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

On 8/16/2026 10:33 AM, dart200 wrote:
> 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
> 
You're the asshole that called Jason a nigger!
 >