'This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don't think so. Wow,' Bezos tweeted in response.
Amazon executive chairman, who is worth $131 billion, criticized a series of tweets by Carnegie Mellon linguistics professor Uju Anya in which she described the late Queen of England as the monarch of a"thieving raping genocidal empire" in a series of tweets on her death.
"This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don't think so. Wow," Bezos tweeted in response. A now-deleted tweet by Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya. The post was shared tens of thousands of times before being removed by Twitter for violating community guidelines.While the tweet to which Bezos responded was removed by the social media giant for violating its community policies, one survived, in which Anya appeared to respond to her critics.
More recent, however, was the Nigerian Civil War, which was spurred by ethnic divisions within the country at the close of British colonial rule in 1960. Britain supplied significant munitions to the Nigerian government in an effort to maintain the flow of oil from the country, and was reportedly involved in the hiring of mercenaries to fight on the side of the government.
"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," Anya wrote.