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Adam Zivo: Jason Arday affair exposed the moral rot of progressives 

By indulging him, they made a mockery of academic and professional standards, let alone their own intelligence

Former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday — who until recently was lauded as an anti-racist prodigy —  died by his own hand last week after being exposed as a plagiarist and pathological fraud. His story should be remembered as a cautionary tale of how radical diversity initiatives can corrupt academia, yet some progressives are spinning him as a martyr and prosecuting a witch hunt against anyone who helped expose his lies.

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Arday emerged as a niche celebrity in 2023, when, at age 37, he became the youngest-ever Black professor appointed at Cambridge University. As an academic, his work fixated on popular social justice topics  — such as “whiteness” and “decolonization” — which he tackled by regurgitating fashionable jargon and incoherently calling everything “racist.”

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Progressive white academics, in an apparent effort to appease their own racial guilt, heaped unearned praise upon this charlatan, as did university administrators. Media outlets showered him with adulatory coverage, often emphasizing his extraordinary life story.

Arday claimed that, thanks to his autism, he only learned to speak when he was 11 years old and could not read or write until age 18. Despite these self-reported developmental delays,........

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