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Comical case of Cambridge U.’s fibbing prof tests academia’s deep DEI delusions
The New York Post ^ | 08/04/2026 | Daniel McCarthy

Posted on 08/04/2026 7:10:01 PM PDT by thegagline

If The Onion or the Babylon Bee wanted to spoof the absurdity of DEI — the woke ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” — they couldn’t have invented a character as unbelievable as Jason Arday.

*** Born in 1985, in 2023 he became the youngest black man ever to hold a professorship at Cambridge University.

Naturally, he had to overcome great adversity to do so. *** because Arday, the son of a Ghanaian immigrant to London, isn’t just black, he’s autistic and was nonverbal until the age of 11, according to the glowing media profiles he’s received. And he’s epileptic, yet that didn’t stop him from “running 30 marathons in just 35 days,” ***

A miraculous individual like Arday might never even have been admitted as a student at Cambridge, let alone made “professor of the sociology of education,” if not for the spirit of affirmative action.

Yet now he’s facing accusations of plagiarism because more than 100 passages in his dissertation appear to be lifted from another academic’s work. ***

He insists he’s a victim of racism and insufficient DEI***“Arday did not dispute the allegations of plagiarism, but defended himself by arguing that he had not received adequate supervision during his PhD given his autism and learning disabilities.”

Even the left-wing Guardian newspaper found Arday a mite less than truthful, when he claimed a campaign to get him fired from Cambridge included a man threatening him with a knife (the school’s video system showed no man and no knife) and a severed pig’s head sent anonymously to his parents (London butchers and police had no records to support Arday’s claim).

When the paper asked Arday about his tale after trying to fact-check it, he said, “To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me.” ***

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacks; dei; favoritism; lies

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1 posted on 08/04/2026 7:10:01 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

His girlfriend is Morgan Fairchild.


2 posted on 08/04/2026 7:18:01 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: thegagline

Eliza Doolittle.


3 posted on 08/04/2026 7:21:00 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: thegagline

When I encounter person(s) who say:

“To be honest with you”

“To be perfectly honest”

“With all due respect”

I say as little as possible, and get the frak away from them.


4 posted on 08/04/2026 7:27:26 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: thegagline

“To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me.” **


5 posted on 08/04/2026 7:29:11 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: thegagline

Cambridge Professor


6 posted on 08/04/2026 7:53:48 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

7 posted on 08/04/2026 8:54:16 PM PDT by xp38
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