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On Aug 16, 2026 at 2:37:29rC>PM EDT, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:

On 16/08/2026 18:41, Julian wrote:

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>
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 figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a 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

I'd welcome such an inquiry as it would necessitate inquiring into
Cambridge University's, among other institutions, role in the tragedy.

Cambridge has already moved to head off a public inquiry at the pass but hoping anyone will be satisfied by an internal review if the epitome of wishful thinking. https://order-order.com/2026/08/14/in-full-the-diverse-cambridge-recruitment-guide-that-could-have-boosted-arday/

Predictable. Damn
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