Queen Elizabeth II's death yesterday kicked off a wild day on Twitter, with some mourning her passing but many posting memes and celebratory jokes at her passing. One of the main reasons for the revelry stems from the belief that the Queen ruled during some of the colonialist atrocities committed by the British Empire and is accused of protecting her son Prince Andrew from allegations that allegedly tied him to Jeffrey Epstein.

While many recalled problematic aspects of the Queen upon her death, Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya tweeted, "I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping, genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating."

As far as celebratory tweets about the Queen's death go, Anya's came off as quite harsh to many, but it points to issues with the Queen and the British Empire people around the world expressed following her passing (at any rate, it's a more academic expression of schadenfreude than some posted yesterday). However, it became newsworthy only after Jeff Bezos decided to single out and condemn the tweet.

This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow. https://t.co/2zoi6CdFMq

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) September 8, 2022

This caused an expected chain reaction as conservatives and royalists condemned Anya's tweet while many voiced their support for Anya and commended her honesty. Bezo's tweet also notably led Carnegie Mellon to distance itself from Anya's posts. At the time of writing, it appears no further action has been taken by the university.

A statement regarding recent social media posts by Uju Anya. pic.twitter.com/NinpPa4rZg

— Carnegie Mellon University (@CarnegieMellon) September 8, 2022

Still, it struck many as odd that Bezos would single out one particular woman for her harsh expression of "good riddance" on Twitter, considering he is a celebrity as one of the world's richest men and she is a college professor. It wasn't long before Twitter came up with a theory that Bezos purportedly singled out Anya because she is an outspoken supporter of Amazon's unionization efforts.

No wonder Jeff Bezos came for her. I have been wondering what the probabilities are that a man who hardly tweets at all would quote Uju Anya's tweet. She was a sympathizer of the group that raised the big dust on Amazon's treatment of its employees. Wow! https://t.co/HhdZiCFkeo

— Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera (@ChukwuderaEdozi) September 9, 2022

Though Anya deleted the tweet that caught Bezos' attention, she did not back down from her stance toward the Queen and the British Empire. She told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 reporter Marcie Cipriani:

I am the child and sibling of survivors of genocide. From 1967-1970, more than 3 million civilians were massacred when the Igbo people of Nigeria tried to form the independent nation of Biafra. Those slaughtered included members of my family. I was born in the immediate aftermath of this genocide, which was directly supported and facilitated by the British government then headed by the monarch Queen Elizabeth II. This support came through political cover, weapons, bombs, planes, military vehicles, and supplies the British government sent to kill us and protect their interests in the oil reserves on our land. My people endured a holocaust, which has shadowed our entire lives and continues to affect it, because we're still mourning incalculable losses and still rebuilding everything that was destroyed. Conversations among us today still include who was lost, who was displaced, where people ran, where bodies are buried. They do not include kind, respectful, or temperate sentiments about the people who murdered our relatives and destroyed our lives.

She also fired a strong shot back at Bezos following his contentious tweet.

Otoro gba gbue gi.

May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonizers.

— Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) September 8, 2022

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.

— Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) September 8, 2022