9 Sep 2022 1:45 am
One should never speak ill of the dead. Very bad manners. And cowardly.Cucurbitophobia » 08 Sep 2022, 6:34 pm » wrote: ↑ A university professor wished Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” death — and she was promptly slammed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying,”
Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University, wrote in a tweet on Thursday.
“May her pain be excruciating.”
According to an interview with Anya that Carnegie Mellon published in January, the linguistics professor was born in Nigeria, a British colony until 1960. She moved to the US when she was 10 and attended 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.”
https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/jeff-bezo ... ing-death/
