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

On 8/16/26 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:
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> dart200 <[email protected]> posted:
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>> On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:
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>>> Tara <[email protected]> posted:
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>>>> On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40 AM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>>> 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!

it should, but it won't

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