Money won’t ‘buy him any love’

The Carnegie Mellon professor who induced a social media firestorm by wishing Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” loss of life on Twitter is now reigniting her feud with ultra-billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Uju Anya, the embattled affiliate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon College, fired again at Bezos days after the Amazon founder publicly slammed her remarks towards the deceased monarch.

“Uncle Stanley, don’t thoughts Jeff Bezos,” Anya tweeted, replying to a message from a consumer who requested her concerning the controversy. “It’s not my fault all his cash won’t ever purchase him any type of love or admiration not related together with his wealth.”

When requested by The Submit to supply an announcement on her present emotions towards Bezos, Anya replied “Tufiakwa!” — a Nigerian slang phrase which means “God forbid.”

Anya and Bezos first exchanged phrases final week after medical doctors declared they have been “involved” about Queen Elizabeth’s well being. Hours later, she handed away at age 96 whereas underneath medical care at Balmoral Citadel in Scotland.

“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is lastly dying,” Anya wrote in a tweet on Thursday. “Could her ache be excruciating.” 

The tweet was later eliminated for violating Twitter’s guidelines. However it drew an instantaneous rebuke from numerous customers, together with Bezos, who retweeted Anya’s publish and shared a scathing response.

“That is somebody supposedly working to make the world higher? I don’t assume so. Wow,” Bezos stated in response to Anya’s broadly criticized tweet.

Anya additionally fired again in opposition to Bezos on the time, writing, “Could everybody you and your cruel greed have harmed on this world bear in mind you as fondly as I bear in mind my colonizers.”

The Submit has reached out for Bezos’ remark via Amazon’s press workplace and to Carnegie Mellon for touch upon Anya’s newest remarks.

Anya, who was born in Nigeria and later moved to the US, stated she feels she is underneath risk on account of on-line rumors and criticism that emerged from her tweet.

“I really feel like my life is in peril. I don’t really feel secure anymore due to these lies being peddled round in opposition to me,” Anya stated in an interview with Nigeria-based newspaper The Punch on Sunday.

Anya’s employer, Carnegie Mellon College, distanced itself from her tweet in an announcement however didn’t specify whether or not she would face disciplinary motion.

“We don’t condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya right this moment on her private social media account,” CMU stated in an announcement.

“Free expression is core to the mission of upper training, nevertheless, the views she shared completely don’t characterize the values of the establishment, nor the requirements of discourse we search to foster,” the assertion added.

Not everybody has been essential of Anya’s harsh phrases towards the queen. 1000’s of scholars and lecturers expressed assist for her in a petition circulating this week, and “The View” panelist Sonny Hostin additionally agreed with the substance of her tweet.

Anya touched on her employment standing in a tweet posted on Monday.

“From what I’ve been instructed, there isn’t a plan to sanction or hearth me, and my job is just not in jeopardy,” she wrote. “My college management confirmed very clearly they didn’t approve of my speech; nevertheless, they stand in agency assist of my freedom of expression alone private social media.”