"Racism Did This:" Jason Arday's Uneducated Racist "Students" Learned One Thing From Him -- Just Blame Whites and The World Is Your Oyster

Any standards of qualification, performance, or public behavior have a "disparate impact" on some "communities" and are therefore racist.

The only "fair" and "equitable" standard is none at all. In order to be radically equitable, we must embrace feral savagery and anti-civilization.

How about no, Scott?

Roger Kimball:

Who was to blame? A curious subhead to a story in The Wall Street Journal seems to me to get the question completely wrong. "Jason Arday's academic rise and fall set off a debate about whether he was a plagiarist or victim of a racial witch hunt."

Are you, like me, sick of the left pretending that the Woke AF Wall Street Journal is "conservative"?

But that is a false dichotomy. There is no doubt that Arday was a plagiarist. And far from being the victim of "a racial witch hunt," he was the victim of his own lies and intemperate behavior. And let's not forget that his fabulations were directed not only at aggrandizing himself. He was also perfectly happy to play the race card to damage others, as when he complained to the police that journalists who were investigating his credentials were guilty of harassing him. The police duly opened a four-month-long investigation into a journalist who was simply going about his job.

Outside of certain mystery novels, where the villain is discovered and then presented with a weapon and a private moment to "do the right thing," suicide cannot help but be a shocking eventuality. One cannot--at least, I cannot--help but feel bad for Arday and his family, which includes his widow, two young children, and his parents. Nevertheless, I cannot exonerate him. Why? A multi-part inventory compiled on X and presented in clipped, asyndetonic style contains the answer. Here are some of the items, presented under the rubric "Be Jason Arday":

>claim police traced a severed pig's head at your parents' house to a butcher who'd sold a "whole hog" that morning

>have the butcher say no officer ever came in

>have the Met call the whole tale "categorically incorrect"

>say you're experiencing a modern day lynching on a podcast

>have the ASA make your speaking agency strip unbacked claims

>hire Carter-Ruck [a law firm] & get Times Higher Education to kill a finished story

>report their journalist to Scotland Yard for emailing you questions about your record

>have officers tell him to stop, your mental health was hurt

>report a retired professor too, have Devon & Cornwall decline to bother

>have the Met chief later admit "we dropped the ball on that one"

>get cleared by a panel you asked to weigh the "war on critical race theory"

>have 188 matching sentences called an honest & reasonable error

>do keynote on the playbook conservatives use to hunt black academics b/c beyond reproach

>have the Times find participant 11 in study is three different people

>have the same quotes come out of different mouths 25 times across three papers

>have false funding declarations

>have an outside expert say there is no question the plagiarism is extensive

>have a Cambridge autism professor send round "URGENT PLEASE SIGN ANTI RACISM LETTER"

>get 13,000 names & three Cambridge heads vouching for text they never read

>have Cambridge call it a "vile smear campaign"

>blame autistic mimicry, a l supervisor who left, & one you never met

>call the campaign racially motivated

>say "what I am not is a liar"

>turn 600 miles of margarine in six days into twelve

>have Anglia Ruskin edit your citation page the day the [Nathan] Cofnas piece dropped

>get Solent to delete the running claims

>have the TEDx video go private

>have your Jesus College page quietly turn Professorial Fellow into l Fellow & a Liverpool master's vanish

>have academics call for a regulator probe, have the Office for Students decline to comment

>have Cambridge open a probe into your qualifications & honorary appointments

>have Jesus College open its own

>quit both on the spot

>put the letter out through the Good Law Project

>have the letter promise you'll return stronger & wiser

>have the letter come back 100% AI

>have Jesus College drop its probe the moment you quit

>have the Good Law Project boss keep defending you, chalking it all up to neurodivergence

>have the ghostwritten memoir come out in the US anyway, after a 1.4m pre-empt

>have the UK edition still set for Aug 27

>have Cambridge order an outside audit of how you were ever hired

>have Durham & Glasgow open probes of their own

>commit suicide

>have people portray you as a victim?

Whatever else can be said about the "Jason Arday Affair," he was not the victim. Perhaps you can say he was the casualty, first, of his own mendacity and race-fired megalomania and second, of an educational establishment that, marinated in the anti-white, self-flagellating racial animosities of the moment, colluded in the construction of Arday's fantastical, self-aggrandizing, and ultimately self-destructive fantasies.

Kurt Schlichter on the latest race grift:

Fake Professor Jason Arday was found dead in the wake of being exposed as a complete fraud, and if it were my choice, he would still be alive and suffering the humiliation that should be the result of his crimes. I would prefer that he did not likely choose to kill himself instead of facing the consequences of his actions. My preference is irrelevant. If he decided to do himself in, it's crushing for his wife and kids, and that was a selfish, cruel, and stupid decision. But it was his decision, as was his decision to commit fraud upon fraud. I don't celebrate his death, and his death changes nothing. We're not going to stop rooting out the charlatans.

Of course, the entirely predictable response of the institutional left to his cowardly and apparent self-deletion has been to insist, loudly and with quivering outrage, that his death is our fault. You see, we normal people pointed out that he lied about his background, his achievements, his credentials, and his work. The fact that we did what a functioning institution should've done itself outraged his boosters, so these moral illiterates now invert the moral calculus to keep the exposure of academic fraud from happening again. Arday lied pathologically and endlessly, enabled by a ridiculously solicitous academia, then likely killed himself when his lies were exposed. Obviously, the villains are the people who did not lie and did not choose to end his life.

And you'll never guess their key accusation in a million years.

Okay, you guessed it: RACISM!

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But let's be serious about these condescending leftists. They knew Arday was a phony. They also knew he was useful. His existence supported their narrative, so that irritating objective truth thing could be dispensed with. But he was never their peer; he was their pet. They tried to make Jason Arday into something he wasn't -- an intellectual and a genius -- because he was a good-looking black guy with the kind of lengthy dreads that send a tingle down the legs of childless liberal wine women who spend their endless free time reading Ibram X. Kendi's tomes (that relic of Woke 1.0 is yet another clown whose scamming was too much even for left-wing academia to bear) and doing the work to ameliorate their appalling residual whiteness.

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The new party line is that we're to blame. It's our fault that Arday is dead. You see, if we hadn't told the truth about his many, many lies and exposed them, this never would have happened. And that's probably true, in a sense. He would've gone on being a celebrated icon of the left, though most of the left understood he was a joke and kept their laughter in check for the good of the movement.

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We're not going to play their game. We're not going to hold fire for fear of feelz. We're not going to ignore the truth lest the liar lash out at himself or others. Sometimes the truth hurts, but the only people the truth hurts are people exposed doing something they shouldn't be doing. The truth is more important than feelings. And the truth is more important than Arday's life. If the choice we are presented with is that Jason Arday will go on living a lie and degrading our civilization by doing so, or that Jason Arday might hurt himself, it's Option 2 every day of the week. We're not going to be held hostage or intimidated or shamed into silence and, therefore, complicity.

Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo

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Never forget that Arday sicced police and lawyers on people to silence them from reporting out his lies and plagiarism. It took very brave people to continue investigating when others were intimidated into stopping.

Arday killed himself once his house of lies finally collapsed under its own weight and he couldn't face the world to say two words: "I'm sorry."

From Jussie Smollett to George Floyd, leftists always pick unethical, violent and/or fraudulent people as their heroes.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:42 PM

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