Wishes, Blame, and an Excruciating Death

Commentary
When Queen Elizabeth II, 96 years old, was close to death, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University called Uju Anya, whose areas of inquiry include “applied linguistics as a practice of social justice and translanguaging in world language pedagogy,” published her desire that the Queen should die an excruciating death.
Surprisingly for someone who thought it fit to utter so vile a sentiment in public, Anya looks rather a nice person. Of course, someone can look nice without being nice, but in all probability she is, in general, a nice person.
What, then, caused her to emerge from her obscurity into the light of publicity with her unpleasant outburst? The short answer is adherence to ideology and dishonest abstract ideas….