250 articles demonising this man were published by the British press in a short period of time between the initial story and his death, because the right were absolutely foaming at the mouth trying to claim a victory against “wokeness” and “DEI”. The UK does not have “DEI”, it’s another term adopted by British fascists as they try and yankify our politics. We have the Equality Act.
The British propaganda machine is deeply racist and killed Jason Arday. They are scum.
Looks like he was guilty of the unforgivable crime of Thinking While Black. The fact that the charlatan who made this clearly racist accusation received none of the intense scrutiny and hatred in the media, while this sensational and verifiably false claim against Arday became a major talking point among in the media is a prime example of how racism is not individual prejudice but an intrinsic, structural aspect of society.
too bad it was illegal to do journalism about this before he was publicly humiliated to death
Even if they were false why does it matter? In this capitalist hellhole i have to lie as a matter of literal survival. When I interview its all lies, when i tell bossman i did x or y its all lies, when i say “yes boss happy to enact your monumentally shit idea and i love it kiss kiss” its all lies.
We have grifters, snakes, charlatans all over the place why does one person potentially having lied about an achievement here warrant being harassed to death?
These include the Cambridge University professor’s claim that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days for charity and that he played semi-professional football, which both became central talking points in recent attacks on the late academic.
Holy shit its over the most meaningless crap as well.
i have no trouble believing somebody who was in good enough shape to actually run a whole marathon could jog a lot of them in short order. people hear “run a marathon” and assume you’re trying to beat the kenyans and not just finish the thing in 4 hours.
Most marathons are like 26 miles long and an average day of commuting walking for me is about 20 miles in a single day cos i live far as fuck away from anything AND IM NOT EVEN FIT IM A DESK JOCKEY.
There’s no like hard rule for any marathon afaik that means you have to sprint the whole way theyre supposed to be inclusive to finish at your own pace. The london marathon is 8 hours long you get 18 minutes a fucking mile i could crawl to the end on my hands and knees and make it in time.
commute walking 20 miles a day
Damn how fast you going? That’s like 7 hours of walking.
Well i cheat by going out with my friends after work before coming home eheh. 2 hours walking to work 2 hours home so 4 hours normally without angrily exaggerating. Usually walk for 2 hours during the work day for lunch break and outside that cos sitting at a desk sucks. Then i walk about an hour to my friends then we go out to find places to chill so lots of walking. Wake up at 6am get home 8pm usually unless im staying over someones. But yeah i may have over exaggerated in my frustration I also tend to speed walk but i never have measured it.
Apparently I missed this whole scandal, and I consider myself way too online, especially on hexbear every day. Was this mostly on UK news? You guys are supposed to post it here, where I get all my news.
Luckily this article was also a good summary it seems. This guy wrote a paper, and it seems the UK press made fun of him for plagiarism and making a bunch of other “untrue” fabulous claims. Then he was found dead, *hounded by the media for two weeks. I’m guessing it must have been pretty bad, which is why I’m surprised I missed this.
The person who started the hate campaign against him was a eugenicist cambridge professor that was kicked out for racism
BTW the piece of shit now has a new tenure in Belgium because being a card-carrying open racist means you at worst have to switch jobs and then can start a grift were you write a book about being cancelled while being a Cambridge professor while black and autistic means you get bullied until you kill yourself and then even supposedly “leftist” media handwrings about how the racist was actually kinda right and you were a victim of inclusivity taken too far.
I wish i was doing the “reductive subtweeting” here that reactionaries love to accuse me of, but this is an actual recap of events.
The guy that initiated this racist character assassination is this racist Jewish supremacist who believes in eugenics and identifies as a race realist. If you look at his wiki or cv you won’t see any evidence of training in biology at any fucking level. This guy has BA from Columbia which from my understanding could mean he took 1 or 2 biology courses. All this to point out what an absolute joke it is that a clown that doesn’t even understand biology can make any claims on supposed genetic differences, character assasinate a professor due to racial motivation and is happily propped up by the deeply unserious and seriously revolting British press that is populated by equally unimpressive people.
Also I had to edit this but there is zero fucking chance this asshole wannabe didn’t write up his own Wikipedia page
Yeah the real villain of the story is not only being ignored, but he’s also a villainous piece of shit racist
Edit: by this I mean, it’s a story unto itself how rotten this guy is
Very true. Another villain is the British media but that’s not really surprising since Mainstream media launders genocide
And it should also be noted that the media just seemed to be waiting for a chance like this and the sort of person that they are willing to go to bat for
The media is held up as defenders of free speech (a joke to everyone here for sure) but they only defend pedos and racists and genocide.
I haven’t read any of Arday’s academic work, I don’t know if it’s good, and I don’t know if it would have grown into something good or great. But unstated in all this is that all of these assholes would be similarly vulnerable if the Eye Of Sauron turned it’s gaze on them and laid bare their life for everyone to Judge.
I can imagine all of these posh assholes at these Elite Institutions just malding every time they interact with this guy. In their minds, his greatest crime was not any supposed academic misconduct, and it was certainly not the exaggerations or lies about his life story. No, it was that he was as savvy as they were and understood how and play all their stupid fucking games, and had the gumption to Fucking Go For it when he saw an opportunity for advancement. And the prize he so unfairly stole from them was… the opportunity to do sociology research. How dare he!
I feel like this is a key difference between the British and American upper class. This man was doing what most Americans do - fake it till you make it, get the bag, sigma grindset. But in Britain their upper class blue-bloods frown on that, the only way to be elite is to be born into it, and anyone who doesn’t have a perfect pedigree is made into a pariah and thrown to the wolves of the tabloid media.
Anyone who aims higher is “putting on airs” and must be cut down. The tall poppy gets the scythe.
Rest assured that there will be no consequences for the “free press”. Supporting genocide, igniting witch hunts, cultivating imperialism and racism. This so called “free press” is a tool of oppression, owned by our billionaire oppressors.
Nothing is real anymore and everyone knows it, that’s why there’s vague language like: “appear to be true” Nobody trusts anyone, nobody wants to be responsible for anything because they know if they do and make a mistake they will be blasted on the spot, just like Jason was. Everyone pretends to be a “tough guy” in this miserable shithole we’re living in.
