Ep. 1823 - Cambridge’s DEI Superstar Was A Serial Liar, Plagiarist & Hate Hoaxer

**Matt Walsh** (0:00)
Jason Arday was a serial liar, thug, narcissist, criminal, and plagiarist who quickly rose to the ranks of full professor at Cambridge, one of the most prestigious and sought after jobs in all of academia.
Arday was awarded his job as a professor of sociology of education, not because of his talent or scholarship, but because he was a black activist. He told liberal white women what they wanted to hear. Arday fabricated elaborate, obviously fraudulent narratives about how racists had oppressed him throughout his life. He also concocted bizarre stories about how masked men with knives were chasing him around campus, how he supposedly discovered a pig's head on the porch of his family home. Despite clear evidence that Arday was delusional, the leaders of Cambridge, mostly white liberal women, of course, fell in love with him on the spot. They passed over thousands of other qualified, much more qualified applicants, many of them white, in order to sell a story to the public about the virtues of DEI. Cambridge promoted Arday as a shiny example of a strong black man who had overcome tremendous adversity, claimed he couldn't even read or write until he was 18 years old, and became the youngest black professor in the university's history. And then, when it all came crashing down, when Arday was exposed as the complete fraud he was, he apparently took his own life. Faced with some actual adversity for once in his life, Arday immediately opted for the coward's way out. He left his two children behind, rather than face the consequences of his own lifelong deception. And through it all, Cambridge and many other race hustlers, including the UK's new prime minister, have stood by Arday. Many mainstream media outlets in this country have run sympathetic stories on him as well, where they suggest that his critics are responsible for his death. Jason Arday chose to lie and plagiarize, and then chose to end his life, apparently. And the only people, only person not responsible for any of Jason Arday's disastrous decisions, we are told, is Jason Arday himself.
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**SPEAKER_3** (2:08)
The death of high-profile academic Jason Arday has intensified scrutiny of the media coverage of him beforehand. Jason Arday, a sociologist who was once celebrated as the youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University, was found dead on Friday. That's just nine days after he resigned over allegations of plagiarism in his academic work. His family said in a statement released by his publisher, the campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, as he had been subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse since taking the job. The British prime minister called his death a tragedy on so many levels.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:42)
A really sad, sad and sorry state of affairs. And I think we just all today think of Jason, his contribution and his family and friends.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:50)
Some British media stories call the 41 year old Professor plagiarism and a poster boy for diversity. He acknowledged some mistakes in his work, he said were partly due to a lack of supervision, but denied plagiarism. Questions surrounding his athletic and fundraising achievements also dominated media coverage. As the story about him continued to gain traction, Arday said in a letter posted online that he resigned because he, quote, reached the limits of what any person should reasonably be expected to endure. Arday was found unresponsive in South London on Friday and was later pronounced dead at the scene. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police told CNN. Following his death, Cambridge University said in a statement, We are desperately saddened to hear this tragic news.
Our heartfelt sympathies go to Jason Arday's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.

**Matt Walsh** (3:38)
So he didn't plagiarize. They were just mistakes in his work that were due to lack of supervision. He didn't lift whole passages from other authors on purpose. It was an accident. He tripped, fell, and, you know, copy and pasted other people's work without attribution. It happens. It happens to the best of us. CNN also told us that questions were raised about Arday's other alleged achievements, but they didn't go any further into that. This is drive-by news coverage that's designed to convince people that Arday was smeared by white supremacists, when in reality, he deserved everything that happened to it. But the true story of Arday's fall is much bigger than the sordid collapse of one phony academic at a failing school in the UK. This is also a story about why whenever they seek to find the most qualified black candidates for high-level jobs, whether they're looking for a justice on the Supreme Court, or a president of Harvard University, or a White House press secretary, or a vice president of the United States, or a full professor at Cambridge, White liberals inevitably select imbeciles who are as morally stunted as they are intellectually stunted, and obviously unqualified for the job. Now, you would think with unlimited resources to find the most qualified black candidates available, they'd come up with someone worthwhile. You'd think that might happen at least occasionally, but it's not happening, and we need to talk about why. We also need to discuss the backlash against Nathan Coughness, a former fellow at Cambridge, who lost his job because he told the truth about anti-white discrimination in universities all over the world. Coughness, with the help of other academics and outlets, most notably Retraction Watch, exposed Arday's fraud over the summer, and for that, he has been subjected to a smear campaign by Cambridge University, as well as various left-wing academics and activists. So the very thing they accuse Coughness of provoking against Arday, an unfair, vengeful, politically-motivated smear campaign, is precisely, of course, what they're doing to him. In fact, it's not just Coughness that they're going after. The left is demonizing anyone who reports the truth about Arday, including mainstream outlets like The Telegraph, The Guardian, even The New York Times.