Jason Arday dead

[ThisWiseRobin]

Just putting this out there, but just heared.A sad end to a whole sorry mess.

How so?

Such bombastic rhetoric.

Yes a little but rather marvellous at the same time

I’m just happy that there is a lot of common sense amongst many posters on this thread - those who clearly see through the performative liberal nonsense.

Thanks for your input. It will help us moving forwards with the way you have presented your argument in a robust manner.

Agree agree agree. It's a relief to read. Some of the posts feel like palate cleansers after reading some of the fake performative sht posted on here.

How many people on this thread could even name another professor at Cambridge University let alone have such strong views about their research, personal qualities and now death?
As I said: batshit.

I would say to those of you who plan to use JA as a teaching aid for plagiarism avoidance, it may be wise to hold your horses for a while to see how things pan out, and how JA and his life & death are viewed by the establishment in the future, before you plough ahead. If the response from the left on Twitter is anything to go by, and they have their way, your students are going to be mighty confused why you are using the death of a blameless person murdered by white supremacy as a warning against plagiarism.

Don't judge everyone by your own minimal standards.

If? There were.

I’ve no idea of their background, and neither - I assume - have you. The point is he had a story he was willing to tell, and that was attractive to an institution who wanted to be market itself as widely as possible.

'If the response from the left on Twitter is anything to go by, and they have their way, your students are going to be mighty confused why you are using the death of a blameless person murdered by white supremacy as a warning against plagiarism.'

Ha ha, is that right? Talking about batshit...

@Queenncat honestly it’s madness on there

Is that your conclusion because it appears you’re not getting your own way or viewpoint.

Who was killed by white supremacy?

I’m firmly of the belief many of this performative liberalism is for social media’s benefit because I can not fathom people are so obnoxiously ignorant and dangerous in equal measure whilst believing to be morally superior to those of a different viewpoint in real life, oh wait…

Not at all. I find all suicide sad. I am baffled that so many people have so many strong opinions about some random academic.

Oh i really do.

Most people conveyed sadness at the passing of this young man, I think we all collectively agree there.

Were you baffled at people having such strong opinions on Maya Forstater, whom, by all accounts was a random to many.

It is the principle and what is at stake here that has many people having strong opinions.

I know many would like people to be sheeple with no opinions and accept whatever nonsense is peddled but some do not wish to comply.

I’m so sorry to hear that. Please accept my sincere apologies for my comment. This is a very upsetting subject but I should not have let my feelings cause me to speak out of turn.

People on Twitter are saying that JA was killed by white supremacy.

Must make it true then.

I’m just glad Cambridge did their due diligence and verified that they had promoted the best person for the job.

Couldn’t possibly have been deceitful behaviour being overlooked so that Cambridge could tick some boxes whilst leaving someone woefully inadequate for the job vulnerable to being exposed.

'funny that those black academics especially in the US with a wealth of knowledge tend to be right leaning and conservative.'- assuming you mean people like Thomas Sowell and Glenn Loury? (though arguably Loury is a bit more centrist) Both see high calibre to me..

I'd question though whether liberal black academics are unintelligent, (though arguably academia as a whole in the US is disintegrating). John mcWhorter for one is excellent imo and liberal (albeit he self-describes as a 'cranky' one)

Is he cranky because he is smeared as right leaning but wants everyone to know he is liberal? LOL

Sowell had a point.

I'd caution about including Malcolm X in the same bracket as that though. He accurately perceived that at least some white liberals were using black people as a pawn (arguably to some extent we're all pawns to politicians) but he died in 1964.

The civil rights movements was at its height then and many liberals took genuine political and safety risks (in the case of activists on the ground) for it, that wasn't simply 'performative nonsense'. Arguably it's unsurprising X was negative given his well-known Nation of Islam views on white people (which in some ways aren't that different from CRT), although these did later mellow.

He's certainly cranky about woke stuff, has done several good books on it. I think by temperament he's liberal, he just doesn't like woke/90s PC extremism.