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The Professor Who Caused An Uproar By Wishing The Queen "Excruciating" Pain On Twitter Is Defending Her Position

Uju Anya, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who sparked backlash after her tweet wishing Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating” pain went viral, is defending her position, saying in a statement that “I stand by what I said.”
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On Friday, Anya told The Cut her email inbox was flooded with hateful messages, with subject lines that “all start with the N-word, ****, genetically inferior.”

But Anya continued to defend her beliefs. “There’s not going to be any apology from me,” she said on Friday. “I stand by what I said.” On social media, she has retweeted more posts discussing the horrific impacts of British colonization.