We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnAt save Jason
Brendan OANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?
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 rCydecolonisationrCO
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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. ThatrCOs 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 rCythe
best in the worldrCO. 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 rCydecolonisationrCO. 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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black colleague. The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks hounded him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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
ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
On 16/08/2026 16:03, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true ideal of equality. We couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity."
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?
Yes, I do.
On 16/08/2026 16:12, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:03, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>"Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
We couldnAt save Jason
Brendan OANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?
ideal of equality. We couldnAt save Jason but we can save merit from the
monstrous jaws of identity."
Yes, I do.
"The true ideal of equality is the moral conviction that all human
beings possess equal and fundamental worth.
It means every person
deserves the same respect, basic rights, and fair treatment under the
law, regardless of their differences in ability, background, or social >status.
Core Pillars of Equality--
Moral Equality: All people hold the same inner value and human dignity.
Legal Equality: Laws apply to everyone in the exact same way. Courts
must treat all citizens without bias or favouritism.
Equal Opportunity: Everyone starts with a fair and open chance to
succeed. Society should remove artificial barriers like caste, race, or >gender.
Equality vs. Equity
Equality gives everyone the exact same tools or support.
Equity gives people different tools based on what they need to reach a
fair outcome.
True ideal blends both. It uses equity as a tool to make sure the
starting line is truly fair for all.
Common Misunderstandings
Not identical outcomes: People have different skills, choices, and
drives. True equality does not mean forcing everyone to end up with the >exact same possessions or results.
Not erasing differences: It honours individual diversity instead of
trying to make everyone the same."
Corrected AI
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:00:29 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:12, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:03, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>"Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?
ideal of equality. We couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from the >>> monstrous jaws of identity."
Yes, I do.
"The true ideal of equality is the moral conviction that all human
beings possess equal and fundamental worth.
But often not equal opportunity to express that worth.
It means every person
deserves the same respect, basic rights, and fair treatment under the
law, regardless of their differences in ability, background, or social
status.
Too bad people so often find ways to short circuit those rights for
others while claiming them for themselves. What you are suggesting is
that nothing be done about that when it happens.
--- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2Core Pillars of Equality<snip>
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
On 8/16/2026 9:14 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:But often not equal opportunity to express that worth.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:00:29 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:12, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:03, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>"Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true >>>> ideal of equality. We couldnAt save Jason but we can save merit from the >>>> monstrous jaws of identity."
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >>>>>>> wrote:
We couldnAt save Jason
Brendan OANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?
Yes, I do.
"The true ideal of equality is the moral conviction that all human
beings possess equal and fundamental worth.
It looks like you took a hatchet to this thread and snipped out most of
It means every person
deserves the same respect, basic rights, and fair treatment under the
law, regardless of their differences in ability, background, or social
status.
Too bad people so often find ways to short circuit those rights for
others while claiming them for themselves. What you are suggesting is
that nothing be done about that when it happens.
the context and then changed the topic and then keyed a query into the >Subject box.
So, let me just post back some of what you snipped out:
Creon <creon@creon.earth> posted:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:May Jason rest in peace. He ran a marathon because it was on his way.
We couldnAt save Jason
Brendan OANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:59:35 GMT, Dude
<user2891@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
Creon <creon@creon.earth> posted:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>May Jason rest in peace. He ran a marathon because it was on his way.
We couldn-At save Jason
Brendan O-ANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
And the discussion should stop right there.
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> 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 rCydecolonisationrCO 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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. ThatrCOs 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 rCythe
best in the worldrCO. 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 rCydecolonisationrCO. 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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks hounded him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss the whole picture.
Arday's state of mental health wasn't acknowledged because of politial bias.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:54:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/16/2026 9:14 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:But often not equal opportunity to express that worth.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:00:29 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:12, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:03, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true >>>> ideal of equality. We couldn-At save Jason but we can save merit from the
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >>>>>>> wrote:
We couldn-At save Jason
Brendan O-ANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?
monstrous jaws of identity."
Yes, I do.
"The true ideal of equality is the moral conviction that all human
beings possess equal and fundamental worth.
It looks like you took a hatchet to this thread and snipped out most of >the context and then changed the topic and then keyed a query into the >Subject box.
It means every person
deserves the same respect, basic rights, and fair treatment under the
law, regardless of their differences in ability, background, or social >>> status.
Too bad people so often find ways to short circuit those rights for
others while claiming them for themselves. What you are suggesting is
that nothing be done about that when it happens.
So, let me just post back some of what you snipped out:
Why should I do that?
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>"Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public inquiry into media coverage surrounding the former Cambridge professor before his death."
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 rCydecolonisationrCO >>> 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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe
oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving >>> them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. ThatrCOs >>> 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 rCythe
best in the worldrCO. 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 rCydecolonisationrCO. >>> 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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the dizzying
heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks hounded >>> him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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
ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks
rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from the >>> monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday 'witch hunt' - BBC, 8/16/2026
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss the whole
picture.
Arday's state of mental health wasn't acknowledged because of politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so because
the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered
their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, "To
be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise to any normal well-adjusted human being.
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss the whole >> picture.
Arday's state of mental health wasn't acknowledged because of politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life
history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so because
the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered
their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, "To
be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise to any normal well-adjusted human being.
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote: >>>> At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss the whole
picture.
Arday's state of mental health wasn't acknowledged because of politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life
history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so because
the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered
their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, "To
be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise to any
normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed. Shame on Cambridge.
Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> posted:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:54:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:Nothing to see here move along.
On 8/16/2026 9:14 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:But often not equal opportunity to express that worth.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:00:29 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:12, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:03, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"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
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >> >>>>>>> wrote:
We couldn?t save Jason
Brendan O?Neill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >> >>>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?
monstrous jaws of identity."
Yes, I do.
"The true ideal of equality is the moral conviction that all human
beings possess equal and fundamental worth.
It looks like you took a hatchet to this thread and snipped out most of
It means every person
deserves the same respect, basic rights, and fair treatment under the
law, regardless of their differences in ability, background, or social >> >>> status.
Too bad people so often find ways to short circuit those rights for
others while claiming them for themselves. What you are suggesting is
that nothing be done about that when it happens.
the context and then changed the topic and then keyed a query into the
Subject box.
So, let me just post back some of what you snipped out:
Why should I do that?
On 16/08/2026 18:30, Dude wrote:
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com>"Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public
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 rCydecolonisationrCO >>>> 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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe >>>> oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving >>>> them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials.
ThatrCOs
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 rCythe >>>> best in the worldrCO. 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 rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the dizzying >>>> heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black
colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks
hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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
ArdayrCOs 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 rCo >>>> 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks >>>> rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes >>>> who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from >>>> the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
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
I'd welcome such an inquiry as it would necessitate inquiring into
Cambridge University's, among other institutions, role in the tragedy.
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:12:52?PM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <fedora@fea.st> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:59:35 GMT, Dude
<user2891@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
Creon <creon@creon.earth> posted:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>May Jason rest in peace. He ran a marathon because it was on his way.
We couldn?t save Jason
Brendan O?Neill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
And the discussion should stop right there.
Why? Do you want another tragedy like Arday's to happen? Don't reflect and >discuss = don't learn and change.
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth>
wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew,
or the system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss
the whole picture. Arday's state of mental health wasn't
acknowledged because of politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so
because the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said,
"To be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise
to any normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed. Shame on Cambridge.
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote: >>>>> At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?-a The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss.-a (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss
the whole
picture.
Arday's state of-a mental health wasn't acknowledged because of
politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life
history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so because
the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered
their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, "To
be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise to any >>> normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed.-a Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote: >>>>> At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss the whole
picture.
Arday's state of mental health wasn't acknowledged because of politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life
history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so because
the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered
their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, "To
be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise to any >>> normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed. Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:09:46 -0000 (UTC), Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth>
wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew,
or the system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss
the whole picture. Arday's state of mental health wasn't
acknowledged because of politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life
history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so
because the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and
furthered their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said,
"To be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise
to any normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed. Shame on Cambridge.
What were Jason's loved ones doing?
Here in California, if someone is a danger to themselves, that
is an emergency: call 911, or sometimes 988.
Do they have something like that in the UK?
On 16/08/2026 19:32, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote: >>>>>> At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss
the whole
picture.
Arday's state of mental health wasn't acknowledged because of
politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life
history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so because >>>> the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered
their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, "To >>>> be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise to any >>>> normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed. Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
The ability to spell will become a death warrant, the new spectacles. https://order-order.com/2026/07/28/education-secretary-says-spelling-and-grammar-tests-are-too-obscure-and-takes-aim-at-exams-and-ofsted/
On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public inquiry into media coverage surrounding the former Cambridge professor before his death."
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 rCydecolonisationrCO >>> 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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe >>> oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving >>> them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. ThatrCOs
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 rCythe >>> best in the worldrCO. 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 rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the dizzying >>> heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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
ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks >>> rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday 'witch hunt' - BBC, 8/16/2026
ya'll are racists
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:That should wrap up this conversation!
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public inquiry >>> into media coverage surrounding the former Cambridge professor before his >>> death."
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 rCydecolonisationrCO >>>>> 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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe >>>>> oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving >>>>> them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. ThatrCOs
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 rCythe >>>>> best in the worldrCO. 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 rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the dizzying >>>>> heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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
ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks >>>>> rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday 'witch hunt' - BBC, 8/16/2026
ya'll are racists
On 8/16/26 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:That should wrap up this conversation!
ya'll are racists
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public inquiry
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 rCydecolonisationrCO
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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe >>>>> oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving
them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. ThatrCOs
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 rCythe >>>>> best in the worldrCO. 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 rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the dizzying >>>>> heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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 >>>>> ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks >>>>> rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
into media coverage surrounding the former Cambridge professor before his >>> death."
Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday 'witch hunt' - BBC, 8/16/2026 >>
it should, but it won't
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:You just can't seem to stop talking about Jason Arday.
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:That should wrap up this conversation!
ya'll are racists
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public inquiry
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 rCydecolonisationrCO
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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe >>>>>>> oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving
them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. ThatrCOs
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 rCythe >>>>>>> best in the worldrCO. 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 rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the dizzying >>>>>>> heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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 >>>>>>> ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks >>>>>>> rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
into media coverage surrounding the former Cambridge professor before his >>>>> death."
Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday 'witch hunt' - BBC, 8/16/2026 >>>>
it should, but it won't
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote: >>
We couldn-At save Jason
Brendan O-ANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what
would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
Politicized. It need not have been any of our business.
On 16/08/2026 19:32, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote: >>>>>> At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or >>>>>>>> the system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?-a The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss.-a (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss
the whole picture.
Arday's state of-a mental health wasn't acknowledged because of
politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life
history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so because >>>> the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered
their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, "To >>>> be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise to
any normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed.-a Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
The ability to spell will become a death warrant, the new spectacles. https://order-order.com/2026/07/28/education-secretary-says-spelling- and-grammar-tests-are-too-obscure-and-takes-aim-at-exams-and-ofsted/
On 8/16/2026 2:47 PM, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:32, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>> wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> >>>>>> wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, >>>>>>>>> or the system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?-a The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss.-a (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss >>>>>> the whole picture.
Arday's state of-a mental health wasn't acknowledged because of
politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life >>>>> history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been >>>>> seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so
because
the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered >>>>> their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, >>>>> "To
be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise
to any normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed.-a Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
The ability to spell will become a death warrant, the new spectacles.
https://order-order.com/2026/07/28/education-secretary-says-spelling-
and-grammar-tests-are-too-obscure-and-takes-aim-at-exams-and-ofsted/
It all seems a bit too on the nose.
Imagine a world with a leadership class who saw their progeny's futures threatened by competition from upstart lower classes, and who wished to permanently entrench themselves and their heirs. In this purely
*imaginary* world, would they do anything different than importing a lot
of low-skilled labor from poorer societies to suppress the wages and bargaining power among the native working classes? And then reduce the education standards for those who are not in their elite?
In such an imaginary world I'd expect the top universities to somehow
hold onto their very high standards (for example by having a scandal or
two surrounding some very unqualified professors) while other
universities were strongly encouraged (perhaps through those VAT taxes, grade inflation, and expanded access via equity standards) to lower
theirs in the name of fairness.
This would simultaneously protect the scarcity value of those holding
the highest credentials while allowing the dilution of standards further down the hierarchy. The overall effect would reduce opportunity and
income among the lower classes. And to prevent a genuine class on class conflict, media stories to keep them fighting amongst themselves over
race and gay equity. The ultimate goal being to steepen the status curve
to make upward mobility ever harder for outsiders.
Just as a purely academic thought experiment. I'd never encourage anyone
to look at current events through that lens >:)
On 8/16/2026 2:47 PM, Julian wrote:https://theideaslab.substack.com/p/red-princes-hereditary-politics-and
On 16/08/2026 19:32, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>> wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> >>>>>> wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, >>>>>>>>> or the system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?-a The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss.-a (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss >>>>>> the whole picture.
Arday's state of-a mental health wasn't acknowledged because of
politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life >>>>> history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been >>>>> seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so
because
the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered >>>>> their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, >>>>> "To
be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise
to any normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed.-a Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
The ability to spell will become a death warrant, the new spectacles.
https://order-order.com/2026/07/28/education-secretary-says-spelling-
and-grammar-tests-are-too-obscure-and-takes-aim-at-exams-and-ofsted/
It all seems a bit too on the nose.
Imagine a world with a leadership class who saw their progeny's futures threatened by competition from upstart lower classes, and who wished to permanently entrench themselves and their heirs. In this purely
*imaginary* world, would they do anything different than importing a lot
of low-skilled labor from poorer societies to suppress the wages and bargaining power among the native working classes? And then reduce the education standards for those who are not in their elite?
In such an imaginary world I'd expect the top universities to somehow
hold onto their very high standards (for example by having a scandal or
two surrounding some very unqualified professors) while other
universities were strongly encouraged (perhaps through those VAT taxes, grade inflation, and expanded access via equity standards) to lower
theirs in the name of fairness.
This would simultaneously protect the scarcity value of those holding
the highest credentials while allowing the dilution of standards further down the hierarchy. The overall effect would reduce opportunity and
income among the lower classes. And to prevent a genuine class on class conflict, media stories to keep them fighting amongst themselves over
race and gay equity. The ultimate goal being to steepen the status curve
to make upward mobility ever harder for outsiders.
Just as a purely academic thought experiment. I'd never encourage anyone
to look at current events through that lens >:)
On 8/16/26 1:18 PM, Dude wrote:
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:You just can't seem to stop talking about Jason Arday.
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:That should wrap up this conversation!
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian""Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> 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
rCydecolonisationrCO
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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 >>>>>>>> rCythe
oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while >>>>>>>> leaving
them open to exposure as others start to query their
credentials. ThatrCOs
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 >>>>>>>> rCythe
best in the worldrCO. 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
rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the >>>>>>>> dizzying
heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black >>>>>>>> colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks >>>>>>>> hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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 >>>>>>>> ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks >>>>>>>> rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic >>>>>>>> crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit >>>>>>>> from the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
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
it should, but it won't
and u just can't seem to stop being a racist nigger
On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com>"Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public
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 rCydecolonisationrCO >>>> 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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe >>>> oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving >>>> them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials.
ThatrCOs
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 rCythe >>>> best in the worldrCO. 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 rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the dizzying >>>> heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black
colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. Hacks
hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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
ArdayrCOs 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 rCo >>>> 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks >>>> rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes >>>> who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit from >>>> the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
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
On 8/16/2026 1:51 PM, dart200 wrote:
On 8/16/26 1:18 PM, Dude wrote:That's a wrap for sure. Good work, Nick!
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:You just can't seem to stop talking about Jason Arday.
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:That should wrap up this conversation!
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian""Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> 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
rCydecolonisationrCO
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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO 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 rCythe
oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing while >>>>>>>>> leaving
them open to exposure as others start to query their
credentials. ThatrCOs
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 >>>>>>>>> rCythe
best in the worldrCO. 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
rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the >>>>>>>>> dizzying
heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black >>>>>>>>> colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. >>>>>>>>> Hacks hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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 >>>>>>>>> ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, blacks
rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic >>>>>>>>> crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save merit >>>>>>>>> from the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
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
it should, but it won't
and u just can't seem to stop being a racist nigger
On 16/08/2026 22:14, Wilson wrote:
On 8/16/2026 2:47 PM, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:32, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12rC>PM EDT, "Wilson"
<Wilson@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20rC>AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> >>>>>>> wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?-a The mental
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnrCOt save Jason
Brendan OrCONeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people >>>>>>>>>> should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, >>>>>>>>>> or the system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise. >>>>>>>>> Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception. >>>>>>>>
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss.-a (If you want to >>>>>>>> turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will
miss the whole picture.
Arday's state of-a mental health wasn't acknowledged because of >>>>>>> politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life >>>>>> history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been >>>>>> seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so
because
the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered >>>>>> their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he
said, "To
be honest with you, I thought yourCOd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise >>>>>> to any normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed.-a Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
The ability to spell will become a death warrant, the new spectacles.
https://order-order.com/2026/07/28/education-secretary-says-spelling-
and-grammar-tests-are-too-obscure-and-takes-aim-at-exams-and-ofsted/
It all seems a bit too on the nose.
Imagine a world with a leadership class who saw their progeny's
futures threatened by competition from upstart lower classes, and who
wished to permanently entrench themselves and their heirs. In this
purely *imaginary* world, would they do anything different than
importing a lot of low-skilled labor from poorer societies to suppress
the wages and bargaining power among the native working classes? And
then reduce the education standards for those who are not in their elite?
In such an imaginary world I'd expect the top universities to somehow
hold onto their very high standards (for example by having a scandal
or two surrounding some very unqualified professors) while other
universities were strongly encouraged (perhaps through those VAT
taxes, grade inflation, and expanded access via equity standards) to
lower theirs in the name of fairness.
This would simultaneously protect the scarcity value of those holding
the highest credentials while allowing the dilution of standards
further down the hierarchy. The overall effect would reduce
opportunity and income among the lower classes. And to prevent a
genuine class on class conflict, media stories to keep them fighting
amongst themselves over race and gay equity. The ultimate goal being
to steepen the status curve to make upward mobility ever harder for
outsiders.
Just as a purely academic thought experiment. I'd never encourage
anyone to look at current events through that lens >:)
https://theideaslab.substack.com/p/red-princes-hereditary-politics-and
On 8/16/2026 2:47 PM, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:32, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12?PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20?AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote: >>>>>>> At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >>>>>>> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnAt save Jason
Brendan OANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or >>>>>>>>> the system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?a The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss.a (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss >>>>>> the whole picture.
Arday's state ofa mental health wasn't acknowledged because of
politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life >>>>> history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been >>>>> seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so because >>>>> the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered >>>>> their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, "To >>>>> be honest with you, I thought youAd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise to >>>>> any normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed.a Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
The ability to spell will become a death warrant, the new spectacles.
https://order-order.com/2026/07/28/education-secretary-says-spelling-
and-grammar-tests-are-too-obscure-and-takes-aim-at-exams-and-ofsted/
It all seems a bit too on the nose.
Imagine a world with a leadership class who saw their progeny's futures >threatened by competition from upstart lower classes, and who wished to >permanently entrench themselves and their heirs. In this purely
*imaginary* world, would they do anything different than importing a lot
of low-skilled labor from poorer societies to suppress the wages and
bargaining power among the native working classes? And then reduce the >education standards for those who are not in their elite?--
In such an imaginary world I'd expect the top universities to somehow
hold onto their very high standards (for example by having a scandal or
two surrounding some very unqualified professors) while other
universities were strongly encouraged (perhaps through those VAT taxes, >grade inflation, and expanded access via equity standards) to lower
theirs in the name of fairness.
This would simultaneously protect the scarcity value of those holding
the highest credentials while allowing the dilution of standards further >down the hierarchy. The overall effect would reduce opportunity and
income among the lower classes. And to prevent a genuine class on class >conflict, media stories to keep them fighting amongst themselves over
race and gay equity. The ultimate goal being to steepen the status curve
to make upward mobility ever harder for outsiders.
Just as a purely academic thought experiment. I'd never encourage anyone
to look at current events through that lens >:)
On 8/16/2026 5:14 PM, Wilson wrote:
On 8/16/2026 2:47 PM, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:32, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12?PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>> wrote:
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20?AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> >>>>>>> wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?a The mental
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnAt save Jason
Brendan OANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people >>>>>>>>>> should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, >>>>>>>>>> or the system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise. >>>>>>>>> Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception. >>>>>>>>
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss.a (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss >>>>>>> the whole picture.
Arday's state ofa mental health wasn't acknowledged because of
politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life >>>>>> history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been >>>>>> seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so
because
the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered >>>>>> their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, >>>>>> "To
be honest with you, I thought youAd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise >>>>>> to any normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed.a Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
The ability to spell will become a death warrant, the new spectacles.
https://order-order.com/2026/07/28/education-secretary-says-spelling-
and-grammar-tests-are-too-obscure-and-takes-aim-at-exams-and-ofsted/
It all seems a bit too on the nose.
Imagine a world with a leadership class who saw their progeny's futures
threatened by competition from upstart lower classes, and who wished to
permanently entrench themselves and their heirs. In this purely
*imaginary* world, would they do anything different than importing a lot
of low-skilled labor from poorer societies to suppress the wages and
bargaining power among the native working classes? And then reduce the
education standards for those who are not in their elite?
In such an imaginary world I'd expect the top universities to somehow
hold onto their very high standards (for example by having a scandal or
two surrounding some very unqualified professors) while other
universities were strongly encouraged (perhaps through those VAT taxes,
grade inflation, and expanded access via equity standards) to lower
theirs in the name of fairness.
This would simultaneously protect the scarcity value of those holding
the highest credentials while allowing the dilution of standards further
down the hierarchy. The overall effect would reduce opportunity and
income among the lower classes. And to prevent a genuine class on class
conflict, media stories to keep them fighting amongst themselves over
race and gay equity. The ultimate goal being to steepen the status curve
to make upward mobility ever harder for outsiders.
Also, somewhere in this scenario it would be very handy to introduce an
ever growing surveillance system. They might say it was to "fight terror
and extremism". While they imported terrorists.
Like I said it's all a bit too on the nose.
--
Just as a purely academic thought experiment. I'd never encourage anyone
to look at current events through that lens >:)
On Aug 16, 2026 at 2:32:52?PM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 19:09, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 1:31:12?PM EDT, "Wilson" <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> wrote: >>>
On 8/16/2026 12:52 PM, Tara wrote:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 11:03:20?AM EDT, "Creon" <creon@creon.earth> wrote: >>>>>> At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:
We couldnAt save Jason
Brendan OANeill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people
should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise.
Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception.
But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion? The mental
health aspect is what I'm trying to discuss. (If you want to
turn it into a political discussion -- aright, I'm out.)
you can focus on one or the other but by doing that, you will miss the whole
picture.
Arday's state of mental health wasn't acknowledged because of politial bias.
Arday was a man who did not think it was wrong to lie about his life
history. His made up stories if investigated at all, would have been
seen as obvious fakery.
They weren't investigated by the people who should have done so because >>>> the person of Arday his story supported their worldview and furthered
their ideology.
When he was finally asked about the more outlandish things he said, "To >>>> be honest with you, I thought youAd just believe me."
That such a person might also be mentally unstable is no surprise to any >>>> normal well-adjusted human being.
Well pointed. Shame on Cambridge.
Yes, but Cambridge is just the gilded tip of the iceberg.
Standards across the entire industry have been gutted and
the plan is to tax non state controlled education into
extinction. It's slow motion Pol Pottery.
I have fairth that there is still some semblence of sanity among academics (in >Canada as well). I know there is.
They just have to get off their asses and wake the fearful little woke puppets up.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:32:32 GMT, Dude
<user2891@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> posted:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:54:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:Nothing to see here move along.
On 8/16/2026 9:14 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:But often not equal opportunity to express that worth.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:00:29 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:12, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:03, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"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
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >>>>>>>>>> wrote:
We couldn?t save Jason
Brendan O?Neill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people >>>>>>>>>> should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the >>>>>>>>>> system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise. >>>>>>>>> Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception. >>>>>>>>
monstrous jaws of identity."
Yes, I do.
"The true ideal of equality is the moral conviction that all human >>>>>> beings possess equal and fundamental worth.
It looks like you took a hatchet to this thread and snipped out most of >>>> the context and then changed the topic and then keyed a query into the >>>> Subject box.
It means every person
deserves the same respect, basic rights, and fair treatment under the >>>>>> law, regardless of their differences in ability, background, or social >>>>>> status.
Too bad people so often find ways to short circuit those rights for
others while claiming them for themselves. What you are suggesting is >>>>> that nothing be done about that when it happens.
So, let me just post back some of what you snipped out:
Why should I do that?
You have seen nothing here, you move along.
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:That's a wrap for sure. Good work, Nick!
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:You just can't seem to stop talking about Jason Arday.
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:That should wrap up this conversation!
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian""Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> 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
rCydecolonisationrCO
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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO >>>>>>>>>> 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 rCythe
oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing >>>>>>>>>> while leaving
them open to exposure as others start to query their
credentials. ThatrCOs
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 rCythe
best in the worldrCO. 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
rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the >>>>>>>>>> dizzying
heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black >>>>>>>>>> colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. >>>>>>>>>> Hacks hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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
ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, >>>>>>>>>> blacks
rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic >>>>>>>>>> crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save >>>>>>>>>> merit from the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
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
it should, but it won't
and u just can't seem to stop being a racist nigger
u know u love my insults dud Efyy
On 8/16/2026 4:35 PM, dart200 wrote:
On 8/16/26 4:06 PM, Dude wrote:You came here to get enlightened?
On 8/16/2026 1:51 PM, dart200 wrote:
On 8/16/26 1:18 PM, Dude wrote:That's a wrap for sure. Good work, Nick!
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:You just can't seem to stop talking about Jason Arday.
dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:That should wrap up this conversation!
Tara <tsm@fastmail.ca> posted:
On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40rC>AM EDT, "Julian""Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a >>>>>>>>> public inquiry
<julianlzb87@gmail.com> 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
rCydecolonisationrCO
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 rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO and then say rCyOopsrCO >>>>>>>>>>> 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 rCythe
oppressedrCO for moral anointment and institutional gushing >>>>>>>>>>> while leaving
them open to exposure as others start to query their
credentials. ThatrCOs
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 rCythe
best in the worldrCO. 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
rCydecolonisationrCO.
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 ArdayrCOs 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 rCo reaching the >>>>>>>>>>> dizzying
heights of a Cambridge professorship rCo 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 rCyblack geniusrCO rather than look out for a black >>>>>>>>>>> colleague.
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
Already, leftists are blaming the media for ArdayrCOs death. >>>>>>>>>>> Hacks hounded
him into despair, they say. IrCOm 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
ArdayrCOs 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 rCo 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 rCyprivilegedrCO, >>>>>>>>>>> blacks
rCyoppressedrCO. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic >>>>>>>>>>> crimes who
must atone for past sins, blacks as historyrCOs 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 couldnrCOt save Jason but we can save >>>>>>>>>>> merit from the
monstrous jaws of identity.
Brendan OrCONeill
YES!
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
it should, but it won't
and u just can't seem to stop being a racist nigger
u know u love my insults dud Efyy
On 8/16/2026 11:34 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:32:32 GMT, Dude
<user2891@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> posted:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:54:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>Nothing to see here move along.
On 8/16/2026 9:14 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:But often not equal opportunity to express that worth.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:00:29 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:12, Julian wrote:
On 16/08/2026 16:03, Creon wrote:
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:"Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true
On 16/08/2026 13:51, Creon wrote:But do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's conclusion?
At Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> >>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
We couldn?t save Jason
Brendan O?Neill
Do you agree with Mr. O'Neill's assessment?
Because if he had thoughts of "un-aliving" himself, people >>>>>>>>>>> should have been getting him the help that he needed.
Writing an opinion piece pointing fingers doesn't help -- what >>>>>>>>>>> would help is an a-political discussion of how those he knew, or the
system, or both; failed him.
I'm not sure from where an a-political discussion will arise. >>>>>>>>>> Everything about the tragic saga was political from inception. >>>>>>>>>
ideal of equality. We couldn?t save Jason but we can save merit from the
monstrous jaws of identity."
Yes, I do.
"The true ideal of equality is the moral conviction that all human >>>>>>> beings possess equal and fundamental worth.
It looks like you took a hatchet to this thread and snipped out most of >>>>> the context and then changed the topic and then keyed a query into the >>>>> Subject box.
It means every person
deserves the same respect, basic rights, and fair treatment under the >>>>>>> law, regardless of their differences in ability, background, or social >>>>>>> status.
Too bad people so often find ways to short circuit those rights for >>>>>> others while claiming them for themselves. What you are suggesting is >>>>>> that nothing be done about that when it happens.
So, let me just post back some of what you snipped out:
Why should I do that?
You have seen nothing here, you move along.
"The true ideal of equality is the moral conviction that all human
beings possess equal and fundamental worth."
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