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

On 8/16/2026 1:51 PM, dart200 wrote:
> On 8/16/26 1:18 PM, Dude wrote:
>>
>> dart200 <[email protected]> posted:
>>
>>> On 8/16/26 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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!
>>>
>>> it should, but it won't
>>>
>> You just can't seem to stop talking about Jason Arday.
>>
> 
> and u just can't seem to stop being a racist nigger
> 
That's a wrap for sure. Good work, Nick!