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

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

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

How about no, Scott?

Roger Kimball:

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

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

But that is a false dichotomy. There is no doubt that Arday was a plagiarist. And far from being the victim of "a racial witch hunt," he was the victim of his own lies and intemperate behavior. And let's not forget that his fabulations were directed not only at aggrandizing himself. He was also perfectly happy to play the race card to damage others, as when he complained to the police that journalists who were investigating his credentials were guilty of harassing him. The police duly opened a four-month-long investigation into a journalist who was simply going about his job.
Outside of certain mystery novels, where the villain is discovered and then presented with a weapon and a private moment to "do the right thing," suicide cannot help but be a shocking eventuality. One cannot--at least, I cannot--help but feel bad for Arday and his family, which includes his widow, two young children, and his parents. Nevertheless, I cannot exonerate him. Why? A multi-part inventory compiled on X and presented in clipped, asyndetonic style contains the answer. Here are some of the items, presented under the rubric "Be Jason Arday":
>claim police traced a severed pig's head at your parents' house to a butcher who'd sold a "whole hog" that morning
>have the butcher say no officer ever came in
>have the Met call the whole tale "categorically incorrect"
>say you're experiencing a modern day lynching on a podcast
>have the ASA make your speaking agency strip unbacked claims
>hire Carter-Ruck [a law firm] & get Times Higher Education to kill a finished story
>report their journalist to Scotland Yard for emailing you questions about your record
>have officers tell him to stop, your mental health was hurt
>report a retired professor too, have Devon & Cornwall decline to bother
>have the Met chief later admit "we dropped the ball on that one"
>get cleared by a panel you asked to weigh the "war on critical race theory"
>have 188 matching sentences called an honest & reasonable error
>do keynote on the playbook conservatives use to hunt black academics b/c beyond reproach
>have the Times find participant 11 in study is three different people
>have the same quotes come out of different mouths 25 times across three papers
>have false funding declarations
>have an outside expert say there is no question the plagiarism is extensive
>have a Cambridge autism professor send round "URGENT PLEASE SIGN ANTI RACISM LETTER"
>get 13,000 names & three Cambridge heads vouching for text they never read
>have Cambridge call it a "vile smear campaign"
>blame autistic mimicry, a l supervisor who left, & one you never met
>call the campaign racially motivated
>say "what I am not is a liar"
>turn 600 miles of margarine in six days into twelve
>have Anglia Ruskin edit your citation page the day the [Nathan] Cofnas piece dropped
>get Solent to delete the running claims
>have the TEDx video go private
>have your Jesus College page quietly turn Professorial Fellow into l Fellow & a Liverpool master's vanish
>have academics call for a regulator probe, have the Office for Students decline to comment
>have Cambridge open a probe into your qualifications & honorary appointments
>have Jesus College open its own
>quit both on the spot
>put the letter out through the Good Law Project
>have the letter promise you'll return stronger & wiser
>have the letter come back 100% AI
>have Jesus College drop its probe the moment you quit
>have the Good Law Project boss keep defending you, chalking it all up to neurodivergence
>have the ghostwritten memoir come out in the US anyway, after a 1.4m pre-empt
>have the UK edition still set for Aug 27
>have Cambridge order an outside audit of how you were ever hired
>have Durham & Glasgow open probes of their own
>commit suicide
>have people portray you as a victim?
Whatever else can be said about the "Jason Arday Affair," he was not the victim. Perhaps you can say he was the casualty, first, of his own mendacity and race-fired megalomania and second, of an educational establishment that, marinated in the anti-white, self-flagellating racial animosities of the moment, colluded in the construction of Arday's fantastical, self-aggrandizing, and ultimately self-destructive fantasies.

Kurt Schlichter on the latest race grift:

Fake Professor Jason Arday was found dead in the wake of being exposed as a complete fraud, and if it were my choice, he would still be alive and suffering the humiliation that should be the result of his crimes. I would prefer that he did not likely choose to kill himself instead of facing the consequences of his actions. My preference is irrelevant. If he decided to do himself in, it's crushing for his wife and kids, and that was a selfish, cruel, and stupid decision. But it was his decision, as was his decision to commit fraud upon fraud. I don't celebrate his death, and his death changes nothing. We're not going to stop rooting out the charlatans.
Of course, the entirely predictable response of the institutional left to his cowardly and apparent self-deletion has been to insist, loudly and with quivering outrage, that his death is our fault. You see, we normal people pointed out that he lied about his background, his achievements, his credentials, and his work. The fact that we did what a functioning institution should've done itself outraged his boosters, so these moral illiterates now invert the moral calculus to keep the exposure of academic fraud from happening again. Arday lied pathologically and endlessly, enabled by a ridiculously solicitous academia, then likely killed himself when his lies were exposed. Obviously, the villains are the people who did not lie and did not choose to end his life.
And you'll never guess their key accusation in a million years.
Okay, you guessed it: RACISM!

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But let's be serious about these condescending leftists. They knew Arday was a phony. They also knew he was useful. His existence supported their narrative, so that irritating objective truth thing could be dispensed with. But he was never their peer; he was their pet. They tried to make Jason Arday into something he wasn't -- an intellectual and a genius -- because he was a good-looking black guy with the kind of lengthy dreads that send a tingle down the legs of childless liberal wine women who spend their endless free time reading Ibram X. Kendi's tomes (that relic of Woke 1.0 is yet another clown whose scamming was too much even for left-wing academia to bear) and doing the work to ameliorate their appalling residual whiteness.
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The new party line is that we're to blame. It's our fault that Arday is dead. You see, if we hadn't told the truth about his many, many lies and exposed them, this never would have happened. And that's probably true, in a sense. He would've gone on being a celebrated icon of the left, though most of the left understood he was a joke and kept their laughter in check for the good of the movement.
...

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

NEW Students of Jason Arday address a vigil, telling a crowd

“Racism did this”

“For many of us, Cambridge was once imagined as an arrival..we believed in the university..that we might belong”

“Jason’s death & the cruelty & smear around him reminds us that for many, we do not” pic.twitter.com/YDu4oboUSz
— Mousumi Bakshi 📣 (@mo_bakshi) August 16, 2026

Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
14h
Never forget that Arday sicced police and lawyers on people to silence them from reporting out his lies and plagiarism. It took very brave people to continue investigating when others were intimidated into stopping.
Arday killed himself once his house of lies finally collapsed under its own weight and he couldn't face the world to say two words: "I'm sorry."
From Jussie Smollett to George Floyd, leftists always pick unethical, violent and/or fraudulent people as their heroes.

I’m undercover at the London rally for the deceased DEI academic fraud Jason Arday. Thousands are here to defend DEI and the lies of Arday, who k—lled himself after he was outed by journalists as a fraud.

The crowd are doing BLM-style chants and fist pumps, mirroring how BLM is… pic.twitter.com/1bQJWSmtgP
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 17, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:42 PM

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1 Well, he did crack the code

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 17, 2026 04:42 PM (N1DT3)

2 I mean, eventually it's going to cause a backlash, but grifters know you gotta take every chance you can get.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 17, 2026 04:43 PM (N1DT3)

3 Is it any surprise that the most prominent people taking advantage of an obvious grift are ALSO obvious grifters?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 17, 2026 04:44 PM (N1DT3)

4 I guess I better nood.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 17, 2026 04:44 PM (N1DT3)

5 And back

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 17, 2026 04:44 PM (N1DT3)

6 saw a great comment on X about this "blame whitey" narrative for Arday's death:

"He finally did something himself and you want to give credit to someone else"

Posted by: the dandy at August 17, 2026 04:45 PM (8l8nW)

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

Yes, he understood the grift. The police have been well-trained to support the grift everywhere they can.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 17, 2026 04:45 PM (N1DT3)

8 6 saw a great comment on X about this "blame whitey" narrative for Arday's death:

"He finally did something himself and you want to give credit to someone else"
Posted by: the dandy at August 17, 2026 04:45 PM (8l8nW)

That's absolutely terrible and I'm a terrible person for laughing out loud.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 17, 2026 04:46 PM (N1DT3)

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

—

They’re as rock ribbed conservative as we are.
- National Review

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 17, 2026 04:46 PM (dKrJA)

10 I'd like to see who paid Arday's lawyers.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2026 04:46 PM (rp63B)

11 En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at August 17, 2026 04:47 PM (0sNs1)

12 8 6 saw a great comment on X about this "blame whitey" narrative for Arday's death:

"He finally did something himself and you want to give credit to someone else"
Posted by: the dandy at August 17, 2026 04:45 PM (8l8nW)

That's absolutely terrible and I'm a terrible person for laughing out loud.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 17, 2026 04:46 PM (N1DT3)

Clever clever cruelty. An HQ specialty.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 04:48 PM (Gqar8)

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

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ain't that the truth

Posted by: runner at August 17, 2026 04:48 PM (g47mK)

14 Yeah, cause Ward Churchill was left alone because white.

Posted by: Bete at August 17, 2026 04:49 PM (LX4y3)

15 Arday's students whom he did not teach were happy to be not taught by him. They loved not taking a class from him. And now, they won't be able to not take a class from him any longer.

Posted by: huerfano at August 17, 2026 04:49 PM (2Xqig)

16 Frankly, my dear, I don't give a fuck about Jason Arday.
Gonna' go fold my underwear.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 04:49 PM (EYrlY)

17 Looking at the video... yeah, that's what the average Brit crowd looks like...

Yeah, I know.

Posted by: man at August 17, 2026 04:49 PM (XuXeR)

18 >>>>turn 600 miles of margarine in six days into twelve

600 miles of a marathon?

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 04:50 PM (odBC9)

19 > Racism did this...

Yes, but not the way they're saying. Racism gave Arday a position of authority he did not earn and burdened him with responsibilities he could not fulfill. Arday collapsed spectacularly when realists exposed his fraud and the fraud of his employers.

Arday was a turtle who jumped from his post.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2026 04:50 PM (mkw2N)

20 15 Arday's students whom he did not teach were happy to be not taught by him. They loved not taking a class from him. And now, they won't be able to not take a class from him any longer.
Posted by: huerfano at August 17, 2026 04:49 PM (2Xqig)

So Unfair!! All because of White People, of course.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 04:50 PM (Gqar8)

21 600 miles of margarine is a really slippery slope.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 04:51 PM (Gqar8)

22 Was this guy famous at all? I had never heard of him. Granted I have no interest in anything to do with academia. Had he written best selling books or something. Seems weird how a university plagiarism story blew up like that.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 17, 2026 04:51 PM (dKrJA)

23 From Jussie Smollett to George Floyd, leftists always pick unethical, violent and/or fraudulent people as their heroes.
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Leftists are all, to a man, unethical, violent and/or fraudulent, so there's nothing else to pick from. Period.

Posted by: ballistic at August 17, 2026 04:52 PM (oqH4h)

24 Honkeys ruin everything!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2026 04:52 PM (uipH1)

25 "600 Miles of Margarine" by the Proclaimers did not fare as well as their hit "500 Miles."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 17, 2026 04:53 PM (amcLV)

26 "Jason Arday's academic rise and fall set off a debate about whether he was a plagiarist or victim of a racial witch hunt."

The only victim here is the truth. His "background" was literally too good to be true but they wanted to believe it so they believed it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 17, 2026 04:53 PM (cpFbA)

27
Many people have noted that Arday could have made money and a brand new career off this scandal. Jayson Blair got a $500,000 advance for "Burning Down My Master's House."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 04:53 PM (XJ22o)

28 Hold on. It's not the end of the week yet. His super healing powers may not have fully kicked in yet.

I have been having stoicism lectures from YouTube on in the background. I think the Venn diagram containing stoicism and lefties has two circles not touching.

With one circle holding out a pudgy finger shrieking "OLD, EVIL, RACIST WHITE GUYS!!"

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 17, 2026 04:53 PM (Sco7b)

29 25 "600 Miles of Margarine" by the Proclaimers did not fare as well as their hit "500 Miles."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 17, 2026 04:53 PM (amcLV)

500 Miles is a truly ghastly earwig.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 04:54 PM (Gqar8)

30 The only victim here is the truth. His "background" was literally too good to be true but they wanted to believe it so they believed it.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 17, 2026 04:53 PM (cpFbA)
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I mean it's a half-inch away from "Kim Jong Il played golf for the first time and scored an 18."

Commit bullshit through and through.

Posted by: ballistic at August 17, 2026 04:54 PM (oqH4h)

31 Commie bullshit

Posted by: ballistic at August 17, 2026 04:55 PM (oqH4h)

32 So, you're on the Cambridge Tenure Committee... Jason Arday or George Costanza?

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 17, 2026 04:55 PM (yyBU8)

33 If you have to lie to make your point, then you don't have one, except maybe on the crown of your head.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 04:55 PM (PVjNi)

34 Eugippius' take is that Arday's meteoric rise was due to being one of a few pleasant looking black intellectuals available.
John Carter of Mars' take is that Arday's rise is due to his open forgiving look where most black intellectuals either have a resting bitchface or go peak Black Panther.
Both feel it was as much a fraud as his self reported history, achievements and career.

My take is that Arday was who was selected because he was the only candidate left after the competent people were told to get off the grounds because they were white, straight, or had actual ability.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2026 04:55 PM (rbvCR)

35 6 saw a great comment on X about this "blame whitey" narrative for Arday's death:

"He finally did something himself and you want to give credit to someone else"
Posted by: the dandy at August 17, 2026 04:45 PM (8l8nW)

Good one.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 04:55 PM (odBC9)

36 31 Commie bullshit
Posted by: ballistic at August 17, 2026 04:55 PM (oqH4h)

Commit works too.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 04:55 PM (Gqar8)

37 Uckfay Arday.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 17, 2026 04:56 PM (ndZc7)

38 Someone on zerohedge.

How did Arday possibly complete 30 marathons in 35 days!?

Running from bank guards.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 17, 2026 04:57 PM (Sco7b)

39 That's an enormous crowd, supporting academic dishonesty and race-baiting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2026 04:57 PM (gYIcH)

40 aw a great comment on X about this "blame whitey" narrative for Arday's death:

"He finally did something himself and you want to give credit to someone else"
Posted by: the dandy at August 17, 2026 04:45 PM (8l8nW)
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I thought that myself, but did not phrase it as well.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 17, 2026 04:57 PM (amcLV)

41 I subscribe to the wall street journal for 30+ years. And dumped them about three years ago.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 17, 2026 04:57 PM (pim0Q)

42 There's a reason they always choose someone like Arday versus someone like Thomas Sowell for their diversity. Arday is never going to be a threat to them and the money wasted on promoting him comes from the taxpayer.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 04:57 PM (uhVAy)

43 >blame autistic mimicry, a l supervisor who left, & one you never met
...
>have your Jesus College page quietly turn Professorial Fellow into l Fellow & a Liverpool master's vanish

There're some random ells here: a ell supervisor, [an] ell Fellow

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 04:58 PM (odBC9)

44 > The only victim here is the truth. His "background" was literally too good to be true but they wanted to believe it so they believed it.

Places like Cambridge often employ due diligence firms like Kroll to investigate prospective professors. I'd be curious to see if anyone can find out if they had an investigation, what the report said, and whether the hiring committee ignored their findings. Or possibly the firm's findings were doctored.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2026 04:58 PM (mkw2N)

45 18 >>>>turn 600 miles of margarine in six days into twelve

600 miles of a marathon?
Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 04:50 PM (odBC9)

ANY margarine is awful, but 600 miles of it is a nightmare.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 04:58 PM (PVjNi)

46
"Jason Arday's academic rise and fall set off a debate about whether he was a plagiarist or victim of a racial witch hunt."

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Of course the WSJ wrote this. There is no "debate." On one side are people who refuse to address a single fact about Arday. I gave myself another ulcer hate-watching some of these people on the BBC and you couldn't even get them to admit the basics.

Interviewer: "Does one plus one equal two?"

Professor Heebiejeebiela: "You would never ask that of a white professor!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 04:58 PM (XJ22o)

47 21 600 miles of margarine is a really slippery slope.
Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 04:51 PM (Gqar

; )

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 04:58 PM (odBC9)

48 "600 Miles of Margarine" by the Proclaimers did not fare as well as their hit "500 Miles."
Posted by: Captain Obvious

The copyright kept Lizzo from using the title for her next album, though.

Which is probably racism.

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 04:59 PM (VHUov)

49 Whatever happened to "hubris?"

I'd say that's really at the root of the Jason Arday affair.

His own pride devoured him.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2026 04:59 PM (FZ29D)

50 If he had just laid low a few years he probably would have gotten a fat book deal to write a book about his fraud.

Posted by: steevy at August 17, 2026 04:59 PM (YwEeS)

51 43 >blame autistic mimicry, a l supervisor who left, & one you never met
...
>have your Jesus College page quietly turn Professorial Fellow into l Fellow & a Liverpool master's vanish

There're some random ells here: a ell supervisor, [an] ell Fellow
Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 04:58 PM (odBC9)

AI be glitchy sometimes.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 04:59 PM (Gqar8)

52 From Jussie Smollett to George Floyd, leftists always pick unethical, violent and/or fraudulent people as their heroes.
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This is unspeakably wicked, by the way.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 17, 2026 05:00 PM (akQZV)

53 There're some random ells here: a ell supervisor, [an] ell Fellow
Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 04:58 PM (odBC9)
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levorotatory

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 17, 2026 05:00 PM (amcLV)

54 Like Hitler killed Hitler, Arday killed Arday.
Both ardent socialists....mmmm
Correlation might be causation.

Posted by: torabora at August 17, 2026 05:01 PM (LC+5l)

55 He was a black man, of course he had no agency.

Posted by: Liberals at August 17, 2026 05:01 PM (jvkDG)

56 600 miles of margarine

It's like the story of the tigers in the Little Black Sambo story!

Wikipedia:

Sambo encounters four hungry tigers, and he surrenders his colourful new clothes, shoes and umbrella so that they will not eat him.

The tigers are vain and each thinks that it is better dressed than the others. They have a big argument and chase each other around a tree until they are reduced to a pool of ghee (clarified butter).

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 05:01 PM (odBC9)

57 Was this guy famous at all? I had never heard of him. Granted I have no interest in anything to do with academia. Had he written best selling books or something. Seems weird how a university plagiarism story blew up like that.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 17, 2026 04:51 PM (dKrJA)

Like AOC, he was a big name on the intellectual circuit in the UK. Had a prime position in a University there (and they have a lot fewer than here), was undoubtedly on all the best shows on the best channels.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:01 PM (uhVAy)

58 Margarine - I CAN believe it’s not butter.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 05:01 PM (Gqar8)

59 I understand his parents are going through great pain with the permanent loss of their son, but they also know his mutism, illiteracy, and other stories from his childhood were pure BS. They let him lie publicly and prodigiously for years for his advancement and fame. They're not blameless in all of this.

Posted by: Wally at August 17, 2026 05:01 PM (avzFa)

60 r/blackpeopleofreddit

Nathan Cofnas, the man at the centre of Arday plagiarism row, was dismissed for views on race. I saw his interview with Nathan Cofnas discussing Jason Arday. They appeared to suggest, and I’m paraphrasing, that “nature had righted the wrong” and that people with the “right” degrees and credentials could now become professors again.

"Cofnas was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1986 or 1987. He was raised Jewish and grew up in Manhattan." That explains a LOT.

FFS, born in Chicago! What the hell is in the water here? We have NIck Fuentes, Tim Pool, Charlie Kirk in the Chicago suburbs… We have to do a better job of shipping these people out to the red states.

Illinois overall is pretty damn racist.

All this for entertainment of the white right, essentially. And for white racists to feel smug that a black person lied about something. When the other side lies as a matter of course and can NEVER be trusted.

It was a witch hunt. White professors who plagiarise or white politicians who steal never get this kind of scrutiny. I hope the media and the UK reflect on this, I doubt it. They will be on to the next victim.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 17, 2026 05:02 PM (orDeD)

61 44 > The only victim here is the truth. His "background" was literally too good to be true but they wanted to believe it so they believed it.

Places like Cambridge often employ due diligence firms like Kroll to investigate prospective professors. I'd be curious to see if anyone can find out if they had an investigation, what the report said, and whether the hiring committee ignored their findings. Or possibly the firm's findings were doctored.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2026 04:58 PM (mkw2N)

Surely they have NDAs.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 05:03 PM (odBC9)

62 If he had just laid low a few years he probably would have gotten a fat book deal to write a book about his fraud.
Posted by: steevy at August 17, 2026 04:59 PM (YwEeS)

doubtful, Jussie himself doesn't get those acting gigs. They have new tools now.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:03 PM (uhVAy)

63 Ward Churchill was kind of a prototype. An early adopter or whatever. They are common now.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 17, 2026 05:03 PM (akQZV)

64 Yes the left has decided "right wingers witch hunt" and he was "lynched" is the angle to go with.

Posted by: steevy at August 17, 2026 05:03 PM (YwEeS)

65 How come racism is never questioned when it involves a white person, mostly white men?

Yea, I know the answer. If the left didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2026 05:04 PM (viF8m)

66 I’m undercover at the London rally for the deceased DEI academic fraud Jason Arday. Thousands are here to defend DEI and the lies of Arday,

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Long ago universities were the bastions of truth, today they are the pits of lies and anger.

Posted by: Decaf at August 17, 2026 05:04 PM (ZNpJk)

67 Say "what I am not is a liar"
****,
I said I'm not a crook and it didn't get me anywhere. But I didn't unalive myself either.

Posted by: Zombie Richard Nixon at August 17, 2026 05:04 PM (LC+5l)

68 I understand his parents are going through great pain with the permanent loss of their son, but they also know his mutism, illiteracy, and other stories from his childhood were pure BS. They let him lie publicly and prodigiously for years for his advancement and fame. They're not blameless in all of this.

Posted by: Wally at August 17, 2026 05:01 PM

There are a whole bunch of people who need to share the blame for this guy. His parents are just at the top of the list.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 17, 2026 05:04 PM (cpFbA)

69 It was a witch hunt. White professors who plagiarise or white politicians who steal never get this kind of scrutiny. I hope the media and the UK reflect on this, I doubt it. They will be on to the next victim.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 17, 2026 05:02 PM (orDeD)

No, you stupid ass, white professors who plagiarize are dismissed without fanfare, because nobody is stomping their boots on pavement about how noble whitey is to have made it this far in academia. Black professors who plagiarize have lots of folks yelling and screaming "racism" instead of looking at the facts of the case.

Black privilege.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 05:05 PM (PVjNi)

70 > The only victim here is the truth. His "background" was literally too good to be true but they wanted to believe it so they believed it.

Places like Cambridge often employ due diligence firms like Kroll to investigate prospective professors. I'd be curious to see if anyone can find out if they had an investigation, what the report said, and whether the hiring committee ignored their findings. Or possibly the firm's findings were doctored.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2026 04:58 PM (mkw2N)

Surely they have NDAs.
Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 05:03 PM (odBC9)

Either not done in this case or they ignored it, take your pick. It isn't like even a little thinking collapses his stories into Paul Bunyan type myths, so they weren't fooled or honest when they hired him.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)

71 Arday was a turtle who jumped from his post.
Posted by: bonhomme

He's one of the post turtles who was actually put back on the ground.

"When you were told you were an eagle, then learned you are a turtle, you will drown yourself." -- Confucius, probably

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 05:05 PM (VHUov)

72 I do hope they set up a fund to set up an AI to go through ALL of the Master and PhD theses over the last 30 years to check for plagiarism and to make sure they were actually written by the degree-holder.

What a beautiful way to honor Arday's memory.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 17, 2026 05:05 PM (Sco7b)

73 More honorable than Claudine Gay.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 17, 2026 05:06 PM (bX16E)

74 I have a relative who believes ALL of the white racism garbage the Left spoon feeds her - female, 40’s, liberal,college educated, found a brown guy to marry. Poster child for a type of self loather.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 05:06 PM (Gqar8)

75
Arday was kind of the Ultimate Trannie.

He pretended to be something he clearly was not, a Cambridge Elite Intellectual, but-

used the bullying and never-ending malice of the Left to force compliance with his pitiful mummery and silly frolic among the academics.

If only he'd claimed to be a woman, that would've been the Grand Slam of Fake Achievement. Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2026 05:06 PM (iJfKG)

76 Arday's argument was that UK universities, even education itself should be "decolonialized."

Nonsensical, you say? When was England ever a colony?

But that's not it!!

Education is based on (superior) western thought and precepts and should not be. The global south has something to offer that should be included in western efucation. Just because.

What? Collectivism

The it takes a villiage shibboleth.

So marxism, oh no, that's western. We mean community.

But the catholics, jews, quakers, et al have been preaching community and family for 5 thousand years?

Um

Posted by: dagny at August 17, 2026 05:06 PM (chM/Q)

77 Hubris → Atis → Nemesis → Tisis.

Posted by: 13times at August 17, 2026 05:06 PM (6iKlf)

78 Either not done in this case or they ignored it, take your pick. It isn't like even a little thinking collapses his stories into Paul Bunyan type myths, so they weren't fooled or honest when they hired him.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)

Or the folks on the selection committee are as stupid as paste.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 05:07 PM (PVjNi)

79 Why don't These People understand that hiring Arday was racist?

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 05:07 PM (odBC9)

80 Did Ace cover that Atlantic article by the black dude who quit his tenure track position (to write at the Atlantic) because he felt like a token black?

It is really stunning -- he seems to understand that he advanced his whole life thanks to DEI, and only recently started to think that every black person he met in a high position was probably incompetent. So it only took him his whole life till now to understand the problem with affirmative action -- it tars all minorities as unqualified even if they are qualified.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 17, 2026 05:07 PM (yljFf)

81 and only recently started to think that every black person he met in a high position was probably incompetent.
==
this too, is the story of Obama

Posted by: in before you at August 17, 2026 05:09 PM (jvkDG)

82 FFS, born in Chicago! What the hell is in the water here? We have NIck Fuentes, Tim Pool, Charlie Kirk in the Chicago suburbs… We have to do a better job of shipping these people out to the red states.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 17, 2026 05:02 PM (orDeD)

What is in the water is that you can see on the streets even a generation and a half ago that Chicago is one of the least American in modes of though parts of the US. Politics was corrupt and winked at, looting the state and city was normal. Anyone who still has American values who lives there thinks of it as a foreign land. I was one of them when I went to Grad School there.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:09 PM (uhVAy)

83 All backwards. It's blacks like him who make it difficult for hardworking, inventive, entrepreneuring, self-sufficient blacks.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 17, 2026 05:10 PM (n5tGW)

84
Too bad the protesting people are not out there everyday protesting the government who has ruined their country by importing muzzies.

Posted by: four seasons at August 17, 2026 05:10 PM (/QHx4)

85 74 I have a relative who believes ALL of the white racism garbage the Left spoon feeds her - female, 40’s, liberal,college educated, found a brown guy to marry. Poster child for a type of self loather.
Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 05:06 PM (Gqar

The silly leftist I check with on Facebook to see the latest idiocies is likewise white as snow but he married a black woman (likewise an idiot, I knew them in college) so he thinks he is the epitome of the righteous man. Nauseating. He bragged that when he worked with Boy Scouts he convinced an old Scout leader to be "more accepting of gays." He also spouts the No Kings crap, and he is all in on "fighting the power with truth."

He is so upset that conservatives are such H8Rs, he can't see the hate he spews daily.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 05:10 PM (PVjNi)

86 Hollywood should Jason's life story starring Tom Cruise.

"A Colored Man In Cambridge"

Lots of stupid people will pay to see it.

Posted by: Hollis P. Wood at August 17, 2026 05:11 PM (pq3aS)

87 Dingos ate my racism.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 17, 2026 05:11 PM (nOND2)

88 He lied his self as far up the food chain as he could get.
Reminds me of the Ghanian illegal alien Iowa schools chief who recently was deported after being found out.

At least Arday deported off the planet. The other guy is out there scheming how to get back. Get back. Get back to where you once belonged.

Posted by: torabora at August 17, 2026 05:11 PM (LC+5l)

89 Did Ace cover that Atlantic article by the black dude who quit his tenure track position (to write at the Atlantic) because he felt like a token black?

It is really stunning -- he seems to understand that he advanced his whole life thanks to DEI, and only recently started to think that every black person he met in a high position was probably incompetent. So it only took him his whole life till now to understand the problem with affirmative action -- it tars all minorities as unqualified even if they are qualified.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 17, 2026 05:07 PM (yljFf)

Does he think his job at the Atlantic is any different? It is tokenism all the way down at those types of places.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:11 PM (uhVAy)

90 I cannot--help but feel bad for Arday and his family, which includes his widow, two young children, ...
---------

Of course I feel sorry for the wife and children. They are in a terrible situation that is not of their own making. For Arday, himself, not so much.

I feel sorrow for the children of Goebbels too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2026 05:11 PM (XeU6L)

91 77 Hubris → Atis → Nemesis → Tisis.
Posted by: 13times at August 17, 2026 05:06 PM (6iKlf)

"Hubris, Ate, and Nemesis are three minor Greek deities, mostly remembered today for their function in ancient Greek drama."

Hubris - arrogance
Ate - folly
Nemesis - retribution (of divine justice)

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 05:11 PM (odBC9)

92 Should have trolled these assholes by wearing a Crystal Palace jersey to the rally.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 17, 2026 05:12 PM (rJ48h)

93 Either not done in this case or they ignored it, take your pick. It isn't like even a little thinking collapses his stories into Paul Bunyan type myths, so they weren't fooled or honest when they hired him.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)

Or the folks on the selection committee are as stupid as paste.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 05:07 PM (PVjNi)

I'm sure they are very stupid, but nobody is THAT stupid.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)

94 Yeah, it's all the "White peoples" fault. Believe your own bullshit so you can pass the blame. You get free housing, free food and a free education but you can't make an honest living. Why I'm always going to jail? Because you break the law. Why can't I get a good paying job? Because you can barely read or write because when you were young you blew off school and ran around with thugs instead. But of course it's all the White mans fault. Do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Case at August 17, 2026 05:13 PM (UKrJG)

95 Are we sure of 2 things:
Wife and kids exist
It wasn't a sham marriage

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 17, 2026 05:13 PM (nOND2)

96 It was a witch hunt. White professors who plagiarise or white politicians who steal never get this kind of scrutiny. I hope the media and the UK reflect on this, I doubt it. They will be on to the next victim.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Got one thing right, Biden did the same and Reddit loved him.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 17, 2026 05:13 PM (NnhvP)

97 I'm sure they are very stupid, but nobody is THAT stupid.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)

I see you never met my oldest sister.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 05:13 PM (PVjNi)

98 Uggh. Warren Washington people. The American Meteorological Society as an annual award named after him. Or George Washington Carver, Carver should be famous enough that even Brits would have heard of him.

Point with W.W. is that blacks damn well could and did reach the pinnacles of academia, research before racist white liberals came up with Affirmative Action to cast doubt on minority achievements.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 17, 2026 05:15 PM (Aq/6w)

99
Was this guy famous at all? I had never heard of him. Granted I have no interest in anything to do with academia. Had he written best selling books or something. Seems weird how a university plagiarism story blew up like that.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

=================

It blew up because of the implications that this guy got lionized in academia (Cambridge's youngest black professor) only because of his race.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 05:15 PM (XJ22o)

100 I can't believe this guy was straight.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2026 05:15 PM (TjiFM)

101 Too bad the protesting people are not out there everyday protesting the government who has ruined their country by importing muzzies.

Posted by: four seasons at August 17, 2026
****
They'll be protesting when heads are being lopped off in soccer stadiums here, but they're going to be in the line so too late.

Posted by: torabora at August 17, 2026 05:15 PM (LC+5l)

102 >>Of course I feel sorry for the wife and children. They are in a terrible situation that is not of their own making. For Arday, himself, not so much.

Kids. I have a hard time believing his wife didn't know he was a scammer and went along with it for the money and prestige.

Or she's too stupid to feel pain.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2026 05:16 PM (viF8m)

103 Actually, blame the Jews and the world is your oyster.

Posted by: Oystergruppenfuhrer Platner at August 17, 2026 05:16 PM (qwype)

104 Education is based on (superior) western thought and precepts and should not be. The global south has something to offer that should be included in western efucation. Just because.

What? Collectivism

The it takes a villiage shibboleth.

So marxism, oh no, that's western. We mean community.

Communism, Socialism, all those flavors are Western ideologies. I'll start buying into this 'uncolonial ideas' when they start putting up Bhuddist or Confucian ideas, and not the woozy western version hippies got from trips to India.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:16 PM (uhVAy)

105 Stupid people have stupid problems. And I can’t really bring myself to give a shit.

If grifting off dimwitted shitlibs is as easy as this, everyone should be doing it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2026 05:16 PM (Ie9Qa)

106 Hubris Ate Nemesis would be a great name for a rock band.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 17, 2026 05:16 PM (n5tGW)

107 This fraud dovetails nicely with the report from the U of Berkeley math professor who says that his students, at a supposedly elite university can't do middle school math. The education system in the West has been crap since at least the 90s

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2026 05:16 PM (rp63B)

108 Point with W.W. is that blacks damn well could and did reach the pinnacles of academia, research before racist white liberals came up with Affirmative Action to cast doubt on minority achievements.
==
Damn straight, MFer.

Posted by: Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas at August 17, 2026 05:16 PM (jvkDG)

109 100 I can't believe this guy was straight.
Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2026 05:15 PM (TjiFM)

Wellllll - Obama is married, with kids too. Straight as an arrow.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (Gqar8)

110 Actually, blame the Jews and the world is your oyster.
Posted by: Oystergruppenfuhrer Platner at August 17, 2026 05:16 PM (qwype)

Only about half the world. The rest persecutes the expatriate Chinese communities they have.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (uhVAy)

111 "A Colored Man In Cambridge"

Lots of stupid people will pay to see it.
Posted by: Hollis P. Wood at August 17, 2026 05:11 PM (pq3aS)

The Last Scamarai?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (Ot/FD)

112 94 Yeah, it's all the "White peoples" fault. Believe your own bullshit so you can pass the blame.

Posted by: Case at August 17, 2026 05:13 PM (UKrJG)

It's so sad.

They're capable of building a Wakanda.

But we whites keep holding them back and they end up with Detroit. And Oakland.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (Sco7b)

113 That guy had some epically stupid lies; i'm surprised he didn't lie about women or dudes he was hooking up with; maybe he avoided that because he was afraid he would get called out.
I've seen people get destroyed on social media for way less than the tower of bullsh*t this guy lived on so my sympathy is pretty well nonexistent. Also, he was English so i really don't give a f**k.

Posted by: Nelly at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (6+ehB)

114 Are we sure he's just not taking credit for someone else's suicide?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (g6pne)

115 Arday's the new UK version of George Floyd?

I guess he can't breathe, either.

Brainwashed students obey their masters.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (hzuYO)

116 Might simmer before it blows open.

The Independent, 'Jason Arday’s family statement in full after former Cambridge professor found dead
The family said they are ’in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son’ Summer Woolley,
Saturday 15 August 2026

In part, “Jason was subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse for more than three years since he accepted the role of professor at Cambridge University by those who would leave no stone unturned in their quest to undermine him.

“The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, who was a gentle man and who always wanted to see the best in everyone. We are in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son."

“We won’t comment further at this point beyond asking the press to leave us alone now, and to stop the campaign of harassment which has been waged against Jason and his family for too long.”
---
Dr. Arday & wife married in 2014 & split in 2019. They had 2 children & remained close.

hbcustorian,
The life and death of Professor Jason Arday should drive home the point anew: nothing about respectability or exceptionality can save Black people from white supremacy.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (NFX2v)

117 "It takes a Village to Raise a Child"

What a bunch of twaddle. Now we have to sit back and watch a Child raze a Village. Stupid fucking wenches.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (akQZV)

118 This, too, is the story of "teens" at the Wisconsin State Fair.

Posted by: Hushed narrator voice at August 17, 2026 05:18 PM (2Ez/1)

119 Bubba Wallace is thriving, even though he started a racial mess that was all bullshit. I'm sure NASCAR forked over some millions for something that didn't happen.

Posted by: 15 FBI Agents Descend On Garage at August 17, 2026 05:18 PM (JM9I6)

120 >>>>All backwards. It's blacks like him who make it difficult for hardworking, inventive, entrepreneuring, self-sufficient blacks.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 17, 2026 05:10 PM (n5tGW)
****
So true, its teh 90% that makes it hard for the other 10% (maybe).

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 17, 2026 05:18 PM (yyBU8)

121
Lol Victor

Posted by: four seasons at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (/QHx4)

122 111 "A Colored Man In Cambridge"

Lots of stupid people will pay to see it.
Posted by: Hollis P. Wood at August 17, 2026 05:11 PM (pq3aS)

The Last Scamarai?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 17, 2026 05:17 PM (Ot/FD)

Ooooh that’s good!

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (Gqar8)

123 The crowd are doing BLM-style chants and fist pumps,
......

Harmless Milli Vanilli fans.

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (UjdFS)

124 Sad to say, but I am developing a strange new respect for teh ressisms.

It's catchy. Like pickleball.

Given that the alternative is being a doormat and victim for low IQ savages, I'm at peace with it.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (nOND2)

125 83 All backwards. It's blacks like him who make it difficult for hardworking, inventive, entrepreneuring, self-sufficient blacks.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 17, 2026 05:10 PM (n5tGW)

It's people like him who make it difficult for hardworking, inventive, entrepreneuring, self-sufficient people.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (odBC9)

126 It takes a village to shoot and bury all the communists.

I like my version better.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (Ie9Qa)

127 Bubba Wallace is thriving, even though he started a racial mess that was all bullshit. I'm sure NASCAR forked over some millions for something that didn't happen.
Posted by: 15 FBI Agents Descend On Garage at August 17, 2026 05:18 PM (JM9I6)

You'd have to first convince me that it wasn't all NASCAR's idea to begin with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (Ot/FD)

128 I have a hard time believing his wife didn't know he was a scammer and went along with it for the money and prestige.

Or she's too stupid to feel pain.
Posted by: JackStraw

When you don't notice your husband isn't actually missing for a month+ when he's running 30 marathons in 35 days..... that would be a special kind of stupid.

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (VHUov)

129 He had a radio bbc series, had FIVE bbc documentaries, had many many newspaper spreads, was given many many honary degrees, had a TED talk, was on a bbc question time panel, had innumerable padcast and radio interviews, Signed and had ghost written a 1.4 mil book deal.

He was well know ENOUGH for someone to notice he was full of shit.

Posted by: dagny at August 17, 2026 05:20 PM (chM/Q)

130 Forget about the plagiarism, Arday's biographical details were so over the top that anyone not retarded would have paused. But this is the age of political self-lobotomization, so everyone apparently just assumed he was a literal magic negro. This timeline is so dumb.

Posted by: pumpkin spice chewing tobacco at August 17, 2026 05:20 PM (+aL9E)

131 Sad to say, but I am developing a strange new respect for teh ressisms.

It's catchy. Like pickleball.

Given that the alternative is being a doormat and victim for low IQ savages, I'm at peace with it.

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (nOND2)

There's nobody in the world more racist than an elite leftist.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:20 PM (uhVAy)

132 Point with W.W. is that blacks damn well could and did reach the pinnacles of academia, research before racist white liberals came up with Affirmative Action to cast doubt on minority achievements.
==
Damn straight, MFer.
Posted by: Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas
------

Ben Carson

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2026 05:20 PM (XeU6L)

133 >>126 It takes a village to shoot and bury all the communists.

Sometimes it's easiest to just hit the entire village with napalm.

Posted by: Roy at August 17, 2026 05:21 PM (qwype)

134
hbcustorian,
The life and death of Professor Jason Arday should drive home the point anew: nothing about respectability or exceptionality can save Black people from white supremacy.

OFFS

Posted by: It's me donna at August 17, 2026 05:21 PM (FtULh)

135
Gonna' go fold my underwear.

Nobody will see the wrinkles.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2026 05:21 PM (Cqx++)

136 Of course I feel sorry for the wife and children. They are in a terrible situation that is not of their own making. For Arday, himself, not so much.

Kids. I have a hard time believing his wife didn't know he was a scammer and went along with it for the money and prestige.

Or she's too stupid to feel pain.
===
Well, I let's face it. He was a decepticon basically. I 'm not sure how old his wife's kids are, but frankly, he wasn't going to be a good long term influence on them. Its painful now, but long term, the guy was a walking time bomb of lies, probably suffering from wildly powerful guilt and panic attacks. He wasn't going to get better surrounded by enabling leftists. He was going to get more twisted and unstable over time. Wasn't going to be a happy childhood, nor even a stable one.

Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 17, 2026 05:21 PM (jvkDG)

137 I have a hard time believing he was married to an actual woman.

Posted by: nckate at August 17, 2026 05:21 PM (enNUy)

138 >>When you don't notice your husband isn't actually missing for a month+ when he's running 30 marathons in 35 days..... that would be a special kind of stupid.

Right? I run an average of 5 ultra marathons a month and people notice when I'm not around.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2026 05:21 PM (viF8m)

139 135
Gonna' go fold my underwear.

Nobody will see the wrinkles.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2026 05:21 PM (Cqx++)

Gotta starch ‘em.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar8)

140 Did Ace cover that Atlantic article by the black dude who quit his tenure track position (to write at the Atlantic) because he felt like a token black?

It is really stunning -- he seems to understand that he advanced his whole life thanks to DEI, and only recently started to think that every black person he met in a high position was probably incompetent. So it only took him his whole life till now to understand the problem with affirmative action -- it tars all minorities as unqualified even if they are qualified.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 17, 2026 05:07 PM

At least he figured it out, he was at least smart enough to do that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 17, 2026 05:22 PM (cpFbA)

141 When you don't notice your husband isn't actually missing for a month+ when he's running 30 marathons in 35 days..... that would be a special kind of stupid.
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 05:19 PM (VHUov)

I'd like to see those travel vouchers. You must have to scramble to find 30 different marathons in that short a time.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:22 PM (uhVAy)

142 He also spouts the No Kings crap, and he is all in on "fighting the power with truth."
Posted by: tcn in AK

That's the truth they choose over facts, right?

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 05:22 PM (VHUov)

143 The way I'm reading all of this is that the internal polling for Dems must show an erosion of support among AWFLs and minorities. These groups may be drifting towards fringe movements like DSA, or significant numbers of voters might be suffering from anxiety fatigue and dropping out.

I dunno, but after years of driving people crazy with bullshit and propaganda, the DNC + MSM spin machine appears to be maxxed out with diminishing returns.

Posted by: mrp at August 17, 2026 05:22 PM (rj6Yv)

144 No ot didn't. He got caught in his lies and couldn't live with the shame or a cast out fraud he might have become.

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2026 05:23 PM (Ia/+0)

145 This is The Emperor has No Clothes played out in in the highest levels of academia. People so smug and educated that they failed to learn the lesson of a story told to little children.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2026 05:23 PM (Ie9Qa)

146 Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water ...

Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 05:23 PM (odBC9)

147 The entire 'Hate Whitey' curriculum is entirely plagiarized pseudo-intellectual quackery. The most enthusiastic are, as a rule, dumb as a post. They just spout thought-ending clichés. It's a hell of a grift, and probably still heavily subsidized by taxpayer dollars. Professional shit-stirrers, with a thin veneer of respectability. Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 17, 2026 05:24 PM (akQZV)

148 the DNC + MSM spin machine appears to be maxxed out with diminishing returns"

And they seem to be low on cash. Funny, no?

Posted by: man at August 17, 2026 05:24 PM (XuXeR)

149 Hey man I gots a new line of business with Hunter...

I am Slow Joe Blo Jiden...... It goes like this ....

Oh my God, Jill, look at Big Mike’s butt, it is so big, ugh
She looks like a rap guys' girlfriend or Commie Politician’s Mama
Who understands those Commie Guys? Ugh, they only talk to her
Because she looks like totally High T and manly, okay?
I mean, her butt and massive glutes, it's just so big like Hunter likes
Ugh, I can't believe it's just so round, it's like out there
I mean, ugh, gross, look, ugh, she's just so manly
I like big butts and I cannot lie and you other ex-Prez can't deny
When Big Mike walks in with that woman of color bod
And a round thing in your face, you get sprung
Wanna pull up tough 'cause you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in those pant suits she's wearin' I can't stop starin'

You say you wanna get in my Vette ?
Well, use me, use me 'cause you ain't average
I've seen 'em dancin', to hell with romancin'
She sweat, wet, got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette

Big Mike gots Back ..........

Posted by: Blo Jiden at August 17, 2026 05:24 PM (8lUeo)

150 This is The Emperor has No Clothes played out in in the highest levels of academia. People so smug and educated that they failed to learn the lesson of a story told to little children.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2026 05:23 PM (Ie9Qa)

White Euro Dominance Stories have no relevance.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:24 PM (uhVAy)

151 Communism, Socialism, all those flavors are Western ideologies. I'll start buying into this 'uncolonial ideas' when they start putting up Bhuddist or Confucian ideas, and not the woozy western version hippies got from trips to India.

They tried to find philosophy in grass huts, contaminated water, nose bones, female genital mutilation and street shitting.

They came up with ubuntu

Posted by: dagny at August 17, 2026 05:25 PM (chM/Q)

152 The life and death of Professor Jason Arday should drive home the point anew: nothing about respectability or exceptionality can save Black people from white supremacy.
==
the point missed

unearned respectability isn't respectable
unearned exceptionality isn't exceptional

Leftist phony promotionalism does a grave disservice to those promoted who did not earn it.

O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

Posted by: what is it with this insufferable prigs who work so HARD to miss the point at August 17, 2026 05:25 PM (jvkDG)

153 I am looking forward to the upcoming Netflix miniseries with Arday, Talcum X, and Rachel Dolemite.

I wonder which one Allen Richson will play...

Posted by: Sifty boones at August 17, 2026 05:26 PM (nOND2)

154 If Cambridge would have called him on his lies at the very beginning, he might still be alive.

But in the end, the only person responsible for Mr. Arday's suicide is Mr. Arday himself.

And that is all there is to it.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 17, 2026 05:26 PM (SRRAx)

155 Gonna' go fold my underwear.
.......

How do you fold a thong?

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2026 05:26 PM (UjdFS)

156 Posted by: Common Tater at August 17, 2026 05:24 PM (akQZV)

That's where ai comes in handy.

Global south contributions

Like what?

Posted by: dagny at August 17, 2026 05:26 PM (chM/Q)

157 He was only 41. If he'd have been able to run marathons to age 55, well, just think of how many thousands of marathons that is.

Posted by: Runnin' From The Cops Here at August 17, 2026 05:26 PM (JM9I6)

158 So, if the only reason black people cannot possibly succeed is whitey keeps 'em down, doesn't that mean that black people are incapable of rising above nay-sayers and succeeding on their own?

How is that not the most racist attitude ever?

What it means is that the complainers don't want to show up, put in the work, do the heavy lifting, and grab the golden ring.

There are a hell of a lot of white people who feel the same way, but I don't see them blaming black folks for their shortcomings.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 05:27 PM (PVjNi)

159 147 The entire 'Hate Whitey' curriculum is entirely plagiarized pseudo-intellectual quackery. The most enthusiastic are, as a rule, dumb as a post. They just spout thought-ending clichés. It's a hell of a grift, and probably still heavily subsidized by taxpayer dollars. Professional shit-stirrers, with a thin veneer of respectability. Nice work if you can get it.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 17, 2026 05:24 PM
++++

And it drives up our Blacktose Intolerance.

Posted by: Most people at August 17, 2026 05:27 PM (2Ez/1)

160 I would hope that this story gives a wake up call to a lot of the white students.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2026 05:27 PM (W90Ou)

161 And they seem to be low on cash. Funny, no?
Posted by: man at August 17, 2026 05:24 PM (XuXeR)

Don’t believe the DNC being broke is significant. They are always broke. The dems fund their candidates much differently than Reps.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2026 05:27 PM (Ie9Qa)

162 Sambo encounters four hungry tigers, and he surrenders his colourful new clothes, shoes and umbrella so that they will not eat him.
The tigers are vain and each thinks that it is better dressed than the others. They have a big argument and chase each other around a tree until they are reduced to a pool of ghee (clarified butter).
Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 05:01 PM (odBC9)

Sambo is a variation on a series of stories that go from Red Ridinghood in Europe, and the Tiger Grandmother stories from SE Asia. In a way they seem to reflect the story of Ishtar and that story's reflection, the story of Persephone and Demeter.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2026 05:27 PM (rbvCR)

163 saw a great comment on X about this "blame whitey" narrative for Arday's death:

"He finally did something himself and you want to give credit to someone else"
Posted by: the dandy at August 17, 2026 04:45 PM (8l8nW)

Good one.
Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 04:55 PM (odBC9)

I wish he waited until after his book came out. I understand his next project was to finish Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". The collaboration was going to be called...

...Arday/RR...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 05:27 PM (nbLIj)

164 It's been at a very minimum 15 years since being called a racist would even raise my eyebrow. These days in the USA it's just another way of saying hello.

Hey Racist, bro, how ya doin?
My Ray-C, it's been a long time!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 17, 2026 05:28 PM (n5tGW)

165 Leftist phony promotionalism does a grave disservice to those promoted who did not earn it.

O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
Posted by: what is it with this insufferable prigs who work so HARD to miss the point at August 17, 2026 05:25 PM (jvkDG)

And the hidden cost of the loss of a good, wise minority candidate position or non minority position in place of this person. Both of those might have challenged the conventional wisdom, which of course can not be allowed.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:28 PM (uhVAy)

166 Global south contributions

Like what?
Posted by: dagny at August 17, 2026 05:26 PM (chM/Q)

H1B and diversity!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2026 05:28 PM (rbvCR)

167
This is The Emperor has No Clothes played out in in the highest levels of academia. People so smug and educated that they failed to learn the lesson of a story told to little children.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

=================

To put it another way, instead of "little children" make that any blue-collar worker glancing over a resume for a new hire.

Foreman: "This guy claims WHAT? Fshh." (tosses resume)

College Professor: "HmmMMnmmnnNmmm. OoOOoo00o0ooOooh."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 05:29 PM (XJ22o)

168 Sambo’smMamma made him pancakes and used the Tiger butter on them.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2026 05:29 PM (Gqar8)

169 If grifting off dimwitted shitlibs is as easy as this, everyone should be doing it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

You want to see more? Go to any U or college's women studies.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 17, 2026 05:29 PM (NnhvP)

170 I simply cannot be made to care about Mr Arday.

Sad for his wife and kids though.

That’s the extent of it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 17, 2026 05:30 PM (W2Pud)

171 The wsj got too leftist for me back in the 90s sometime; IDK who thinks of it as being conservative, lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 17, 2026 05:30 PM (VyBeY)

172 It's impossible here in this hood. I tried to get ahead, but somebody done stole my bootstraps.

Posted by: Victim of Society at August 17, 2026 05:31 PM (JM9I6)

173 142 He also spouts the No Kings crap, and he is all in on "fighting the power with truth."
Posted by: tcn in AK

That's the truth they choose over facts, right?
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 05:22 PM (VHUov)

If I ever hear the phrase, "My truth," again, I will personally take a fork to the emitter.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 05:31 PM (PVjNi)

174 If grifting off dimwitted shitlibs is as easy as this, everyone should be doing it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

You want to see more? Go to any U or college's women studies.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 17, 2026 05:29 PM (NnhvP)

The dimwits keep their jobs and dodge any blowback. The Puppet Professors do the dancing and if that fails the suiciding.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2026 05:31 PM (uhVAy)

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