Re: Jason Arday’s death is dreadful – and enr aging

dart200 <[email protected]> posted:

> On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:
> > 
> > Tara <[email protected]> posted:
> > 
> >> On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40 AM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason
> >>> Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless
> >>> machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made
> >>> him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’
> >>> and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin
> >>> story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now:
> >>> wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies.
> >>>
> >>> The death of Arday is not only dreadful – it is enraging. It feels like
> >>> a catastrophe foretold. Indeed, some of us wondered out loud if Arday
> >>> had friends around him as the media storm over his alleged fabulism grew
> >>> and went global. It was reckless in the extreme for the intellectual
> >>> elites to fashion a new ‘black genius’ and then say ‘Oops’ when his
> >>> carefully curated legend started to fray at the seams. They condemned
> >>> him with their fawning.
> >>>
> >>> This is the poison chalice of the state religion of diversity. It lays
> >>> traps for the very people it celebrates. It handpicks members of ‘the
> >>> oppressed’ for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving
> >>> them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. That’s
> >>> the toxic bargain of identity politics: it builds teetering pedestals
> >>> for ethnic-minority thinkers, meaning their fall from grace is often
> >>> twice as fatal.
> >>>
> >>> And what a pedestal they made for Arday. They worshipped him as ‘the
> >>> best in the world’. They beatified him as a black wunderkind whose very
> >>> presence in a place like Cambridge might help to wash away its sins of
> >>> whiteness. They canonised him as a living monument to ‘decolonisation’.
> >>> It was precisely this, their giddy, narcissistic desire to manufacture a
> >>> kind of black saviour, that made them turn a blind eye to the
> >>> questionable elements of Arday’s CV and life story. They sacrificed
> >>> their due diligence to the god of decolonisation.
> >>>
> >>> And Arday suffered. He was both poster boy and sacrificial lamb of the
> >>> diversity crusade. Even as he gained from it – reaching the dizzying
> >>> heights of a Cambridge professorship – he was being damned by it. The
> >>> foundation of myth and sand his starry career was built on was
> >>> untenable. Its collapse was a given. It is a testament to the
> >>> ideological blindness of the inhabitants of our ivory towers that none
> >>> of them foresaw it.
> >>>
> >>> This is where we cut to the rancid heart of identity politics. I have
> >>> seen it reported that some black thinkers had reservations about Arday
> >>> but they chose to keep them hidden. My God, their devotion to the cult
> >>> of diversity outweighed their concern for a friend in the grip of
> >>> fabulism. Propping up the edifice of identitarianism mattered more than
> >>> guarding a colleague from a coming tempest that was always going to be
> >>> as fierce as it was predictable. They preferred to bask in the
> >>> half-light of ‘black genius’ rather than look out for a black colleague.
> >>> The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
> >>>
> >>> Already, leftists are blaming the media for Arday’s death. Hacks hounded
> >>> him into despair, they say. I’m not having this. The media is the only
> >>> institution in this entire tragic scandal that did its job properly.
> >>> Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and
> >>> Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs. Who failed to prize
> >>> merit over identity, and failed to foresee the public embarrassment that
> >>> would befall their falsely promoted friend. They ignored the truth – the
> >>> media found it.
> >>>
> >>> I and others have been arguing for years that the politics of identity
> >>> is a disaster for all, black and white alike. White kids are overlooked,
> >>> black kids are patronised. Whites are branded ‘privileged’, blacks
> >>> ‘oppressed’. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who
> >>> must atone for past sins, blacks as history’s perma-victims who require
> >>> the gracious helping hand of the state. We are demonised or infantilised
> >>> according to the accident of our race.
> >>>
> >>> Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true
> >>> ideal of equality. We couldn’t save Jason but we can save merit from the
> >>> monstrous jaws of identity.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Brendan O’Neill
> >>
> >> YES!
> >>
> > "Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public inquiry
> > into media coverage surrounding the former Cambridge professor before his
> > death."
> > 
> > Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday 'witch hunt' - BBC, 8/16/2026
> 
> ya'll are racists
> 
That should wrap up this conversation!