Arday, who claimed to have been diagnosed with global developmental delay and autism spectrum disorder, was apparently unable to talk until the age of 11, and unable to read or write until he was 18. Despite this remarkable setback, by his early thirties he had begun writing and publishing academic papers, and he won his first academic post soon after....
We talked about Arday a few days ago, here. He was accused of plagiarism and various lies that made him a laughingstock. Now, apparently, he has killed himself. Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense.
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Don’t count him out yet.
Suicide by Plagiarism
How sad. A funny story turns into a tragic one. His obvious lies and plagarism were hidden by the academic elite, just one more reason not to have any respect for the Elite Univeristies or professors.
He may be the first person to DIE of DEI.
"Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense. "
Will they understand their culpability?
You cannot legitimately write "Despite this remarkable setback" for what was earlier referred to as a claim. Everything he claimed, literally everything, might be bullshit. The setback for him was being outed as a fabulist. Those who bought into it before elevating him--and they all knew or at least suspected it was bullshit--share complicity in his death. RIP.
BTW, Borat aka Sasha B. Cohen the zillionaire "Funny" man rushed to defend him when this scandal first came out and called everyone a 'raciss/fascist" for bringing it up.
Don't expect any apologies.
"I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense."
How many parents and teachers tell kids "You can be anything you want to be"? What sort of responsibility does that entail?
Death by 1,000 paper cuts?
Oh, Lawdy, Lawdy! Whatever we gonna do now. The brilliance, the scholarship, the inspiration to millions!
It now b all gone. And who dun dude this?
All 'em white crackers.
Token minority commits suicide - white self-hating virtue signaling elitist race-baiting liberals hardest hit.
You just know it's coming.
His apologists will pretend to mourn him so they can use his death to attack those who caught him.
It's all so tiresome.
"Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense. "
It's not just Cambridge, is it? Didn't he work his way through three of four other schools before landing at Cambridge?
There's only one person responsible for his suicide. Jason Arday.
Everyone who fell for his lies is a fool. Regardless of their degrees and academic stature.
"Borat aka Sasha B. Cohen the zillionaire "Funny" man rushed to defend him"
I think it was his cousin Simon Cohen, the noted autism researcher, who to his everlasting shame took at face value Arday's claim that he was a nonverbal autist until age 11, illiterate until 18, and then magically cured a la The Miracle Worker (except with less credibility since Helen Keller hadbeen verbal before her... scarlet fever? measles? whatever it was that rendered her deaf and nonverbal). I haven't heard any claim that the two of them ever even met.
It certainly seems to me that, as with long-distance psych diagnoses, Cohen's demand that everybody stop bullying the person with ASD because people with autism are more prone to suicidal ideation was unethical at best.
"I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense."
Yes. Certainly. And well said. One wonders, but scarce dares ask, what thoughts La Professora Emerita harbors re. hiring and advancement policies at her own place of previous employ.
Hmmmm…that poor man. It takes extraordinary resources to survive the public shaming that he endured. Few could do it. The system set him up to be destroyed. We’ll be hearing about him from race hustlers for the rest of our lives.
A victim of DEIversity. A selfie-abortion to relieve his "burden". RIP
Thomas Sowell talks about the damage social promotion and affirmitive action does to black students who really should be going to lesser schools.
In English culture suicide has long been an honorable way out of a sticky wicket. It has the effect of tidying up after yourself.
It takes extraordinary resources to survive the public shaming that he endured. Few could do it.
Yeah, I felt bad for mocking him. He had a really brutal week. I don't know if he was bipolar, but his highs and lows were pretty extreme.
Rest in peace, brother, and hopefully you will walk with God. All sins can be forgiven.
Rob: "He may be the first person to DIE of DEI."
Yeah, no, a lot of people have died of DEI: medical patients, crime victims, people on the wrong bridge at the wrong time, etc. CC, JSM
No shit. DEIsm ought to be classified as a WMD at this point.
The people pushing Arday apparently didn't give a rat's ass for him. One would think there would be people with him, or at least calling/texting him, nonstop during this crisis. Instead, they seem to have fled like it was Holy Thursday. CC, JSM
I wonder if his publisher made him repay his advance.
His fraud was pretty serious. They released the book, hoping to recoup some their investment. He was paid $1.4 million pounds. I don't know if they threatened to sue him to get that money back. I think it's highly likely.
Anyway, it's not just the public shaming that he got. He might have been in financial jeopardy, and maybe afraid of criminal jeopardy, if he couldn't pay them back.
So this con-man is a victim until the very end? Arday killed himself. Arday should be remembered as a successful con-man right up until he wasn't and then he took the coward's way out. The other lessons are that academic promotion panels may be smart, but they're not always very wise. Society should remember those two points more than they should remember anythinh else about Arday's life.
Good example - where were the NGOs to buy up all the copies? CC, JSM
'Jason was subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse'....after receiving his position, his family writes in a statement. All I can say is, he has more than returned the favor.
Sad. The poor guy could have been successful in any number of ways - but Cambridge needed a youngest ever Black professor. A lot of his story reminds me of those of Medieval saints- unbelievable miracles in youth, martyr's death.
The people pushing Arday apparently didn't give a rat's ass for him. One would think there would be people with him, or at least calling/texting him, nonstop during this crisis.
One of the most evil things about DEI is how it reduces people to race symbols. They didn't care for him, specifically, or his work. Apparently, they didn't even read his work. All they cared about what his skin color. It could have been anybody with black skin. They didn't care about reality. They cared about optics.
British blacks do seem to integrate into mainstream society differently from US blacks. Of course, British blacks, nonwithstanding the colonial/slavery history overseas, voluntarily immigrated to the UK, where there was no history of black slavery or Jim Crow, no "that's the tree where your granddaddy was lynched" or "that's where your uncle's store was until the peckerwoods burned it down."
And a big chunk of the Afro/Carib influx were trying to be more British than the Brits. The 'lace-curtain' faction that every immigrant group has is pretty big among black Brits. A lot of black immigrants were already middle-class in the old country, and brought a middle-class mindset to the UK. There is also more black/white intermarriage in the UK than the US. Finally, Afro/Carib implies there are at least two very distinct groups of black Brits: West Indians and West Africans, with recent, distinct memories and ties to their old countries.
All this is a lead-up into wondering if black British society doesn't have the 'my guy right or wrong' mode that black American society does. Maybe no UK black leaders were stepping up for this guy. CC, JSM
“ john mosby said...
The people pushing Arday apparently didn't give a rat's ass for him.”
Or for the education of their students.
Black pill? ☠
* They didn't care about reality. They cared about optics. *
Blue pill ad infnitum.
Mongo only pawn in game of life.
Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
Has anyone found a ounce of wisdom among the characters in this sad story? Is it just me that feels this way? What the actual hell is going on, anyway? This is even stranger than Newton's alchemy.
An ounce. I hate it when this happens.
….offs himself but Senator Liawatha waaay worse yet feels no remorse…
"What the actual hell is going on, anyway? This is even stranger than Newton's alchemy."
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - T.S. Elliot
Omnipotent. Moral. Busybodies. That's what's going on.
I'm not sure if the East London and West Essex Guardian is part of the Guardian newspaper.
Anyway, according to this rag...
Jason Arday’s family: ‘Campaign of misinformation was too much for him’
Maybe his family is saying that. I'm sure they are in shock and distress right now. But what makes me suspicious is this little line.
"In a statement issued by his publisher Simon & Schuster UK"
That's super-weird. The family's not talking to journalists? The family is talking to the book publisher, and the book publisher is talking to journalists?
I'm not saying anything about his family. My heart goes out to them in their time of loss and grief. I lost an uncle to suicide. It's really hard. God bless you and keep you.
But I do think it's pretty diabolical for somebody at the book publisher to attempt to use this death to attempt to drum up some money for a fraudulent book. Stop with the hype machine.
Don't top yourself after becoming a worldwide embarrassment. There's always a redemption arc.
Be more Fab Morvan and less Rob Pilatus.
The actual Guardian has some questions for his publisher. (This article was before the suicide, but still relevant, I think).
I don't buy the official narrative. Not until I see something from someone trustworthy.
I find it far more likely that he wasn't going to go quietly and the machine that lifted him up decided he was more useful as a suicide victim of bullying.
The USA is 13.5 percent black. The UK is 4 percent black. Further about 1/2 those are recent immigrants from Africa. When the UK get 13.5 percent black, we'll see how the UK handles it. And how the blacks behave.
So just how much fraud is there in academia today - over or under 50%?
When the standards are so low, the checks and balances so fraudulent, and the motivation for fake virtue so ingrained in the culture, it's got to be very common.
The British want large numbers of black immigrants because they've always been pro-black. Their big thing for 30 years from 1835-1865 was to sneer at the USA for having slaves when they didn't. Later they spent almost 100 years trumpeting how they treated blacks well, while we disciminated against them and practiced segregation.
They've imported a large black population and are determined to import millions more. In the UK you can be put in jail for 3 years for putting up a poster saying "its ok to be white". No one except for a few free spech advocates object.
In Michagan you had a white women fined for saying the "N word" - disorderly conduct. She's appealing. In England she'd be in jail for 1-3 years. With the majority of the English public approving.
Congratulations Cambridge, you just blew another hole in the value and respect the world has for successful Blacks in academia, especially from Cambridge. Very virtuous work.
Fake it til you break it.
Shit like what Cambridge did here is unforgivable. I've had my life saved more than once by very capable black surgeons, but I have to admit, before going under it always crossed my mind at least once about if they really earned the right to cut me open and move things around or if they were just pushed through. That's both reasonable and totally unfair, and it's not my fault.
Suicide is very believable. The guy was deeply attached to how others saw him, he knew it was all a lie, and so now what's left for him? It wouldn't be enough for me. I would just disappear and start a new life, but he may have been more attached to the old one than I would be.
Possible tribute song, "Himbo in the Wind".
but, did he REALLY die? or is this ANOTHER Fraud?
Why not interviewing the two main characters, namely
• Sally Morgan (head of appointment committee)
• Hilary Cremin (head of faculty of education)
Jason Arday's PhD: Does anyone know the names of the internal and external examiners?
A case can be made that it was unreasonable for Cambridge to check for plagiarism from an applicant's earlier PhD thesis from a different university. What is totally indefensible is that it's been reported that his CV since then was pathetically weak for any appointment, muchless for a tenured full professorship.
Anyone who thinks that the external reviewers that will be appointed to look into this will be any different than the internal ones is delusional.
Dude had family? They're almost as guilty as he is.
Was.
Sad, obviously. Apparently being respected at Cambridge meant something very important to him, and the fraud was (perhaps) not just a con game.
A true con man would have made the next play, and sold himself as the guy who conned all of the elites. I might have bought the book, and you could make a great movie.
This is true wolves in sheep‘s clothing behavior. All the outward trappings of love and compassion and displays of concern for the oppressed, but driven by a ravenous spirit to look good and virtuous with no care who they chew up to achieve it.
He was used and then discarded.
would have made the next play
Exactly, take the money and run.
"That's both reasonable and totally unfair, and it's not my fault."
The damage done by the DEI pushers in academic positions of power is incalculable. Do you think they have trouble sleeping at night?
Saint Croix pointed out the scam, when he said...
"..They released the book, hoping to recoup some their investment. He was paid $1.4 million pounds.."
and Now that he's dead.. it will PROBABLY become a best seller.
Get it? when he was "alive", the book was going nowhere.
now that he's "dead".. it will be REQUIRED Reading..
Who benifits from his "death"? Amazon? Jeff Bezos?
am i implying that Jeff Bezos PERSONALLY MURDERED him to make money.. No, No i am Not Implying it; i am Explicitly Stating it
The really sick part about all of this is how some in MAGA are celebrating his suicide on the message boards.
The British elite persuaded their own people not to have children because the planet, Gaia. Then they realized people were needed to keep society going so now they are importing West Africans to replace the native sons who were aborted. Then they wanted to show that these imports did not have an entirely different culture. Britain was not being colonized. So they promoted this man who understood exactly what to say to please the elite. And the deception was exposed. Then Jason Arday died of shame but no one at Cambridge will even feel bad. I expect they'll blame Trump. Or the Jews.
Original Mike said...
"That's both reasonable and totally unfair, and it's not my fault."
The damage done by the DEI pushers in academic positions of power is incalculable. Do you think they have trouble sleeping at night?
They used to be slave holders.
They just moved on to different types of slavery.
No they don't have trouble sleeping. They are evil people and always have been.
I don't feel at all 'bad' for mocking Mr Arday on X, not at all: if my tweets were part of what constituted the 'sustained abuse', 'unacceptable public hounding', and 'pernicious public shaming' he 'suffered' (the Guardian article is quoting people), well, I'm sure the socialists/progressives/whatevers are drafting a law to penalize such remarks for the benefit of the next frauds.
*The really sick part about all of this is how some in MAGA are celebrating his suicide on the message boards.*
And how did I know you just couldn't pass up the opportunity to make this about Trump and/or his supporters ... when all the blame for this guy and his actions can be laid at the feet of everybody BUT Trump and/or his supporters.
It’s probably a good idea to check in on Ta-Nehisi Coates now. Just sayin’
mezzrow said, "Is it just me that feels this way? What the actual hell is going on, anyway? This is even stranger than Newton's alchemy."
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What RideSpaceMountain said. The people at these institutions have been elevated to the status of arbiters of culture and moral authority. They have been yelling for decades that culture is relative, equality of outcomes is worth every sacrifice, and everything is a social construct. The information explosion is destroying every mutligenerational falsehood almost on a weekly basis now, and they're getting desperate. They're not looking so omnipotent now. They've ceased caring about what's ethical and now all they're concerned with is power. The more time that passes the more and more people will catch on that the busybodies dont deserve what they've got. I've always loved that TSE quote. So true.
"Do you think they have trouble sleeping at night?"
Aside from worrying about finding the next Arday, no.
When you're advancing someone on criteria other than merit in the humanities I really don't care. In fact, you can argue, 'what is merit'? (I guess) But when you're doing it in medicine, or engineering, it is beyond the pale stupid, shading into evil.
the house of lies crumbled on top of him.
It's very sad - but he built that house.
Word is he was found with a noose and a Subway footlong, and "MAGA country" was scrawled on the wall in ketchup... in Cambridge.
All the white leftist females who propped him up - they are to blame.
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Justin Murphy
@jmrphy
"The fever dreams of boomer white leftist female university administrators may turn out to be more lethal than we ever imagined, as they begin to intersect with AI-era truth equilibration. How many thousands will die from the unbearably efficient rectification of names?"
The quote about tyrannies that RSM gives is not from T S Elliot, or even T S Eliot. It was C S Lewis.
As for the fraud, we have to remember that it was the Ed School that hired him, not a real department.
"British blacks, nonwithstanding the colonial/slavery history overseas, voluntarily immigrated to the UK, where there was no history of black slavery or Jim Crow."
Yeah, I suppose that's true so long as you avoid knowing where those who financed a great deal of the slave trade and where a sizable percentage of the owners of those Caribbean plantations lived. Royal African Company, Barclays Bank, Bank of England, et alia.
How do we know that the Clintons aren’t responsible?
I'd assume it's a play for attention.
Right, that's why I said "the colonial/slavery history overseas." But of all the black slaves owned by British companies, only tiny numbers ever set foot in Britain, where they would have instantly become free after Lord Mansfield's ruling. There was never de-jure Jim Crow in the UK, and even de-facto didn't have much time to develop before Britain made its own equal rights laws.
Sure, a Nigerian or Jamaican coming to London would be able to say "all this was built with money they made lashing my ancestors' backs." But that's much more removed than "every day I drive to work past the Charleston Slave Market." CC, JSM
I read the NYT obit. It was charitable and sympathetic. If, during her ordeal, Amanda Knox had killed herself, I'm pretty sure a different moral would be drawn.......Jason's suicide seems to me one last self aggrandizing act in a life of self aggrandizement. " No one has suffered like I have suffered. Look what I have suffered and it's all your fault." A fair number of people will take this as the appropriate moral to be drawn from this case.
Britain's big literary prize, the Booker Prize for novels, was in trouble because the Booker company was founded on the sugar trade. Slavery had been abolished when the company was founded, but it benefited from exploitative labor practices, and the founders had been slaveowners earlier.
Imposters and con men aren't always the same. Con men and grifters have their eyes on the financial prize. Imposters can get caught up in their role and in the joys of role playing. The imposture is its own reward. One can slip from imposter to grifter and vice versa. Frank Abagnale Jr, of Hollywood fame, played a lot of grifts and defrauded a lot of people to keep his impostures going.
The usual suspects want to believe that he was offed by White Supremacists.
The family suggests that he was driven to suicide by misinformation about his plagiarism. It will be Jussie Smollett all over again.
Race hustlers gonna hustle.
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A lot of black immigrants were already middle-class in the old country, and brought a middle-class mindset to the UK.
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This is also true of recent black immigrants from West Africa and the Caribbean. They dislike the rap/hip-hop/thug culture of American blacks, and positively loathe their disdain for education and productive work and law-abiding good behavior. A Ghanaian doctor I know refused to let his kids socialize with American blacks in any way outside of school hours. Educated black immigrants like him are often from relatively powerful, educated, and prosperous backgrounds in their home countries, and in the case of the West Africans, they quite frequently come from the same slave-trading tribes that gleefully made war on their neighbors and sold them to the white man two hundred years ago. Their contempt for American blacks has a component of tribalist snobbery due to the Americans' ancestral history of coming from slaves instead of slave-traders.
There are sufficient actual tragedies in the world (see the 7 year old boy tortured and killed by his three transgender "mommies" in Ohio) for me to give this guy a second thought.
Hassayamper said...
"..they quite frequently come from the same slave-trading tribes that gleefully made war on their neighbors and sold them to the white man two hundred years ago. Their contempt for American blacks has a component of tribalist snobbery due to the Americans' ancestral history of coming from slaves instead of slave-traders.."
what's that word that i'm looking for? oh yeah! reparations!
hah! just kidding! only White People are responsible for the actions of their ancestors
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Tunku Varadarajan
@tunkuv
"Let's not sanctify poor Jason Arday in death the way he was overhyped by his cherishers in life. This is a tragic end to a tawdry and disgraceful story. The worst actors here were his enablers. He was a charlatan, not a criminal. His enablers were moral and ideological scum."
Every single professor who hired, tenured, and promoted Arday should have tenure revoked and be fired for academic dishonesty. Either they didn't read his 'work' at all and just passed him along (which I think is the most likely case) or they did and somehow didn't notice that it was invented crap, in which case they are themselves frauds unfit to do their jobs.
Don't give me the garbage excuse that "nobody checks every footnote in a Ph.D." Although no one, pre-AI, was looking up every source to see if it actually existed, but you were still doing a ton of "checking" because you work in the same area of research and either would recognize the cited scholarship (and would want to make sure it was being understood properly and that the key items were mentioned) or would be interested in, and therefore making notes about and checking out, brand new, relevant scholarship.
What the F do these people do all day if there's not enough time to read their own student's work and to have read enough relevant material in their own field to be able to recognize immediately that things are being made up?
The focus should absolutely not be on Jason Arday himself. His being removed from academia is the appropriate result, even though the manner of that removal is tragic. But there need to be very real consequences for the people who enabled and perpetuated this fraud, or we really are heading into 1536 and just like then, no one will care when the monks get sent home and the buildings used for other purposes.
And all the people who signed the letter defending Arday should have a "reprimand" (or whatever Cambridge calls it) that excludes them from roles in which good judgment is required.
(i.e., they can continue their research, possibly even their teaching depending on circumstances--I wouldn't trust them to grade, but maybe they could lecture--but no positions at the university in which they must judge or evaluate other people: they have demonstrated either their incompetence or their dishonesty).
Prof. M. Drout said...
Every single professor who hired, tenured, and promoted Arday should have tenure revoked and be fired for academic dishonesty.
Not enough.
Every asset of Cambridge including pension funds and property should be confiscated, sold off, and used to pay off student loans or the money refunded to taxpayers.
The same thing should happen to every University that received any type of public funding or loaded students up with non-dischargeable student loans.
Old judgments. New labels. Incorporated under the DEI umbrella.
Looks like another one of these. When the con comes crashing down and you can only see life at the bottom of the ladder in your future, then it's tempting to forego all that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Friedrich_(fraudster)
Jasan Arday called the police because a journalist had asked him questions.
I get that he's feeling stressed, and attacked. Because he committed a lot of fraud, and people were starting to look into it.
What I don't get, is this belief that he had that the police would be on his side, and would try to silence the journalist and the other people asking him questions. Normally criminals don't call the cops.
But what made it super-weird is the cops did his bidding! They went to the journalist and investigated him.
Now we know why. The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is in charge of the racist police. And they do his bidding.
Althouse writes, "Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense."
Which university is that, Liverpool John Moores University, the esteemed center of higher learning that granted Arday a doctorate based on a few dozen pages of pseudo-scholastic drivel, stolen drivel one might add? Or is it Durham University, yet another esteemed institution, that gave him a associate professorship on the questionable strength of that bogus decree? Or is it those Cambridge dons and donnas who took a gargantuan steaming shit on 800 years of academic integrity just to bolster their already well-established hate-whitey credentials?
Yet Claudine Gay, Jussie Smollett, Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, et Al. Still live.
"Everyone who fell for his lies is a fool. Regardless of their degrees and academic stature."
It appears that plenty of people did not fall for his lies. They simply judged that it was not in their interest to challenge him at the present time. So, they aren't idiots. They're just poseurs. Any respect they are given is undeserved, and any money they receive is unearned.
This individual seems to have it right:
“Tunku Varadarajan
@tunkuv
Let's not sanctify poor Jason Arday in death the way he was overhyped by his cherishers in life. This is a tragic end to a tawdry and disgraceful story. The worst actors here were his enablers. He was a charlatan, not a criminal. His enablers were moral and ideological scum.”
Nothing is going to vome of this, of course.
Funny how sometimes fraud is a crime.
Althouse writes, "Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense."
Though it smacks of blaming a car theft on the absentminded motorist who left his keys dandling in the ignition, I must agree with Althouse with one big caveat: Althouse wants to blame one university, presumably Cambridge, for the Arday debacle, whereas the blame must be shared by virtually college and university in the Anglosphere, if not the whole of the West. Arday was just the boldest of the frauds. If not Cambridge, it would have been Oxford. If not Oxford, it would have been the Sorbonne. The universities have been captured by the mortal enemies of the Western Mind. Their method is dis-education; their weapons are instructors and administrators with no allegiance to truth or the pursuit of truth. Jason Arday was the perfect weapon, therefore it was Cambridge that gave him a chair, and not one of the second or third tier schools.
And now he's gone. Too bad for civilization. Dead Arday cannot be brought before any tribunal. His filthy reputation is already being washed by the myth-makers, and a thousand Ardays are ready to don his gown and hood as soon as the rumblings die down. The only salvation of the Western Mind is a ruthless purge of the institutions. The gutters must flow with metaphorical blood. Can it be done?
“Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense.”
It’s not like he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He was made a professor of Sociology of Education. If he plagiarized stuff, that just means he copied someone else’s nonsense instead of making up his own. In context, that seems like just a little white lie (oops, can we still use that expression?). He still fulfilled the main mission of the position ( heh): making Cambridge look a little less racist. So really, it’s racism that’s to blame for his death. Meaning all of us.
Dis-education is the systematic process of becoming dis-informed, or the inculcation of disinformation, which is the goal of totalitarian propaganda. Musk calls this the mind virus. I call it dis-education. There is no practical difference, just different metaphors.
Arday’s tragic death will be the excuse to sweep his academic life into the bin and to bring to an end any investigation into the manner of his hiring. Nil nisi bonum and all that. The guilty were always going to get off Scot free anyway. Any self-reflection on the part of the academy is for the purpose of weaseling out of any responsibility. Turku Vardarajan’s description of them as ‘moral scum’ is too kind.
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The left has come to blindly gaslight their own -- this applies to DEI, transgender, and other grievance categories. They think they are being helpful but don't even know what help is -- twisted self-indulgence, vanity, and predatory BS dressed up as compassion.
Arday may have actually believed in himself until the crowd turned on him...he came across as cognitively challenged but bold.
You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, and fool yourself whenever you want. Latent character defects and mental illnesses won't go away, however.
Milli Vanilli all over again. Another life lost by acting another part.
Score: one hysterical suicide by a caught-out liar against millions of careers and lives destroyed by affirmative action.
I'm not shedding tears.
I am flummoxed as to why this entire story about him rose to such intense international attention. I understand what happened, but why does it garner so so much discussion? It’s almost like it was used to purposefully push something else off the news cycle, to me.
That said, RIP Mr Arday.
My dad's manager couldn't even speak standard English and abused him daily. My dad was a quiet man raised in a fake foster-care workhouse. His *boss* fucked with him until he had a heart atteck. Screw anyone who has used affirmative action to get a job. And I mean everyone. Every single one can go to hell. They almost killed my father. I have another hundred examples. Feel bad?
“It’s not like he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.”
No, but would it surprise anyone at this point to discover math professors on the Cambridge faculty who are scarcely capable of doing integral calculus but have the “right” skin color?
This is a point Justice Clarence Thomas has made endlessly — Affirmstivd Action (and DEI, ehich is merely Afformative Action plus illegal quotas) has the affect of calling into question the accomplishments of every black person.
MS NOW is dis-education.
Suicide is ethically justifiable when an individual faces certain death that will be more painful than the suicide and/or faces circumstances that create a high likelihood that continued life will result in enormous harms to innocents.
I suppose that suicide caused by mental illness is morally neutral. Perhaps Mr Arday fits in that category.
“It’s not like he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.”
Don't look now, but we're nearly there already
He did not kill himself, but he is taking credit for it.
Arday may have actually believed in himself
I think he did. He played by the academic rules and won, no one told him he was doing anything wrong. Yeah, he was likely nuts, but he wasn't criminal, or even unusual in the field.
"This is a point Justice Clarence Thomas has made endlessly — Affirmstivd Action (and DEI, ehich is merely Afformative Action plus illegal quotas) has the affect of calling into question the accomplishments of every black person."
I vividly remember making this point, using the word 'stigma', as a freshman in a college class discussion, and getting ridiculed, as in "What are you talking about? That's ridiculous!" At the time I was still a liberal (that's how I was raised), but on my way to becoming a conservative. During my sophomore year I read Milton Friedman and Edmund Burke, among others, and that cemented my shift.
"I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense."
Me too.
And the brighter the spotlight grew the mare glaring the flaws that Cambridge sought to hide.
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