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

On 8/16/26 7:00 PM, Dude wrote:
> 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!
>>
>> u know u love my insults dud 😘
>>
> You came here to get enlightened?

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