The Jason Arday scandal

He even took the piss out of Stephen Hawking. I think most of us know at least one of his type. Butter wouldn't melt when the camera's on him.

It’s quite the type. This week, all my friends have been texting ‘this should have been x’ and not all about the same person either. I’d love it if someone brought all those guys down.

You think everything happens in a vacuum?

no. Literally the most cursory glance around your own personal environment would demonstrate that. Cause..dun dun DUN .. effect

He’s to blame at a personal level. But this has become an event at a societal level, and after that point things are much less clear.

how his personal failure/fraud is framed and by whom is probably more important than anything he’s actually done.

@thestudio ”He’s to blame at a personal level. But this has become an event at a societal level, and after that point things are much less clear.”

It’s a self inflicted spectacle, which is going to run and run, because Bullshit Jason is so conceited he’s written a fucking book, and hasn’t pulled it!!!!
You couldn’t make it up, except, he has!

In his book, I hear he explains how he invented the internet, and taught Bear Grylls how to survive in the wild.

He didn’t get sacked either? He resigned.

I agree. In fact I think it's racist to make allowances for it

..yes references to old white men seem be perfectly acceptable.

There seems to be very little awareness on this thread of contemporary discourse around racism and definitions.

Surely the most egregious incident is the police investigating a journalist for doing his job. We know they go after people for tweets. Now they're going after journalists.
Jack Grove: I was reported to police over the Jason Arday case. I was just doing my job https://share.google/ARKO9ngumvmN98OLS

I think having different standards because of someone's race ( or sex) is inherently patronising. It assumes a lower ability,

Completely agree. Also there is an ignorance of the structural nature of racism. Everything is seen in terms of individuals on one hand, gross generalisations on the other.

There are a lot of people who must have also enabled his behaviour. A lot of people are to blame. What a mess.

Did none of the students who he lectured to not realise that something was amiss?

I read that one complained and was ignored and criticised as being racist.

Maybe put it in the fiction section as a good Christmas laugh?

Racism is not the theme
here, academic cheating and fabricating tall stories is.

To add in intelligent comment to the polarised discussion maybe? Because one recognises that the history of the slave trade is not as simplistic as many seem to think doesn't make one 'defensive', just better informed.

There were multiple complaints made about the supervision he provided. As a PP mentioned the students were dismissed as racists. I believe some students are asking for their grades to be re-examined and there is debate on "law tube" about whether former students have grounds for suing the university.

Are you returning @Ilikesundays as your thread will soon be full.

Racism has been the theme for many posters on this thread. The ones who use the abhorrent expression 'playing the race card', for example.

Arday introduced race when he wanted to silence people getting closer to his lies.

Two things can be true at once. He can be a victim of racism but also guilty of lying about his achievements.

Would this be possible in a STEM subject? Surely University professors should actually have to understand what they are talking about in order to get and keep their job?

If he felt he was a victim of racism, there are correct channels to go through. The police shouldn't even have even involved unless a racial offence had been committed. Another balls up from that direction.

There are some very illuminating comments on Reddit from some of his past students
Claiming his lectures mainly consisted of him talking about his thoughts about racism
With little substance to back him up
If anyone complained he accused them of being racist