Humza Yousaf | Facebook - "Jason Arday made a mistake, he resigned and yet he was hounded relentlessly by sections of the press - despite saying he had reached the limits of what any person should reasonably be expected to endure. We know why certain sections of the media decided to pursue him, even after his resignation. If there is no accountability, then nothing will ever change. My thoughts are with Jason's family, his partner and children, who will now grow up without their father."
Comments: "He did not make a mistake. He deliberately lied . He was not hounded he was exposed. It’s a big difference"
"A mistake is putting salt in ya tea instead of sugar"
"Is there no bandwagon you would refuse to jump on?๐คท"
"A mistake is doing something once"
"Tell me hamza did you post anything about Ann widdecombe ๐๐ก"
"So, should the Farage investigation be dropped, considering the press coverage it's had?"
"Is that a similar mistake to not spotting a motorhome on mum-in-law's drive ?"
"Apologised to the Dundee Girls yet? You didn't mind hounding totally innocent children."
"A mistake like forgetting you need car insurance to drive a car you mean?"
"No accountability? The irony"
"Of course the media coverage had nothing at all to do with the police harassing the reporter right. Truth is truth and no-one should be held "accountable" for truth no matter how uncomfortable."
"A mistake is turning left instead of right, but it can be rectified at the next junction not just ignored and carrying on."
Dr Aseem Malhotra on X - "I’m saddened by this beyond words. I’m also disgusted by white supremacist colonialists who deliberately amplify the mistakes of a black man whilst ignoring the systemic structural racism that’s the much bigger issue that supersedes by orders of magnitude the injustice of ‘wokism’"
Dave Van de Walle on X - "This could have been avoided. Start by not calling everyone who disagrees with you a "white supremacist colonialist," then follow that up by vetting individuals before placing them on a pedestal that they are woefully ill-equipped to be on. Cambridge has blood on its hands."
Carl Benjamin ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ on X - ""I’m also disgusted by white supremacist colonialists who deliberately amplify the mistakes of a black man whilst ignoring the systemic structural racism that’s the much bigger issue..." They're just flagrantly politicising his death. Despicable."
Apparently white people colonised the UK. The left's lies get bigger and bigger, just like Arday's
Normally left wingers claim extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Of course, asking proof of a black man who claims literally impossible things who is pushing the left wing agenda is racist bigotry and harassment
ontario
Instagram - "Jason Arday was a victim of DEI. That racialist, philistine ideology built him up on the basis of very little and then let him fall hard and fast. Black academics and writers had reservations about him but they kept them hidden. All that mattered was the promotion of what they told us was a black genius who would dazzle the world and put white Britain to rights. Then, when it inevitably fell apart — it was always inevitable — they threw him out. They were done with their prodigy. He had become a liability to their anti-intellectual project of “decolonising” our institutions. He was an “aberration”, as they said at Cambridge. It’s unclear whether there was any compassionate follow-up once he resigned, but it doesn’t seem that there was. People will blame the media. But the media did its job — it found a story and told it. It was the academy, Arday’s colleagues and possibly even his friends who didn’t do their jobs. They knew the Arday phenomenon was wrong but they let it continue, because to them basking in the half-light of “black genius” was more important than asking what might happen to Jason when it all unravels. The media has merely been inquisitive — it’s the institutions of academia that have been cruel and narcissistic. Wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies. RIP Jason"
Cambridge University Amnesty International CUAI | Facebook - "Cambridge University Amnesty International is devastated by the news of Jason Arday’s passing. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, and all those whose lives he profoundly shaped. Arday was a pioneering scholar whose work illuminated the realities of racial inequality in education and beyond. His loss is felt not only within Cambridge, but across the wider academic and human‑rights communities. As a society committed to defending human dignity, we strongly condemn all forms of bullying, racialised aggression, and discriminatory conduct. Jason Arday’s death has prompted urgent reflection on the structural pressures faced by Black academics, including the disproportionate scrutiny that often accompanies their presence in academic spaces. These are not isolated incidents but symptoms of deeper systemic issues within academia that must be confronted directly. We call on the University and the wider sector to continue upholding their promise to stand for anti-racism, confront prejudice, and continue to recognise under-appreciated minority ethnic talent throughout their academic journeys. We stand in solidarity with all those working to build an academic environment where every scholar is valued and able to thrive. If anybody is affected by these difficult events, CU Amnesty is always willing to offer its support."
Comments: "“…the disproportionate scrutiny…” ๐ค It emerges that his CV didn’t receive as much scrutiny it should have done. "
"Do yall also condemn lying?"
"Reflections on the structures affecting black academics? You mean the favouritism? Woke response to unchecked DEI"
"He’s survived worse!"
"They’ll be banning scrutiny of non-white people next. Their once prestigious product is now a laughing stock around the world. Let them."
"When you say ”pioneering”, you you mean in the sense of pioneering lies, falsehoods, fraud and plagiarism? If so I fully agree."
"I suppose I could Google all the white academics who've been hounded from their jobs for daring to question the 'woke' zeitgeist. Where was Amnesty International then?"
"How does Amnesty International feel about people who turn the police on to journalists who uncover their wrongdoing? You used to care about shit like that...."
"Apparently if you're left wing it's okay to make up your entire life and it is discrimination to point out the lies. What a great example you are setting."
"When the truth catches up with lies and woke policies, you blame the messenger and not the perpetrator... dear oh dear."
Sarah Joseph | Facebook - "I didn’t know Professor Jason Arday. But what I do know is that an autistic Person of Colour was subjected to relentless public scrutiny, ridicule and attack, and now he is dead. I have actually been dreading (and indeed waiting for) this news. It was blindingly obvious to anyone who has loved or cared for an autistic person that this level of sustained, public pressure would become too much to bear. Cambridge has serious questions to answer about its duty of care. And those sections of the media that relentlessly hounded and humiliated him should reflect very seriously on the human consequences of what they participated in. In fact, we should all reflect on what type of world we are allowing to be created."
Autistic people can't be put in positions of responsibility. Good job.
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu - "For God’s sake Jason Arday has children! Are these monsters trying to kill his children like they killed their father!!! Arday’s grieving family are constituents of MP Bell Riberio-Addy and she has had to call the police on media presence outside their home, reporting from their home and hounding family members! The Police had to push them back yesterday!! What the actual hell is wrong with these people?????? The media actually posted his address in published articles!!!! I’m so angry right now I’m shaking.
Left wingers just keep making stuff up, because they know that their base doesn't care. And if you challenge them on their lies, you're the problem (this is what happened with Arday too). Naturally, she cheered Charlie Kirk's death
mary beard on X - "Maybe at the moment we should all (me included) take a break from any discussion of Cambridge's policies, and reflect on the tragic human costs -- and remember with compassion the person who paid a dreadful price."
Fred Sculthorp on X - "You can't just do this "oh golly, oh gosh, how awful" act and then go back to wittering away on the One Show sofa with David Olusoga et al pretending like nothing has happened. You are part of a wider culture that aided and abetted him up the garden path I'm afraid."
Iron Heretic on X - "Maybe Mary we should behave like adults. Lying is wrong. Plagiarism is wrong. Fraud is wrong. Refusing responsibility for your choices is wrong. Suicide is wrong and tragic. Asking questions, investigating credible allegations is right. Exposing fraud and deception is right. Telling the truth is right. Now the repulsive inversion: because Jason is black the wrong is right, while the people who exposed it are recast as villains. Had Arday been white, these same people would know wrong from right and applauded the journalists. Skin colour cannot turn wrong into right, truth into persecution, or accountability into racism. Grief deserves compassion. Truth still deserves defending."
Me on X - "My brother was hounded beyond belief by the DWP and local authority trying to strip him of is benefits even though he had medical evidence of is spinal problem and metal health issues. No comparison from anyone when he committed suicide.Probably because he was white working class"
Douglas Coombes on X - "We remember your compassionate reflections on 9/11."
Shorea on X - "If Cofnas had taken his life a few years back, would you be saying the same?"
Venice Allan on X - "The people who enabled Jason Arday’s lies will blame the people who exposed them."
Jason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead - "Arday’s family said in a statement: “Jason was subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse for more than three years since he accepted the role of professor at Cambridge University by those who would leave no stone unturned in their quest to undermine him. “The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, who was a gentle man and who always wanted to see the best in everyone."... “We won’t comment further at this point beyond asking the press to leave us alone now, and to stop the campaign of harassment which has been waged against Jason and his family for too long.” The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “I’m devastated for the family and friends of Jason Arday. He faced an unacceptable public hounding and campaign of abuse. I know many Londoners will be angry and upset this evening. “Jason Arday was the victim of a pernicious public shaming that other people in his position simply wouldn’t have faced. His death was a tragedy, but once again it should be a wake-up call for all of us.”... After initially defending Arday as the victim of a smear campaign, as further questions arose about his academic career, the university began to temper its support... Arday’s memoir, entitled Great and Unfortunate Things, was published this week in the US by an imprint of Simon & Schuster, with UK publication scheduled for later this month."
Sounds like they were complicit in his lies.
Comment (elsewhere): "Just a reminder that the 'sustained abuse' was literally basic fact-checking of his story."
As usual, to left wingers harassment and abuse means exposing their lies
Left wingers are denouncing Cambridge for not supporting him. Apparently they should've ruined their reputation even more and for even longer by continuing to cover for his lies
Arday probably didn't want to see more of his lies being exposed, with the book coming out
Celina101 on X - "A Black Cambridge professor dies after resigning amid explosive plagiarism allegations, and the British political and academic class immediately starts talking about racism. Aaron Dugmore was nine years old. He was one of the few White children in a school where roughly 75% of pupils were non-White. His family said he was subjected to racial abuse, including being told that “all the white people should be dead”, before he was found with a cord around his neck. Britain never made his name a national cause. Ask yourself why."
Outrage over Arday: Nothing for the White 9-year-old boy racially abused into suicide - "Within a day, a complete interpretive apparatus had assembled itself. His family’s statement, issued through his publisher, described a three-year campaign of sustained racial abuse. The Mayor of London called it a “pernicious public shaming.” Simon Baron-Cohen, who spoke to Arday hours before his death, relayed Arday’s belief that plagiarism allegations function as a racist playbook for bringing down Black academics, invoking Claudine Gay. Hacked Off demanded an inquiry into press culture. It seems as if Britain possesses a fully developed vocabulary for recognising that a black person’s suffering may have a racial dimension. The question is whether that reflex survives when the races are reversed. The answer, written in blood and institutional silence, is no... Notice what Britain’s institutions did with a clear allegation of racial torment directed at a White child in a majority-minority English school: nothing. No education select committee took evidence on the bullying of minority-White pupils. No charity commissioned research. No university department turned it into a field of study. There is a vast academic literature on the racist bullying of ethnic-minority children. There is virtually none on the reverse, even though the demographic conditions that make the reverse possible now exist in hundreds of English schools. When a minority child’s suffering is alleged to be racial, the allegation itself is treated as national data about Britain. Aaron’s was treated as one family’s private tragedy and then forgotten."
The author also mentions Ross Parker, Richard Everitt, Kriss Donald and Christopher Yates as victims of anti-white hate crime murders that no one cares about
Steven Pinker on X - "The Jason Arday scandal/fiasco/tragedy is a prime example of "pluralistic ignorance." No sapient being could believe his ziggurat of whoppers, but each may have privately thought that everyone else believed them. This happens when the expression of an idea is stigmatized or punished, as obviously happened here: anyone expressing common-sense incredulity was tarred as a racist, ableist, and abettor of suicide (not to mention threatened by a barracuda law firm and questioned by the police). For more on pluralistic ignorance and other extraordinary popular delusions, see When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life (preorder paperback here; out in a few weeks)."
Richard Hanania on X - "Elites told us that we were supposed to respect and admire Jason Arday. When he was disgraced and it became clear that institutions had failed, we were at fault for taking him too seriously. This is yet another fraud. Don't let them get away with it."
They're the Ones Who Told Us to Pay Attention to Jason Arday - "While some actually deny he was a plagiarist, it seems more common to acknowledge that Arday screwed up while saying that the media and conservatives on X should be condemned for paying too much attention to the story... These academics want to continue pursuing their work, get treated with deference by society, and never take the heat that might come with upholding the alleged standards of their profession when it is threatened by frauds. This is how fake fields like women’s studies have come into being, and why others like sociology have turned into such jokes. Yes, Arday is a symptom, and him getting away with his lies as long as he did indicates that Cambridge is in even worse shape than most of us thought. If universities don’t want the scrutiny that comes with being high-prestige institutions, they can no longer continue with the assumption that the rest of us should be deferring to them on intellectual, moral, or political issues. You’re the ones who told us that being the “youngest black professor in the history of Cambridge” was newsworthy. When Arday was being championed as an inspirational figure, being interviewed on major news programs, and getting a “1.4 million” advance for his book (according to Arday himself, for what that’s worth), none of the critics of the recent coverage of his fall were saying that society was paying too much attention to what was going on in academia. Now that it has become clear that Cambridge prioritized the ideology of diversity over academic rigor or a concern for truth, the rest of us are supposed to feel guilty for taking what Arday’s boosters within and outside the university said at face value. As his last act, Arday temporarily made it more difficult to have a real discussion about what has gone wrong in Western intellectual life. But the degree to which Cambridge failed and the vividness of his lies – like my personal favorite, the story of the muggers who gave him epilepsy and then were won over by his compassion – will hopefully help this story serve a purpose. Thanks in part to the uselessness of the so-called scholarship he produced, in death Arday might make a contribution to the advancement of human knowledge after all."
What Jason Arday's memoir says, due to publish days after he resigned | National Post - "The Atlantic read the finished book and obtained a copy of his book proposal. “The story that it tells should not be taken at face value; it differs notably from other versions of his life that Arday has shared in public and in private, including in the original proposal he sent out with his agent,” wrote senior editor Daniel Engber... The book opens on a prophecy. Arday writes that he was 21 and on a relief mission in Brazil in 2006, installing water pumps in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. The woman translating for him put a hand on his arm and told him he was destined to do great things, and “destined for very sad and difficult things as well.”... While working on his doctorate, Arday taught by day, stocked a supermarket overnight from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., then cleaned from 5:30 a.m. to 7:30 in the morning. What was left was the train. London to Liverpool, five hours each way. He writes that he did his 2015 thesis there, laptop on the tray table, typed two fingers at a time... The tumour comes back and his marriage ends, The Atlantic reported. Then autistic burnout during the pandemic, an exhaustion that kept him in bed, and a decision to end his life. What interrupted it was a song. He put on the Eagles’ “Take It to the Limit,” and the pause was long enough for a relative to reach him. His decision to listen to the Eagles, he writes, likely saved his life. Article content Arday sold the book on a 2024 proposal his agent sent publishers, which The Atlantic obtained. It tells parts of his life differently. In it he describes a car hitting him as a teenager and spending three months in a coma, conscious throughout because of locked-in syndrome, while doctors suggested withdrawing life support. He woke “miraculously,” he reportedly wrote. None of the coma is in the finished book, where those months pass at school with Arday sitting his final exams. The proposal also describes testicular cancer where the book only describes two brain tumours... Article content Article content The prophecy is different too. In the proposal, the year is 2005, and the woman is a town elder known locally for foretelling people’s lives, whom Arday elsewhere calls a shaman woman. “Every event she described,” he wrote there, according to The Atlantic, “has since come to pass.” In the book he writes that “you might say” her prediction came true. Article content The Atlantic asked his editors in the U.S. and Britain why the coma and the elderly shaman woman were not in the book. Neither answered."
If one story that Arday told contradicts other versions that he told, clearly there is no proof that he's a liar and only racists would claim that.
Fallen Cambridge Star Jason Arday’s Memoir Appears To Poach Life Events From His Favorite Soap Operas - "A Washington Free Beacon review of the memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, published Tuesday in the United States with a British edition coming later this month, as well as of further claims Arday made in his book proposal, found extensive evidence that suggests Arday, 41, plucked plot lines from films and TV shows and wove them into what he presented as the true events of his life,” Ryan writes. The pivotal dialogue in the memoir’s prologue, for example, “is similar to lines spoken by a Thracian prophetess in the pulpy Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, which was known for sex, violence, and bad writing.” The show’s seventh episode also happens to be titled “Great and Unfortunate Things.” Arday also claimed in his book proposal to have survived testicular cancer, a rare malignancy that afflicted a character on an Australian soap opera, Neighbours, that Arday says he viewed religiously. He said he was cursed with lifelong seizures after being beaten by a gang of thugs at age 18 only to reconcile with the assailants, another Neighbours plotline. He stated he was in a monthslong coma as a teen following a car accident, a plotline featured in both Neighbours and in Home and Away, another Australian soap Arday is known to love. And he claims to have had a brain tumor removed shortly before his 2015 Ph.D. thesis defense, wiping out his memory. In a 2007 episode of Neighbours, a character has a brain tumor removed and suffers partial amnesia."
Cambridge autism expert claims ‘bullying’ of Jason Arday was relentless
Comment (elsewhere): "By bullying do you mean sticking up for his students who complained that they weren't getting a proper education because he didn't know the subject and couldn't supervise them and so the response they got was to call them racist? By bullying do you mean pointing out that his PhD thesis was in the main stolen from someone else and that is a major sin in academia, or perhaps you mean the entire fantasy world that he created in order to shield him from the kind of scrutiny that any leading academic should have. By bullying do you mean that Guardian asking people who went to school with him whether his claims were true or not? Tell us, if you went to see a doctor and it turned out that that doctor knew next to nothing about medicine, had gained their medical degree by presenting other people's work, had lied about their entire history woud you be saying 'Let him continue to work as a doctor'. Jason Arday'd death is a tragedy, it is sad, but it hasn't been caused by those asking the important questions about his academic qualifications and the whole made up back story, his death was caused by the fact that Cambridge University wanted to appoint a black person to an important role and they didn't care about whether or not he should actually be in that role. Jason Arday has done incredible harm to many black academics who will now have the shadow of doubt constantly over them because people will wonder whether the white liberals, such as you, have only appointed them because of DEI or whether or not they really can do the job. There are lots of absolutely brilliant black academics who do not deserve to have white liberals using them as play things, to be paraded in public to show how 'progressive they are' - they need to get to their success by their own merits and hard work and many of them do that and absolutely deserve to be admired for that just as any academic who reaches such a post deserves to be recognised and admired, but Jason Arday did not do that. If you want to ask people if they are happy he has killed himself, look in the mirror and ask how the kind of policies that you support have incentivised this, how they led to him being appointed as a token despite it being obvious he wasn't up to the job and then, then go and ask his students who complained about not being taught and supervised correctly and whose complaints were dismmissed as 'racism' what they think about their time being taught by him. His death is a tragedy but it was caused by the liberal elite who wanted him as a poster boy and didn't care whether or not he was really qualified to be there and who closed their eyes to the rubbish he claimed - the academics who faced with the naked emperor continued pretending he was dressed in the most wonderful clothing."
