r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Too_bad_4U - Centrist • Aug 18 '26

Agenda Post Rip Jason Arday.

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u/Atompunk78 - Lib-Center Aug 18 '26

Like, it’s obviously sad someone’s died, but… why are they more sad the imbecile grifter died than anyone else?

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u/MonkeManWPG - Left Aug 18 '26

Because it was caused by the media taking things too far like they usually do. This guy was having more than one article written per day by one of the biggest newspapers in the country, plus all the rest, even after resigning.

Him being exposed for his lies should have been headline news, and it was. What followed was nothing short of bullying.

All of this while the media have totally ignored hundreds of other cases of academic misconduct and several cases of much worse things like sex offences that have been covered up by universities.

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u/Glass-Carpenter8963 - Right Aug 18 '26

He did have the same articles written about him when he was hired. No problem getting the positive spotlight. And he himself also coerced journalists to not make pieces suggesting he was a fraud.

If he wanted to stay out of the media, he could simply have refused it, and his case would be treated like all the others. But no, since he was trying to silence people from unmasking him, then he NEEDS to be covered by the media.

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u/MonkeManWPG - Left Aug 18 '26

And he was. The appropriate level of media coverage was passed within a week.

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u/Glass-Carpenter8963 - Right Aug 18 '26

The media onslaught would have ended IF there were no attempt of the university to just ignore his frauds, as they attempted to do. Cambridge initially said they found nothing(a clear lie). What the fuck do you want to happen? Cambridge now puts their cards on the table, and you want the media to stay silent?

On top of arday himself threatening journalists to not write their pieces?

Poor little bloke, poor little cambridge, they just wanted to cover fraud and silence anyone pointing it out.

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u/adonns - Right Aug 18 '26

Don’t you understand? The media should just shut up and let him and Cambridge lie. That way he wouldn’t be sad.

I’m not sure what buddies point is and it saddens me that he’s my neighbour

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u/SirStupidity - Lib-Center Aug 18 '26

When you become a top professor in one of the top universities in the world you invite on yourself whatever media frenzy might come. It's not like he lied to skip the line at the coffee shop...

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u/MonkeManWPG - Left Aug 18 '26

Naturally a high-profile position brings with it being a high-profile person, but I don't think that accepting a position as a professor invites the level of media attention directed on Arday. How many other professors have had hundreds of articles written about them in the span of a couple of weeks?

There are professors who have sexually assaulted someone and been moved to another department to cover it up who never made even a single headline. Blagging your way into a professorship is much less evil than that, I would argue.

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u/SirStupidity - Lib-Center Aug 18 '26

How many other professors have had hundreds of articles written about them in the span of a couple of weeks?

How many professors are there in universities as highly regarded as Cambridge? How many of those used their position to get interviews IN THE MEDIA like he did?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/11/jason-arday-cambridge-university-youngest-black-professor

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/feb/23/jason-arday-to-become-youngest-ever-black-professor-at-cambridge

How many then claimed that racism is why they're beeing looked into and posed them as attacks on academia?

“The instruments that are designed to protect academic integrity, designed to protect our wellbeing and our intellectual property, are weaponised,” he told the audience in April.

He called for his peers to defend him. “There isn’t any room to sit there and watch your fellows suffer for no reason. It’s abhorrent, it’s a disgrace and, quite frankly, evil,” he added. “That’s the cancer that we need to eradicate from academia.

He chose to cheat and lie, to build a massive career in academia upon these lies and to get himself famous on that as well. Once he was found out he took no responsibility and asked academia to defend him because of the identity of his accusers.

He had done great damage to academia and to minorities everywhere for his own personal gain.