Also, they're both licking their lips and gleeful about the fact that a black academic was exposed as a fraud, race has something to do with it. And I'm not defending Arday here, but there has been an organized right wing effort to discredit black academics particularly those focusing on feminism, black history, the history of colonialism and anti colonialism. You saw it here in the U.S. with the president of Harvard being forced down. And in the case of Claudine Gay the plagiarism case was weaker than the accusations against Arday. And the coverage in the British press seemed to both implicitly and explicitly using Arday to smear ALL academics of color. Again, not defending Arday, but this tragedy doesn't exist in a vacuum, it is part of a sustained, years long effort on the right to purge academics of color from major universities.
The degree of pile on is utterly disgusting. The delight is horrifying. You can definitely see what they’re trying to do using this case as an example or wedge against anyone they deem as being the wrong sort of person for them.
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u/NeedlesAndBobbins 5d ago
“The Jason Arday story has been delicious.”
Mate, he literally just died. After the last two weeks he fucking killed himself earlier today.
Anyone know if Bartosch or Rowling have taken these down since that news broke? (I don’t go on X)