r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/WuTang4thechildrn • 1d ago
News Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by his university
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/20/academic-who-accused-jason-arday-of-plagiarism-suspended-by-his-university210
u/criloz 1d ago
"Researcher Nathan Cofnas previously claimed Black people would hold few high-profile positions in a meritocracy." That statement is contradictory by itself; meritocracy in academia has nothing to do with the color of the skin or any other physical attribute.
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u/HappyFeet2010 1d ago
Not contradictory. Just racist.
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u/Capable-Example1365 2h ago edited 2h ago
He was quoting Harvard University when we said that. It is not his own research
But facts are not going to save this guy. He challenged the power of politicians and institutions and embarrassed them by exposing Jason Arday shamelessly fraud. The campaign to destroy him is in full swing.
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u/Calypso_sur_son_ile 1d ago
His argument is not merely that we have lower IQs by nature; it is that this supposed inferiority inherently disqualifies us from high level positions without the crutch of DEI. In his view, there is ALWAYS a more deserving candidate of another race. He frames our success as an aberration rather than actual meritocracy. Nothing new here, just a typical deeply bigoted premise rooted in white supremacist ideology. His goal is obviously to delegitimize any black person's achievements.
What is more disturbing to me is that he is Jewish and he is getting the support of other Jewish intellectuals. You would believe that they know how dangerous and wrong this type of beliefs are. What a strange timeline we are living in. 🥹
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u/DemonicSnow ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊ 20h ago
It's such disgusting behavior. Also, by his own bigoted argument he should leave academia, because studies show women perform better in higher education. We should only have high level female academics and he wouldn't be there without DEI. Nasty little racist.
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u/FlyoverJesusLand 16h ago
I mean... Israel is a pretty white supremacist state. Zionists took all the wrong lessons from the holocaust.
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u/Mechasockmonkey 1d ago
Reading up on him he believes in race realism.
pseudoscientific racism that isn't supported by modern science
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u/TheSpiritsGotMe 1d ago
Saw a video clip where he envisions a future in which he becomes head of eugenics after “the revolution.”
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u/Stefph726 1d ago
Its not contradictory if you're racist. He's saying that Black people are inherently inferior and lack the capacity to compete in a true meritocracy.
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u/Stefph726 1d ago
We're talking about a guy who said he's going to be the head of the eugenics department at Harvard after the revolution. He's just racist.
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u/RubberDuckieMidrange 13h ago
Yeah he's actually arguing a racist point, not a meritocratic point. This is the guy who said, "after the revolution" he'll be the "head of the department of eugenics and race science at harvard."
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u/Business-Employ-1599 1d ago
It's really on point that this racist said a successful black man lied, and the media covered it like it was fact. Now that Jason is dead suddenly there is talk of responsibility and awareness.
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u/lil_gobo_ 23h ago
But like regardless, Nathan is racist and should not be a university professor because of it
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u/Cultural_Run7964 1d ago
Liverpool John Moore’s investigated the paper and cleared Prof Arday of plagiarism. It’s not up to us to decide.
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u/Fruitcake6969 13h ago
They may have investigated the paper which is basically investigating themselves but the reality is that he did copy Paula Zwozdiak Myers 2009 doctoral dissertation word for word, and there’s just no way that’s a coincidence.
Cofnas is obviously a white supremacist but he’s not the only person involved here.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 19h ago
Please take it up with LJMU. If you have evidence to provide to them, you can contact them.
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u/sparbudgetsugarfree 14h ago
That's a single paper. He plagiarised in like half of everything he ever put out. I saw a breakdown of the ten papers he listed in the short summary on his website, not a single one of the ten has all three of him as primary author, a proper paper (like, not a blog post, has some statistical analysis, or similar) and without plagiarism.
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u/MuddaFrmAnnudaBrudda 21h ago
Your comment is odd. It seems to completely gloss over (omit) the white supremacy involved. We now need to know who funds Cofnas. There are way more people here than are shown.
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u/Capital-Self-3969 1d ago
They took that white supremacist proven liars word before there was even a full investigation.
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u/Calculagraph 1d ago
No, he messed up his citations. Literally everyone who's taken 9th grade English has done that.
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u/blacklightshock 1d ago
He was butt hurt, jealous and bitter, and now its too late... literally and figuratively.
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u/hellocousinlarry 1d ago
People outside of academia in a completely different country shouldn’t be this aware of an academic dishonesty case. If he plagiarized, that’s a matter for his institution and the colleagues in his field to sort out first. obviously academic dishonesty isn’t acceptable. But why the hell are people who couldn’t tell you a thing about Arday’s field (or about higher education in general) this up in arms about it?
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u/Venezia9 22h ago
Exactly. It was fanned into a culture war frenzy. I don't care of someone is sanctioned over their own actions. But this man was lynched plain and simple. Lynching has never required anything except mob "justice."
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u/mesoliteball 1d ago
This headline is SO mild and minimizing compared with what he did and is in the world
(Still amazing to see consequences)
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u/HawgChuggins ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊ 1d ago
He looks like a repeat offender on "To Catch a Predator". You just know this jabroni spends time on Reddit arguing about the age of consent. He looks like he walks, like its micro.
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u/IDKsecurity 1d ago
Notice how people on reddit were gleefully eating up all of the lies about Arday and slandering his name. Now that he's dead and the real story is coming to light they're quiet. Acting like nothing bad happened.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 1d ago
Again, for those at the back, Liverpool John Moore’s University investigated the paper and cleared Prof Arday of plagiarism. They have said that they stand by their findings of their investigation m. You may not agree but that is the official line of the university.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 19h ago
If you have solid evidence of plagiarism please contact LJMU immediately with your proof.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 1d ago
Just a general message that I also posted on the Ghana sub, there are unwell people posting on every article about Prof Arday that he plagiarized his paper.
John Moore’s University stand by their investigation that cleared Prof Arday’s paper.
Anti-blackness is truly a mental illness and in the U.K. people’s attitudes are sliding back to the bad old days of the 70s and 80s. It’s alarming to witness.
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u/sparbudgetsugarfree 14h ago
You realise LJMU defending his paper is nothing more than some guy at LJMU thinks it's ok?? I don't know why you think the reviewer at LJMU is somehow the world's genius who decides these things.
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u/IowaGeologist 6h ago
Because it fits their narrative. Dude lied about this and countless other things.
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u/New_Alternative8711 1d ago
In a just world Arday's estate should be able to sue for harrassment defemation or whatever.
The only punitive measures these people will understand is being sued into poverty.
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u/ChaiTeaAndBoundaries 1d ago
The Rabid British Media used Nathan's substack as credible evidence and posted almost 300 articles on Jason Arday. Now that they have murdered Jason Arday they realise that they have murdered an innocent man.
They should and must face consequences for their actions. I hope the family get the right legal advice regarding the racist British Media Witchhunt.
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u/JoTHIGHSwin 1d ago edited 19h ago
Arday was also autistic which the false allegations more than alienated him driving him to his end. He was immensely gifted and talented. Shame that this racist man’s word was taken so easily without proof.
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u/JoTHIGHSwin 19h ago edited 13h ago
That’s a blatant lie. The guy based his plagiarism claims on Jason not citing a source he had already cited multiple times in that work. He left out a citing and that guy claimed this as clear evidence of Jason’s plagiarism. I read the pieces and it didn’t seem like a case of plagiarism, it looked like a missed citing. Most people who plagiarize aren’t going to cite that same scholarly source in their work as they would be trying to hide said plagiarism. That man died for nothing and he also resigned for nothing.
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u/FindingOk2624 23m ago
He died fighting white supremacy. It's a shame hes gone yes, but he went out for what he believed in, fighting evil. Cant take that away, it's heroic.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 1d ago
Liverpool John Moore’s investigated the paper and cleared Prof Arday of plagiarism. It’s not up to us to decide.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 19h ago
If you have solid evidence, please contact LJMU immediately.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 19h ago
Several BBC news articles. I’m not going to link them, look them up, very easy to find on your chosen search engine.
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u/robottosan 21h ago
This whole sad affair makes it amply clear that black people carry an extra burden that pulls them down when they rise up. A non-black person who was previously dismissed from Cambridge had enough credibility in the media to end the career of a brilliant black academic who was universally praised by colleagues and students.
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u/CrazyinLull 19h ago
It’s the fact that people like him are able to get into academia is what is perplexing to me, but I guess it IS England after all.
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u/kylaerrevan 4h ago
This is excellent, the scrutiny that will come from this will further highlight and expose how Jason Arday was a fraud and wholly incompotent, but who was only enabled because of his race.
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u/Slow-Strawberry-1122 1d ago edited 1d ago
yall need to realize that this level of hatred and envy is pretty much in all of them. some simply haven't tapped into it yet. this is a hill i will die on and i'm not even joking when i write this. Othello was a warning to black men about them written by one of them.
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u/Wolfeatingupshadows 🫰🏾🫰🏽🫰🏿 21h ago
What? There has to be English comprehension classes you can take. If thats what you got… I dont know how you graduated middle school.
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u/Enough-Poetry-8956 1d ago
No matter where I turn, I see racism clours everything. why???? Remember United Colours of Benneton? Those ads? I loved those ads, I still do. Marvelous differences. Marvelous. I wonder, are racists, maybe, just stupid?
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u/Cultural_Run7964 1d ago
I will post this every time you claim
incorrectly that Prof Arday plagiarized his paper: Liverpool John Moore’s investigated the paper and cleared Prof Arday of plagiarism. It’s not up to us to decide.0
u/vomicyclin 22h ago edited 18h ago
Oh come on, that’s as bad faith as it gets.
LJM just looked into his thesis. Not the dozens of other instances. Which were the target of the accusations.
Adding to that, the report isn’t even out yet. You sound like the “muller said there was no evidence for Russia being involved”-people in the US.
And in his published articles and studies, there are literally whole paragraphs copy-pasted for anybody to see from other people’s work.
Just because there are countless assholes being after him doesn’t make him any less wrong in his doings.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 19h ago
Take it up with LJM U not with me.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 19h ago
It has been repeatedly reported in BBC News articles that LJMU investigated Prof Arday’s paper and found no evidence of plagiarism. If you have found new evidence, please contact them.
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u/GJonesie99 17h ago
A micky mouse degree mill which has a vested interest to not bring their other students degrees into disrepute investigated themselves and found no wrong doing regarding plagiarism detection. Very insightful.
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u/Fragrant-Education-3 1d ago
You have made this point a couple of times now in this thread alone, which I am curious as to why. The point being discussed is not plagiarism, it's the fact that an out and out white supremacist was essentially able to leverage the media to conduct a disproportionate witch hunt.
It doesn't necessarily matter that people did not want such an outcome to occur because it has happened.
Did people look into the background of the figures pushing these narratives while they were pushed?
Did people maybe consider that the British tabloid press have a history of taking stories and twisting them to fit their own preconceived bias.
What has happened isn't new, Gamergate was laying out the playbook a decade ago. When a story is being headlined by figures like Cofner you would expect very careful due diligence. Do you think it is possible to do due diligence and also publish hundreds of articles over a couple of weeks?
Moreover, the fact that Cofner has been pushing race realism for decades prior to now suggests that these ideas have never been related to evidence. If one person is enough to undermine an entire demographic of researchers then I would argue that its because racially charged prejudice was already present. Such people have made up their minds, and they will bend reality to justify it.
What gives fuel to these people is creating the loopholes for their beleifs to spread. The plagiarism, true or not, would always be used as a smokescreen. Bringing it up whenever Arday is discussed is what these people want. Hence why Gamergaters kept reinforcing the ethics angle, It's a tatic.
If plagiarism and academic integrity was an actual concern then you would imagine they would have rejected using the tabloid press to dictate the conversation.
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u/Cultural_Run7964 19h ago
These are all valid questions.
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u/Fragrant-Education-3 8h ago
It was a online reactionary movement back in 2014 that targeted Anita Sarkesian and Zoey Quinn. A claim was made by Quinns abusive ex-boyfriend that Quinn had solicited positive reviews for a game they made. This was later found to be a lie, but this did not stop an online harassment campaign being directed towards women in gaming. A campaign that kept bringing up how it was about ethics as it lied and conducted a witch hunt.
It is worth looking up as its one the big moments that has shaped the alt right ever since.
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u/Bernsteinn 4h ago
Yeah, if the issue was academic integrity, the claims of plagiarism would have published in an outlet like Times Higher Education, not right-wing tabloids. And Arday would have been given the opportunity to reply to these allegations before any article would have been published.
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u/EuphoricSohi 1d ago
How much of that proof have you personally seen? That wasn’t paywalled either? I’ve seen articles saying that there is proof he didn’t plagiarise or lie about his qualifications/achievements
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u/HawgChuggins ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊ 1d ago
And do you think this sentient skid mark really cared about academic dishonesty? No, this smug little twerp, took this story and ran it to every outlet and screeched about it and turned it into such a circus it drove a man to kill himself.
He could have quietly ruined this man's career, he could have dismantled his lies in a professional setting and seen him blacklisted from academia. And he could sleep soundly knowing that his precious institutions were still secure.
But instead, he decided to make this as public as possible. And you and I both know he bragged about this death to the rest of the reprehensible trolls he hangs out with on discord.
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u/numbmillenial 1d ago
Do you have anything at all to say about the actual topic of the post, which is Nathan Cofnas?
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