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Say, Didja Happen to Notice the Total Implosion of the Academic World and DEI Industry?
PJ Media ^ | 7 August 2026 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 08/07/2026 4:23:12 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Jason Arday is no longer a professor at Britain’s prestigious Cambridge University, but that august institution is going to need some time to recover from the damage he has done. Indeed, the entire academic world, and the DEI industry as well, are reeling from Arday’s sudden and shocking unmasking and downfall. They had so very much invested in him as a living symbol of the success of their analysis, and of the correctness of their worldview, that now they are due for some serious soul-searching and reevaluation of their entire approach.

Will they engage in that thorough and honest self-examination that they so desperately need? Nah. They’ll just double down. In fact, they’re already doing so.

Up until his resignation under fire on Thursday, Jason Arday was a professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge, becoming the youngest black professor in the university's history. He resigned after evidence of his massive plagiarism and otherwise embarrassingly skimpy academic record circulated so widely as to be impossible to ignore, but this is much, much more than just a plagiarism scandal.

The question of how and why Jason Arday was hired at Cambridge, and at several other universities before that, raises so many important questions about the academic establishment that in a sane world, the credibility of that establishment would be destroyed forever. Alas, we do not live in a sane world.

That’s clear from the fact that Jason Arday is a completely ridiculous figure, as he himself indirectly acknowledged when he asked: “Wouldn’t it be the most ridiculous story ever told, if the boy who couldn’t read and write at 18 gets a PhD before he’s 30?” Well, yes, it would, and yet Jason Arday told it, and academics eagerly believed him.

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KEYWORDS: cambridge; jasonarday; plagiarism

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1 posted on 08/07/2026 4:23:12 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

The easiest people to fool are white liberal elite academics... when they’re buttered up they don’t feel manipulated or played for fools - they feel “finally someone sees how brilliant we are”. Yeah, they’ll double down...


2 posted on 08/07/2026 4:36:40 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Illegals are NOT immigrants anymore than thieves are house guests")
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To: All

Now for the good news:

The entire academic world, and the DEI industry, are reeling from
Jason Arday’s sudden and shocking downfall, unmasked as a plagiarist.

They had so very much invested in the black dude’s DEI hiring as a “living symbol” of their “progressive tolerance and compassion,” preening w/ success at their evaluation, reinforcing the “correctness” of their worldview.

They are now due for some serious soul-searching and reevaluation of their progressive approach.

Not to mention well-earned worldwide revulsion for being
a bunch of trusting dupes ensnared by a practiced con artist.


3 posted on 08/07/2026 4:40:02 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: Rummyfan

They are faking their “total implosion.” These people are chameleons and will hide like cancer.


4 posted on 08/07/2026 4:40:32 PM PDT by oldplayer (Anyon)
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To: Rummyfan
Britain’s prestigious Cambridge University

Britain’s formerly prestigious Cambridge University

FTFY.

5 posted on 08/07/2026 4:49:06 PM PDT by Alvin Diogenes
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To: GOPJ

Thats because the intellectuals have a strange capacity to hold two opposite ideals in their palm and meld them into something consistent in their minds.


6 posted on 08/07/2026 4:50:09 PM PDT by Jonty30 (When I go to the kitchen to find food, I get disappointed because all I find are ingredients.)
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To: Jonty30
It sounds Hegelian. Thesis + antithesis = synthesis.

Maybe Tufts can offer him a professorship to atone for their sacking of that brilliant black scholar recently.

7 posted on 08/07/2026 4:55:31 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: oldplayer

A bunch of DEI dupes hired Jason Arday as a professor of Sociology of Education
at Cambridge, becoming the youngest black professor in the university’s history.

A seasoned conman, Arday knew exactly which buttons to push to
get the progressive morons to hire him for the prestigious perch.

Arday quickly skipped town as evidence of his massive plagiarism
and skimpy (non-existent?) academic record surfaced.

Evidence so incriminating it was impossible to ignore.....
except by a bunch of believing progressive dupes.

But this is much, much more than just a plagiarism scandal......
hold on to your seats, it’s going to get worse, much worse.


8 posted on 08/07/2026 4:56:11 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: Liz

But this is much, much more than just a plagiarism scandal......
hold on to your seats, it’s going to get worse, much worse.


Well, if there’s any truth to BBC television dramas, there’s a question of who he’s been sleeping with, too.


9 posted on 08/07/2026 5:31:34 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative

Wow, even a sex angle.......the scandal itself reeks of “diversity.”


10 posted on 08/07/2026 5:35:48 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: Rummyfan

The thing is an obvious faggot....weird looking as hell.


11 posted on 08/07/2026 6:11:04 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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The primary allegations against Arday include:

Plagiarism: An independent analysis of his 2015 PhD thesis found approximately
188 sentences that were identical or nearly identical to a 2009 thesis by another student.

Biographical Fabrication: He faced heavy scrutiny over
claims and details regarding his personal life and background.

CV Embellishment: Questions were raised regarding the validity
of his claimed affiliations with prestigious universities and honorary appointments.

Arday resigned hours after Cambridge announced it was officially investigating his academic record.


12 posted on 08/07/2026 6:31:59 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: GOPJ

White liberals trip over themselves to find the magic negro they can show off like a circus attraction.


13 posted on 08/07/2026 6:45:09 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Liz
Arday knew exactly which buttons to push to get the progressive morons to hire him

The American black has had nearly a century to learn to exploit the stupid White liberal for the grift.

14 posted on 08/07/2026 6:53:58 PM PDT by LouAvul (They're doing it again because you didn't hang them last time.)
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To: LouAvul

American blacks have had nearly a century to learn
to exploit the stupid White liberal for the grift.


Some important lessons from slavery?


15 posted on 08/07/2026 7:03:22 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

16 posted on 08/07/2026 7:10:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: Rummyfan; hellinahandcart

Didn’t know who he was. Thank you.


17 posted on 08/07/2026 8:12:22 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Rummyfan
now they are due for some serious soul-searching and reevaluation of their entire approach.

We are talking about liberals here, so…


18 posted on 08/07/2026 9:28:03 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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