Sad but Not Surprising: Professors, Politicians and The New York Times Speak Ill of the Queen and Her Legacy

townhall.com ^ | 9/9/2022 1015 hrs edt | Rebecca Downs

[rktman]

Even before Queen Elizabeth II was officially confirmed dead, her haters were dancing on her grave. We're not just talking random Twitter users, but a verified professor, Uju Anya of Carnegie Mellon, as our friends at Twitchy highlighted throughout Thursday. While many current and former world leaders, including from the United States, have sent their condolences, those Australian politician Mehreen Faruqi's rang hollow, as she brought up colonization in a tweet, and then restricted replies.

Then there's the media. The New York Times even had an op-ed ready to go criticizing the queen after her death, this one by Harvard's Professor Maya Jasanoff. They were thoroughly criticized on Twitter for such timing.

When it comes to Professor Anya's tweets, we're not just talking about how she wished suffering on the queen, which she did, something Jeff Bezos was shocked and appalled enough about to weigh in on. That tweet in question was bad enough for Twitter to take down, though as Kyle Becker pointed out, it was because Twitter acknowledged it was making the left look bad, and should thus have been left up.

The tweet in question read "I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating."

[rustyboots]

If it were not for those “evil” colonial invaders who took the land and killed “half” of her people, she would have woken up this morning in a thatched roof mud hut. For thousands of years, nothing seems to have advanced south of the Sahara. Civilization started in the Middle East and Asia(China) and spread out thousands of years before those evil people committed such crimes. Why did civilization stop at the Sahara? Too big to cross? People sailed the African Coast, but again, no advancement? I know this may make me seem racist, but I get tired of today being blamed for what happened thousands of years ago.

[rktman]

Understood.