I really didn’t want to post again so soon on this, but the frantic denial and blame-shifting efforts by the Mad Left regarding a disaster of their own making is beyond anything I anticipated, and I anticipated a lot.
Lord Woolley, the principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, said Arday had been subjected to the “most horrendous, toxic, vicious witch hunt” leading to his death. Woolley is supposed to be a scholar. A witch hunt describes an effort to pin vile deeds on a victim who is innocent of such deeds. Arday did exactly what he was accused of doing, and he was in the process of being appropriately held accountable for what he did. Cambridge was also appropriately criticized and condemned, and will continue to be.
Today, Lord Woolley said: “We need an investigation into the media onslaught, the vicious media onslaught.” It’s called journalism, you dolt. For once, the left-biased news media did its job and exposed a DEI fraud as well as the institution that betrayed its standards, students and reputation by promoting and defending him. This is rich: the Left wants to investigate its captive news media for reporting the truth.
The hilariously named “Good Law Project” got thousands of idiots to sign an open letter. I’ll bold the most insane parts. It reads,
We, the undersigned, are appalled by the sustained and malicious attacks on the academic integrity of Professor Jason Arday.
Entirely false allegations of plagiarism were made against Professor Arday and referred to two universities. Investigations have found no evidence whatsoever of wrongdoing. The relevant academic journals also found no basis for the claims.
Yet despite these unequivocal findings, rightwing media have attempted to smear Professor Arday’s reputation and undermine his career. That should concern everyone who believes in academic freedom, fairness and due process.
It is difficult to ignore the question of motivation. When a distinguished Black academic is repeatedly subjected to baseless allegations after being fully exonerated, it signals there is an attempt to undermine Black people who hold positions of influence.
Professor Arday, a working class Black man, became the youngest Black professor in the University of Cambridge’s history. His remarkable journey, scholarship and leadership should be celebrated, not overshadowed by campaigns built on allegations that have been comprehensively rejected.
Professor Arday has contributed to public life for many years, building a distinguished record of charitable and community service. This latest smear campaign and the spread of misinformation are deeply alarming – not only because of the impact on one individual, but because of the message they send to aspiring Black and Brown young people who seek to attain positions of leadership.
The demonisation of Professor Arday, and recently on Misan Harriman, risks creating a chilling effect, signalling that success and public service may be met with hostility, misrepresentation, and disproportionate scrutiny.
We stand in unwavering solidarity with Professor Arday. We call on universities not only to defend academic freedom and robust scholarship, but also to confront racism wherever it manifests itself, whether overtly or through persistent attempts to discredit exceptional Black academics.
There can be no place in higher education for campaigns that weaponise baseless accusations to damage reputations and careers. Universities must ensure that excellence is protected and that every scholar is judged on the merit of their work, not the colour of their skin.
Niiiiice! Lies everywhere!
Ethics Alarms 
What makes you think that the signatures are any more honest than the arguments?
It would be perfectly consistent for the lying defenders of the lying professor to lie about the signatures on their compilation of lies.
How soon before his statue is erected on the green at Cambridge? My guess is no later than this time next year.
Fake everything with an entire apparatus backing it up. Western society is officially doomed.
AI should be feared, but not nearly as much as these people.
That was the thrust of a comment I recently made on the subject. Academia is clearly chock-full of fraudulent pseudo-intellectuals riding the coattails of greater men who have gone before. But as long as all the insiders back each other up, the whole rotten edifice still looks sound to casual outside observers.
I’d say the entire letter, and not just a single phrase, can best be understood as gaslighting. Incredibly brazen. I was expecting a collection of rationalizations and excuses, but this is simply an absolute denial of reality. Weird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Roberts_(educator)
Coincidence?
The KKK had an element of people in power gatekeeping hiring processes to exclude qualified candidates based on the color of their skin.
That exact thing happens now, but they use the initials DEI.
I am struggling what the takeaway of this Jason Arday trainwreck should be. A lot of players act in a very predictable fashion. So here is the sequence of events:
I am struggling what the takeaway of this Jason Arday trainwreck should be. We have seen this game before, with lots of predictable actions by the usual players.
I was wondering about the commenter’s reactions to Todd Grande’s video which pays attention to the mental issues by Jason Arday which were ignored by the University of Cambridge.
About the endgame with all the blaming and playing the race card, how much attention and energy should we spend on this? How should we react to playing the race card? In the seventies, people who were called out on a racial issue felt a sense of guilt. After 2000 an accusation of racism was met with angry denials (which did not do any good by the way). After 2024 the race card has run out of credit with no balance left, and many people (the generations younger than the baby boomers) react with a shrug.
My preference goes to the latter approach. If somebody makes an accusation of racism then he goes in my category of people whose opinions do not have to be taken seriously anymore. They will be added to the list of people to be ignored, and silently cut off from my social circle. No need to get angry and respond. Maybe poking some fun maybe in order. No walking on eggshells anymore, instead loosening up.
Who are the real victims of this DEI phenomenon? I imagine myself being an employer, going over a resume of somebody with a first name common among blacks, who graduated from the University of Cambridge or some other woke college. Would I invite him for an interview? Or would I put his resume aside, being distrustful because of all the DEI, affirmative action, grade inflation that is common at these universities. How do I recognize the excellence of the candidates who resumes I am reviewing?