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

On 8/16/26 4:06 PM, Dude wrote:
> 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!

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