As Twitchy reported, Queen Elizabeth passed away Thursday at the age of 96. For lefty Twitter, it’s a chance to trash the queen for being a colonizer. We’re actually very saddened by the news: Anyone under age 70 doesn’t know of a time when she wasn’t Queen of England.
Newspapers usually have obituaries ready to go, with only the date to be filled in. The New York Times went a step further and had an opinion piece trashing the queen ready to go, written by a Harvard professor no less. To be more accurate, we should say that Maya Jasanoff trashed the British Empire, not the queen … go ahead and mourn the person, but don’t mourn for the era.
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"We should not romanticize her era," writes Maya Jasanoff, a professor of history at Harvard, in a guest essay. "The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged." https://t.co/3UIf76SriF
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 8, 2022
Yeah, read the room and shut up.
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) September 8, 2022
— GOPPouncer (@Mellecon) September 8, 2022
The NYT always sinks to the occasion.
— MattinWoolwich (@MattWWoolwich) September 8, 2022
Embarrassed for you.
— Chop Shop (@Chopshop2011) September 8, 2022
To publish that today is classless and petty. An era of class and grace is gone today. We can only dream of a life half as full of hers.
— Frank Gish (@FrankGish1) September 8, 2022
Totally inappropriate to publish this today, we should be mourning the passing of a great Monarch, cultural icon and one of the most amazing women who ever lived
— david mcmurtrie (@davidmcmurtrie) September 8, 2022
Could you just give it a day in respect for a life that has ended?
— Diane Sikes (@SikesDiane) September 8, 2022
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Just 2 days ago you published an OpEd lauding Mikhail Gorbachev, and not even 12 hours after the death of arguably the most influential female leader in modern world history, you publish this bit decrying her legacy. It's disgusting.
— Kate Padilla (@katempadilla) September 8, 2022
As an patriotic American, I find this distasteful and the timing shameful.
— Joshua Mead (@JoshuaMead) September 8, 2022
Sincerely hope your company folds
— Charlie Peters (@CDP1882) September 8, 2022
The timing of this article, mere hours after The Queen's passing, frankly sickens me.
— Michael Doyle (@DoyleofDarkness) September 8, 2022
May we never forget that Queen Elizabeth II presided over the terrible crime of *checks notes* decolonisation
— Frances Weetman (@francesweetman) September 8, 2022
You know we Brits are suckers for tradition, and the NY Times getting our culture absolutely wrong in the most embarrassing of ways is one of the most long-standing
— Frances Weetman (@francesweetman) September 8, 2022
Jasanoff is complaining about the bloody history of decolonization.
Couldn’t wait a day?
— Gee Oh Arr Dee Oh En, man (@GoOnReadDune) September 8, 2022
There’s few publications, if indeed any, as odious and hateful as the NYT. Shameful.
— Ben Brittain (@BenABrittain) September 8, 2022
I too have no sense of timing and enjoy patronizing people.
— Ben W. Ansell (@benwansell) September 8, 2022
Really classy NYT. But not unexpected.
— Julia – 21st Century Thought Criminal (@OculiVirides) September 8, 2022
Any journalist can offer praise to a beloved monarch who outlasted 13 American presidents.
Only the very special ones, like the opinion writers in the NY Times, need to throw dirt on her legacy before she is even put in the ground.
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) September 8, 2022
If she wanted academics to praise her when she died, she should've announced she was non-binary and/or a member of ISIS https://t.co/6xxgMeTH8g
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) September 8, 2022
This was totally predictable, and yet we’re still shocked. Seriously, couldn’t they have waited one day before the hit pieces?
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‘Hateful!’ Christopher Rufo takes blue-check prof/critical race theorist Uju Anya (who wished suffering on Queen Elizabeth) apart in BRUTAL threadhttps://t.co/11YdOqpu2d
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 8, 2022
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