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

On 8/16/2026 4:35 PM, dart200 wrote:
> 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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