Rewire News, tweeted out a video of a group of men tap-dancing outside Buckingham Palace to the song Another One Bites The Dust.

‘The queen died and the Irish are already on it lol,’ she wrote.

Meghan’s new favorite magazine The Cut launches vicious attack on father-in-law King Charles for being a ‘big, fussy baby and a jerk to his staff’ as he mourns loss of beloved mother, Queen Elizabeth II

The Cut, the liberal magazine that published an in-depth interview with the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, in August, has targeted King Charles in a new piece that was published online on Wednesday.  

The latest piece from the New York Magazine offshoot is titled: ‘King Charles’s Reign of Fussiness Has Begun,’ which comes days before the Queen’s funeral, which is scheduled for Monday. 

The article points to reports that Charles went through two ‘tantrums’ in the days after his mother’s death. One was the report that he stormed out of a signing ceremony in Northern Ireland when a pen leaked on him, another was when he ‘trussed up in tails and hissing at palace aides who failed to move a pen tray off his table with due haste.’ 

The king apparently gestured to aides to help him to make some room on a cluttered desk. 

The Cut goes on to mention a report from the Guardian in which it was alleged that Charles chose to tell close to 100 employees that he was letting them go as he prepares to move into Buckingham Palace during a memorial service for his mother. A source told the newspaper: ‘Everybody is absolutely livid, including private secretaries and the senior team.’

In August, Markle told the Cut that she and Prince Harry were ‘happy’ to leave Britain and were ‘upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy… just by existing’ before they stepped down as frontline royals and moved to North America.

The latest attack from the magazine Charles III comes less than a week after his mother’s death

The article accuses him of ‘mundane cruelty’ to his wife, Princess Diana. 

Infamously, shortly after the Queen’s death, the Cut published an article titled: ‘I Won’t Cry Over the Death of a Violent Oppressor.’ 

The piece was an interview Carnegie Mellon linguistics professor Uju Anya who tweeted on Thursday: ‘I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.’

Anya told the Cut that the Queen was a ‘representative of the cult of white womanhood.’ 

The Cut was launched in 2008 as a section on New York Magazine’s website and made into a standalone brand in 2012. It owned by Vox Media, who publish titles such as Thrillist, Eater and The Verge. 

It has published such controversial removed pieces such as a 2018 article that referred to Priyanka Chopra as a ‘global scam artist’ with regard to her relationship with Nick Jonas and an open forum for spreading unconfirmed reports of sexual misconduct by men in journalism.  

Anya, an applied-linguistics professor at the Pittsburgh university, is the daughter of a mother from Trinidad and a father from Nigeria. 

She told NBC News that she is ‘a child of colonization,’ and that her perspective was shaped by Britain’s role in the Nigerian Civil War.

‘My earliest memories were from living in a war-torn area, and rebuilding still hasn’t finished even today,’ she said.

She defended her remarks opposing the monarchy and added that the Queen was not exempt from the decisions made by the British government ‘she supervised.’

‘Queen Elizabeth was representative of the cult of white womanhood,’ Anya said.

‘There’s this notion that she was this little-old-lady grandma type with her little hats and her purses and little dogs and everything, as if she inhabited this place or this space in the imaginary, this public image, as someone who didn’t have a hand in the bloodshed of her Crown.’

Uju Anya, a black applied-linguistics professor at the Pittsburgh university, said on Friday: ‘Queen Elizabeth was representative of the cult of white womanhood’

In August, Markle told the Cut that what the couple asked for when they wanted financial freedom was not ‘reinventing the wheel’.

The article also heard from Harry who suggested some members of the Royal Family ‘aren’t able to work and live together’, while Meghan revealed that her husband told her that he had ‘lost’ his father Prince Charles.

Meghan also said: ‘I’m getting back … on Instagram’ – with Davies describing ‘her eyes alight and devilish’. It comes after she closed all of her social media accounts ahead of her wedding to Harry in 2018. But further down the article, it says: ‘Later, Meghan would relay she was no longer sure she would actually return to Instagram.’

And Meghan said she spoke to a Lion King cast member from South Africa in London in 2019 who told her: ‘When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.’

Meghan said that she and Prince Harry were ‘happy’ to leave Britain and were ‘upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy… just by existing’ before they stepped down as frontline royals and moved to North America. 

Prior to the release of their interview, The Cut published an article titled: ‘People Will Accuse Meghan Markle of Lying About Anything.’ That piece dealt with Markle’s claim that there had been a fire in Archie’s room prior to the formerly Royal couple attending an event, and cited numerous commentators allegations that the event was exaggerated. 

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral cortege is pictured making its way along The Royal Mile towards St Giles Cathedral on September 12

Britons gathered in tribute as the carriage carrying the Queen’s coffin passed by on Monday

The Cut reported today that 41-year-old Meghan listed a ‘handful of princes and princesses and dukes who have the very arrangement they wanted’, although none of these royals are named in the article. 

And Meghan, speaking to New York-based features writer Allison P Davis, said: ‘That, for whatever reason, is not something that we were allowed to do, even though several other members of the family do that exact thing.’

Asked ‘Why do you think that is?’, she simply replied: ‘Why do you think that is?’, with the interviewer Davis saying that she said this ‘right back with a side-eye that suggests I should understand without having to be told’.

The article states that Harry and Meghan suggested to ‘The Firm’ that they should be allowed to work on behalf of the monarchy but make their own money, with the Duchess saying: ‘Then maybe all the noise would stop.’

The article says: ‘They also thought it best to leave the U.K. (and the U.K. press) to do it. They were willing to go to basically any commonwealth, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, anywhere.

”Anything to just … because just by existing, we were upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy. So we go, ‘Okay, fine, let’s get out of here. Happy to,’ ‘ she says, putting her hands up in mock defeat.

‘Meghan asserts that what they were asking for wasn’t ‘reinventing the wheel’ and lists a handful of princes and princesses and dukes who have the very arrangement they wanted.

”That, for whatever reason, is not something that we were allowed to do, even though several other members of the family do that exact thing.’

‘Why do you think that is? I ask. ‘Why do you think that is?’ she says right back with a side-eye that suggests I should understand without having to be told.’

The Duchess was asked during the interview whether forgiveness can exist between her and her own family as well as members of the Royal Family. 

She told The Cut: ‘I think forgiveness is really important. It takes a lot more energy to not forgive. But it takes a lot of effort to forgive. I’ve really made an active effort, especially knowing that I can say anything.’

The article also refers to Meghan’s estranged father Thomas Markle, a retired lighting director who now lives in Mexico.

The report said that Meghan discussed how two families had been ‘torn apart’.

And it quotes Meghan as saying: ‘Harry said to me, ‘I lost my dad in this process.’ It doesn’t have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that’s his decision.’