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Gary's avatar

This whole sorry episode says far more about Cambridge University's management and academic decline than it does about Arday. At one time Cambridge was highly regarded. It is sad to see that regard dwindling away in the face of such poor stewardship and a once respected centre of academic excellence reduced to being the subject of jokes and popular contempt.

DenisetheCelt's avatar

Jews have been wrecking England for hundreds of years.

Mike Lynch's avatar

Jesus Christ, you Jew haters get absolute everywhere. I have seen the list of people involved with the creation of this man and there isn’t a Jewish name amongst them. Go away with your absurd nonsense please.

Julia's avatar

I was mystified by the anti Jewish comments.

I still am mystified

William kennedy's avatar

Baron cohen was one of his co workers and supporters in Cambridge actually.

Elgie's avatar

Sorry, how exactly did you extrapolate this to your absurd conclusion? Clearly you must be subject to delusions equivalent to Jason and his supporters.

Tim's avatar

Remember that the Scotti, who gave their name to Scotland, are actually an Irish tribe.

So it's a two-way street.

SRK's avatar
1dEdited

Let's not forget the Cambridge 5. And that's just the five we are permitted to know about. There were more than just 5 spies. These were merely the 5 that had to be revealed, to make it look as though Britain was serious about Soviet spy purging. Not true, a few defected to the Soviet Union, some remained in Britain, once a deal had been arranged. The universities are hotbeds of intelligence, corruption, cultural Marxism and phoney content in their university publishing.

Hugh Trevor Roper bounced around from Cambridge and Oxford, an intelligence whore who became an establishment historian. Some historian, couldn't tell that the Hitler Diaries were fake, and did the same with the Bormann instigated, vastly shoddy, Table Talks. The universities are as controlled and bent as the country"s elites, who rely on the universities to spin the tales that they then rebrand under: "Academia". Lies & lots of them, printed by the presses of OUP or CUP. The KJV also came from these compromised indoctrination centres, as mandated by the direct order of the King. He would tolerate no one undermining his power, not even the gospels. What a racket!

Bushwacked71's avatar

Legend has it, he once defeated Chuck Norris in mortal combat to earn his Blue Peter Badge.

DenisetheCelt's avatar

Fer sher! It happened!

Dances In the Ruins of My Mind's avatar

The universities are not fit for purpose. They need to be purged and their wealth and properties confiscated and deployed to more useful purpose.

Scott M's avatar

It seems he kept dreaming up more and more outlandish feats just to prove to himself how gullible the left is.

DAVID HANLON's avatar

The Milli Vanilli of academia.

Nick Barang's avatar

An excellent piece which reflects the reality of the worthless qualifications and qualities of British higher and further education. They'd give a degree to a dancing chimp if it had the money to pay for one and then promote it to the Dean's chair at Oxford.

𝕱𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖉𝖔𝖒 𝕱𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖊𝖗 ᛋᛋ's avatar

Not only a plagiarist that had to steal from a White woman, he’s also a homosexual.

DenisetheCelt's avatar

Well that explains why the executive staff are so enamored. Are you in the UK? I'm an American. FYI most negroes ARE on the down-lo.

DenisetheCelt's avatar

Unreal. This is truly tragic. I wrote a couple of snarky comments on Baron Cohen's twitter page. Of COURSE jews are circling the wagons in defense of this fantasist negro - but all the Whites involved are an absolute disgrace. What's wrong with us?

Erik Vynckier's avatar

Obviously in a pseudo-science like sociology.

DAVID HANLON's avatar

Believe it or not Sociology can be scientific if you throw away all the Marxism and just stick to the numbers.

David Hulme's avatar

There are no words…

Charkate's avatar

A fantasist is held up to be a shining example of achievement! Impossible achievements, that is, as described, yet believed, in the way that ideologies are 'believed' and held up to be true, against material reality. It's not possible for a non communicative, non verbal person to become suddenly, overnight, literate, thoughtul, structures in place in the mind, with the ability to put into words all that Arday claims and to shoot up to a doctorate level in thinking and to produce the required work.

I'm a well-educated educator, first Literature and then English as a Second Language, and finally, assisting learners who are illiterate in their first language to achieve some ability in their new, English. I know that the brain does not suddenly form the same structures and connections as would a child who is raised literate, and develops in that world. It's just not possible. What connections they have are more associative rather than deductive, as the scholar Walter J. Ong and his sources have have pointed out. The learner has to really, truly work at a very slow pace to understand text, how text works, it's purposes, and forms. But maybe I'm one of the naysayers who finds it impossible to run and run and run on a broken leg, many times over and to absorb the doctorate level of literacy and composition. But then, it is clear that Arday cheats.

Margaret Roberts's avatar

And what’s even worse is that Cambridge believes him! 🤯

DenisetheCelt's avatar

I doubt that anyone involved did or did not believe. The Diversity Puritans ONLY care about their Diversity Delusions.

Nick's avatar

What an outstanding story, it has everything, and could be made into a brilliant comedy movie encapsulating the farce of UK wokery.

If such a film is made surely the leading role has to go to Jussie Smollet

DenisetheCelt's avatar

He would never be aware of the satire.

Rob Goldsack's avatar

I feel somewhat sorry for Jason Arday. Everyone is targeting him when he would appear to have just "played the game". I think the vast majority of people have, at some time or another taken advantage of a situation. Let's not forget there is a human being at the centre of this and show some humanity. Indeed I feel you make this point Mark when you say:

"This story is really about the fact that one particular silly man with a big mouth and an overactive imagination ended up as a Cambridge University Professor with a number of academic book deals. And the reason he ended up in that position is simple: it wasn’t because of his incredible achievements; it was because of his ethnic background and the sob story he sold to a panel who were no doubt overwhelmingly made up of white liberals."

For me the bigger and better story is the way institutions reacted to the revelations and prefer lying over truth. Therein lies the tell.

To pick just three from this essay:

1) Liverpool John Moore's University. They didn't say "we made allowances", which if the background story is true would be more palatable. Although it would be more palatable, it still opens the institution up to criticism about why it doesn't do that for everyone and the very high likelihood is, this isn't what they did. So they took the route of "our process failed under short staffing"...oh yea?? The question then arises, so who many other PhD graduates are suspect then? All Liverpool John Mores University has proved is they are liars and prepared to throw anyone else under the bus to protect what they did.

2) Cambridge University. Again, instead of "we made allowances" they blame everyone else for letting him have these positions and awards. Shame on Cambridge University. I bet anyone who has met him, who has any integrity at all in his alleged academic fields would immediately identify he is not what he claims. Cambridge University has clearly lied and thrown others under the bus.

3) Routledge publishing. They are clearly sellers of fiction and should be prosecuted under the trades description act for fraud. They prefer to lie and blame their process than tell the truth.

The final laugh lies on Sir Simon Baron Cohen allegedly some "cognitive neuroscientist" who can't identify that his employer has lied in what they say about Jason Arday. No he prefers the cognitive trick of distraction.

Ultimately what is fascinating from this essay is not one of the people speaking in defence of what their institution did, or indeed anyone defending Jason Arday (NB Sir Simon Baron Cohen, who surely has met him?) Has said "Look, when you meet him, Jason really is a great guy" or words to that effect.

There is a Dutch saying 'reputation arrives on foot and leaves on horseback'. I think everyone involved in this saga has lost their reputation. Tragically people are so inured to lies that they will just carry on as if nothing has happened. If you have integrity you should boycott all of these institutions or companies and you should call out their lies.

So Mark, I strongly disagree. This isn't about some "belief" system for "diversity" its much simpler than that it is lying rather than telling the truth. It is about deception.

DenisetheCelt's avatar

Cohen is a JEW. Jews are Nation Wreckers. I’m sure her LOVES the idea that Cambridge has been suckered into promoting this Dindu. And NEVER EVER EVER feel “sorry” for a n0g. Do you think tarantula-head DIDN’T know the scam her was pulling?

Tim's avatar
Aug 5Edited

Little-known at the present, but due to become more so in the future, is that Professor Arday was actually born female, and had to endure a childhood during which he was abused and called a queer by his schoolfriends - and all this on the back of being an orphan, in fact, whose parents died in Auschwitz.

Shame on those who pile on and dare to question his narrative.

In him, Britain has produced what is clearly one of the seminal figures of the 21st century.

Even if for all the wrong reasons.

Tim's avatar
Aug 6Edited

He’s gone.

Daily Telegraph has the scoop.

Now for all those who supported his fraud.

Nada's avatar

As someone who has witnessed first hand the destructive impact of DEI policies in the corporate world, I think this goes way beyond Cambridge University and there are many more stories like this that will eventually come out at companies and institutions all over the country.

The levels of incompetence I have seen from "diverse" colleagues parachuted into high positions who allegedly have high level qualifications and work experience is staggering. It made me wonder how much of what is written on their CV's was genuine, and whether anyone actually bothered to verify their claims.

AK's avatar

There is a certain way people tell the truth or supposed truth. You do that by mixing facts and fiction. Then you drop the name of a Jew and then those that have convinced themselves that a black genius only exists in dreamland creep out from under the rocks.

So I checked who is Mark Collet and I suddenly understood. I just think this situation could have triggered an audit of all senior academics, especially in those universities mentioned. But that is not what the writer suggests. He is more interested in debunking the myth of a black genius and his Jewish defender than the restoration of academic integrity.

I will not refute this story because I do not have material facts to do so. I am just interested in having the same scrutiny applied across the board. I am interested in having ALL fakes exposed irrespective of race. That will assure everyone that the intent is not to target a single individual who happens to be black.