Jeff Bezos urged to 'stay quiet' following tweet about Queen's death

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Jeff Bezos got embroiled in a Twitter spat with a professor who accused the Queen of genocide.The Amazon founder was then the subject of severe criticism from users of the social media platform, who slammed his own billionaire legacy.Bezos reacted to a post from Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya that read: "I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying.

May her pain be excruciating."READ MORE:Queen Elizabeth II to be reunited with Prince Philip as final resting place confirmedHe responded: "This is someone supposedly working to make the world better?

I don’t think so. Wow."But some Twitter posters then condemned his controversial business practices and vast wealth, with one commenting: "Cheer up.

You’ve got 30, maybe 40 years to shed your wealth and bend public memory such that children are not celebrating in the streets when the news comes that you’ve passed."Another added: "You should probably stay quiet when it comes to critiques of empire and its overlords" whilst a third declared: "May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonizers." Others, though, leapt to the defence of Bezos and the monarch who passed away yesterday aged 96 at Balmoral Castle.One labelled the professor "uncouth and mannerless" and accused her of having "hate in your heart"."You speak of someone who just passed with such a vile and disdaining comment," they continued.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.Another poster insisted: "At the end of the day she was a mother, grandmother, a great grandmother.