The Jason Arday Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think
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The Jason Arday Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think

Any society that sees any value in a delusional, narcissistic con-man like Jason Arday is doomed to fail.

Matt Walsh
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Black Londoners and other Leftists did not take to the streets in large numbers following the murder of Henry Nowak, a white college student who was butchered on the sidewalk late last year in Southampton by a foreigner, only for the police to mock him as he took his dying breaths. 

Nor did black Londoners and other Leftists hold massive demonstrations after a disabled white guy was nearly beheaded in Belfast in the middle of the road by one of the millions of barbaric, fake “asylum seekers” who have been allowed into Europe. 

And they certainly didn’t hold a single event in support of Ann Widdecombe, the elderly white conservative politician who was just brutally executed in her own home — she was hit 21 times on the head with a hammer — simply because she wanted to end the mass demographic replacement that’s been underway in the UK for many years now.

None of these horrific events, in the eyes of black British activists and other Leftists, merited any concern whatsoever. Instead, these ghouls have been biding their time, waiting for their very own “George Floyd” moment to galvanize their fellow communists. 

For years now, they’ve been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to canonize a home-grown BLM martyr — meaning, a degenerate criminal, liar, and sociopath who’s a clear net-negative for society. And with the untimely death of Jason Arday, the disgraced Cambridge professor DEI hire who lied about every aspect of his life story, while also fabricating data and plagiarizing all of his important publications, it’s clear that Leftist mobs in Britain have finally found the martyr they were waiting for.

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That’s very evident, based on the utterly deranged and psychotic display that just took place in Trafalgar Square in London on Monday, in support of Arday. This was a cult-like event that has no parallel, at least going back to 2020. The footage from this alleged “vigil” is genuinely hard to believe.

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Any society that sees any value in a delusional, narcissistic con-man like Jason Arday is doomed to fail. But that’s exactly what we saw on Monday, in London’s Trafalgar Square. Thousands of Leftists gathered — not to pray for the salvation of Jason Arday’s soul, or to reflect on how many white men have been subjected to discrimination in Britain for the benefit of incompetent black frauds like Arday, or to demand the termination of every white woman at Cambridge who hired him. 

Instead, the mob gathered to honor Arday as a BLM martyr — as a victim of systemic racism who, in their view, somehow led an honorable life. At one point, a speaker stated that Arday had been assassinated. Again, it was mass psychosis. 

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It’s truly surreal to watch. A white guy gets up there and says white people shouldn’t talk because they’re white. Then he talks anyway, and he says that white people don’t recognize the “richness” and “common humanity” of black people. 

That white speaker in that footage (who was supposedly afraid to speak) is apparently named Jolyon Maugham. He runs a Leftist organization called the “Good Law Project.” (This is an organization that’s been spearheading the push to turn Arday into a BLM martyr from the moment he died). Eventually, true to his word, he stopped speaking and turned the microphone over to brave “people of color.” And they proceeded to embarrass themselves as well, at this so-called “vigil.” 

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You’re exactly right, ma’am. You don’t belong there. The vast majority of these non-white students don’t belong at Cambridge, or any other university. And it’s not “racism” to point that out. It’s a product of the fact that Cambridge and every other university openly discriminate against white applicants and give enormous deference to non-white applicants, solely on the basis of their skin color. 

No applicant who receives any kind of benefit based on his skin color — whether he’s a student or faculty member — “belongs” at Cambridge, or anywhere else. And if these people had any shame whatsoever, they’d admit that. Instead, she pretends that she’s being transgressive by blaming “racism,” when she’s surrounded by a mob that agrees with her. No, the transgressive thing would be to say that schools like Cambridge need to start hiring based on merit. And if that means they have no black students, tough. The black students need to work harder. 

No, “racism” did not kill Jason Arday.  Anti-white racism got him the job in the first place. Anti-white racism got him a book deal and dozens of media appearances. Anti-white racism is the reason anyone knows his name. As long as we’re being “honest” and “speaking plainly,” we should start there. 

In fact, if we’re going to blame racism for Arday’s death, it would be anti-white racism that killed him. Without anti-white racism, he never would have been in any kind of prestigious position, which means he never would have been able to disgrace himself on the national stage, which means he’d probably still be alive, working as a receptionist at a dental office or something, where he could make up all the stories he wanted and everyone would just nod their heads and smile, and it would be fine. 

Here’s another sordid moment from this “vigil,” featuring one “Lord Simon Woolley, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge.” Presumably, he was also elevated to that position because of his skin color, because he seems like the very definition of mediocrity. 

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Wow, Jason sounds like a weak, whiny shell of a man. Here’s a way out, Jason: Resign, admit that you lied for your entire career, admit you fabricated data, and admit that you plagiarized. Then apologize. Be a man. Have some dignity. Beg the Lord’s forgiveness. Commit your life to raising your two children so that they don’t repeat your many, many crimes against humanity. 

Would that be glamorous? Probably not. It would involve sacrifice, hard work, and introspection — the kind of things that, according to Cambridge, Jason Arday was supposed to be good at. After all, this was a guy who overcame multiple tumors, epilepsy, masked bandits with knives, the complete inability to speak until he was 11, random pig heads on his porch, the inability to read or write until he was 18, and so on. So he’s used to taking some knocks — or so we thought. It turns out he’d much rather leave his children alone on this Earth, so that demonic DEI fraudsters can pretend he’s some kind of hero. He’s not. He’s utterly pathetic. 

And so was the parade of grotesque black activists who took the podium throughout this sordid proceeding.

“No man could’ve possibly bore this?” Really? There are men who have endured war, concentration camps, childhood abuse, horrific forms of cancer — and they’ve done so with infinitely more integrity, poise and grace than Jason Arday, who never demonstrated anything approaching integrity, poise, or grace in his entire life. 

The only thing that happened to him was that people told the truth about the scam he was running. That’s it. And we’re led to believe that he had no other choice but to kill himself. Incidentally, they also believe he had no choice but to plagiarize and lie constantly — because after all, what’s a black left-wing professor supposed to do? Come up with his own ideas? Don’t be ridiculous.

And by the way, in response to the first woman — no, the accusers were not anonymous. They put their names to the accusations, which is why you people are harassing them as well.

We haven’t seen public demonstrations this pathological, this detached from reality, since the summer of George Floyd. These are people who truly believe that if you’re not white, then you simply cannot be held responsible for your own actions. Everything you do — no matter how unethical, degrading, psychotic, animalistic, or criminal — is somehow caused by white people. You can commit violent felonies every time you get out of prison, as George Floyd did. You can fabricate every aspect of your life story and all of your work product, as Jason Arday did.  Arday even managed to abandon his children, just like George Floyd. None of it matters to these people. As long as you’re black, it’s never your fault. 

So whose fault is it? At this alleged “vigil,” the mob was pretty clear on that point. They blamed Nathan Cofnas for Arday’s death. They whipped themselves up into a frenzy, in fact. Because Cofnas wrote a Substack article that proved beyond any doubt that Arday was a fraud, the mob made it clear that he’s their enemy — and he’s not welcome in London. 

First of all, at a vigil after someone dies, you’re supposed to memorialize the person’s life. That’s the whole point. The problem for these activists is that Jason Arday’s entire life was a fabrication, and he didn’t do any actual work, either. Like George Floyd before him, Jason Arday was merely a fraudster — someone who would rather die committing fraud than live an honest life. So they can’t actually talk about his life, in any meaningful way. Instead, they have to look outwards — towards men like Nathan Cofnas. 

In fact, it’s quite telling that this was a vigil for a man who, allegedly, spent his life fighting off masked attackers with knives, and breaking world records with his endurance running skills, and evading demonic racists who leave severed animal heads on his porch, and achieving academic prominence despite being illiterate, and many other accomplishments, and yet the people memorializing him didn’t mention any of that. It’s almost as though they know it was all nonsense.

The speaker attacks Cofnas, saying he was fired from his job at Emanuel College, which is part of Cambridge, because he’s an evil white supremacist. And the mob boos and jeers in response. They don’t actually challenge the legitimacy of Cofnas’ reporting. They don’t dispute the accuracy of anything he wrote on Substack about how Arday is a fraud. Instead, they attack Cofnas’ work history to imply he’s dishonest in some way.

The truth is that Cofnas was fired as a research assistant by Emanuel College in April of 2024, but only because he wrote a blog post that — to this day — no one has refuted. In the post, Cofnas wrote a data-driven, dispassionate argument against DEI. He said that we must  “accept that talent is not distributed equally within or across groups.” 

He pointed out that, according to Harvard’s own internal data, the number of black students at Harvard would drop to less than 1% without DEI. And based on Harvard’s findings, as well as similar data from other institutions, Cofnas concluded that, without DEI, in a totally merit-driven world, the number of black professors at Harvard “would approach zero percent.” 

He also argued that black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment.” In other words, without DEI giving black candidates an artificial boost throughout their entire lives, the leaders of America’s major institutions, generally speaking, would not be black. 

You can disagree with his argument if you want to — you shouldn’t, because it’s obviously true — but no one at Emmanuel College or Cambridge was interested in disagreement. Instead, like virtually every other college, they’re interested in enforcing left-wing orthodoxy. So they got rid of Cofnas, even though several faculty members supported him on free-speech grounds. 

In every respect, this episode was shameful for Emmanuel College and Cambridge, not Cofnas. But to communists and black activists, who have committed their lives to silencing anyone who disagrees with them, Cofnas deserved what he got. And now that he’s refused to shut up and go away — now that he’s still exposing these fraudsters — they want him dead. He’s constantly getting death threats, as these psychopaths stir up a mob against him. They’re not furious that a black professor committed fraud; they’re furious that a white guy exposed it.

It’s important to highlight, as directly as possible, the sheer absurdity of the mob’s position in this particular case. And instead of showing you how Jason Arday plagiarized most of his academic work, or how he lied about pig’s heads getting left on his porch, or masked men chasing him around campus, or whatever, I’m going to do something a little unorthodox. I’m going to turn the floor over to Jason Arday himself. 

Before we get to his lecture, we’ll start with the abstract of one of Arday’s published papers, flagged by Drew Pavlou.

Here’s how it reads: “Replete with espoused discourses of equality, diversity and inclusion within public bodies is the UK, wherein lauded initiatives reward its universities’ commitments to increasing the access and positioning of ‘women’ in higher education.”

Now this is, of course, horrendous, ugly, clunky writing with all the grace of a washing machine falling down the stairs. It’s also exactly what you’d expect from a “sociology” professor, by the way. Sociology is a pseudoscience where academics just make up a bunch of gibberish and try to compensate for the lack of substance by using big, important-sounding words. Also note the hideous clashing mixture of modern bureaucratic jargon and archaic formalities like “wherein.” Another hallmark of halfwits who have nothing to say but will spend 10,000 words saying it anyway. A very reliable general rule is this: Smart people make complicated subjects seem simple. Pretentious morons make simple subjects seem complicated. Academia is entirely overrun by the latter group.

Or to put this in words that sociology professors would understand, rather than just saying that Arday’s writing is ugly, bad, and unnecessarily wordy, I’ll say that the aforementioned syntactic assemblage revealed itself to be an aesthetically deficient and stylistically ungainly construction, one whose profound paucity of substantive intellectual content left it entirely bereft of any meaningful conceptual profundity or discursive rigor. Moreover, its compositional architecture was marked by an utterly gratuitous proliferation of ornamental rhetorical flourishes and elaborations whose sole effect was to amplify an already excessive prolixity, thereby transforming what might otherwise have been a simple utterance into an exercise in wholly superfluous and baroquely inflated verbosity.

See, I can use a thesaurus too. Someone give me a PhD.

But things get even worse for Arday when you put yourself in the position of one of his students and actually listen to what he has to say. This is from one of his recent lectures, entitled “Engaging pedagogically with race and racism.” We’re going to watch some footage of the master at work, so we can judge whether or not he actually deserved to be a full professor at Cambridge (which is the most prestigious level they have). 

We’ll give the mob the benefit of the doubt — we’ll forget all about the plagiarism, the dishonesty, and the narcissism, and we’ll just listen to the man speak to see if he deserved to have the position he did.

We’ll start with the beginning of Arday’s lecture, where he discusses the sinister nature of whiteness. Now, before we go any further, you should make a mental note about the fact that this particular DEI hire (like every other DEI hire) is only capable of talking about how we need even more DEI hires. That’s the extent of Jason Arday’s contribution to academia. Your expectations were probably already pretty low, given that he was a “professor of sociology”, but the reality of this guy’s drivel is even worse than you might think. 

He never made a single original or interesting argument about anything. He just made more demands and more complaints. And the arguments don’t even make sense. Behold, the beginning of Jason Arday’s lecture — which you can watch without being a student at the highly prestigious Cambridge University, if you can imagine it.

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We’re off to a great start here. “The centrality of whiteness is all-encompassing,” he says — which seems like a contradiction because something in the “center” cannot be “all-encompassing.” By definition, if you’re in the center, then you’re not everywhere else — you’re just in the center. Centrality indicates a focal point within the larger thing. All-encompassing indicates that it is the whole thing. A thing cannot be within the larger thing and also be the larger thing at the same time. This might seem like a semantic point, but it’s a recurring theme with Jason Arday and DEI activists in general. They say things (and write things, or copy-paste things) that make no sense and are meant to sound a whole lot smarter than they really are. It’s gibberish.

Then you get to Arday’s really interesting and original take, which is that “the proliferation of dominant white European canons compromises all of our curriculum.” Now, far be it from me, a lowly podcaster with only a high school diploma, to critique the grammar and vocabulary of an esteemed Cambridge professor, but in context it seems that the word he wants here is “comprise,” not “compromise.” He seems to be trying to say that “dominant white European canons” make up — encompass — the curriculum. Which would mean “comprise,” not “compromise,” is the correct word.

And he specifically says that STEM — which is short for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — is “centered around kind of dominant white philosophies.” Of course, he never explains what he means by that, which is another recurring theme in his fake scholarship. He just throws it out there — STEM is “compromised” by “dominant white philosophies.” And we’re led to believe that this is a bad thing, because black and Asian students will struggle to “conceptualize other people that have contributed to the canon.” And somehow this will hurt them when they leave college and enter “the world of work.”

None of this makes even the slightest amount of sense, no matter how long you spend thinking about it. It sounds like he’s complaining about the fact that Europe was the birthplace of the Scientific Revolution, and that he wishes Copernicus, Bacon, Galileo, and Newton had been morbidly obese black women instead. 

But there’s really nothing we can do about that, at this point. The ship has sailed. The reality is that the people who contributed the most to the advancement of civilization in the 17th and 18th centuries, forming the basis for modern-day STEM, were white men. In fact, nearly everyone who contributed to those advancements during that time was a white man. 

The non-white male contributors were the rare exceptions. That’s an inconvenient fact for DEI activists, to be sure. It might lead people to wonder what exactly Africa has lagged so far behind. But it still doesn’t explain what Jason Arday wants to do about it.

There’s also the fact that inventions like algebra and Arabic numerals are obviously a part of mathematics education, even though white Europeans didn’t come up with them. It’s almost as if, when you’re learning about biology or calculus or the laws of thermodynamics, it doesn’t matter who “contributed to the canon.” You’re learning objective facts, where “lived experience,” political ideology, and skin color are irrelevant.  So what is he talking about, exactly? Instead of explaining himself, he moves right along to discuss another meaningless string of woke clichés. 

One thing we’ve learned is that this guy absolutely loves the word “pedagogically.” I guess I can understand that. It’s a fun word. I once used “pedagog” in Scrabble, and it was the greatest board game-related achievement of my life. Almost as impressive as running 300 miles in 3 days. But we can’t all be Jason Arday. 

Anyway, he says he’s willing to speak about issues he doesn’t have personal experience with — which is good, because his personal experiences are all fake. But he says that, when he does so, he will “declare absolute modesty.” Presumably, this is like when Michael Scott declared bankruptcy in The Office; he’ll stand in front of the lecture hall and scream, “I DECLARE ABSOLUTE MODESTY.” It’s a thoughtful gesture, I suppose, but a bit paradoxical. How does one “declare” something modestly? And how does a modest person claim “absolute” modesty? By definition, if you’re modest, the very last thing you’d do is declare yourself to be so, much less claim to be perfectly so. 

He says that, unless you have the right “lived experience,” then there is “a license to get things wrong, a license to miscommunicate, and license to ‘pick up different discourses that might not be 1000% accurate … Of course, you can’t be absolutely accurate, but you need to be able to speak to a lived experience, and understand it, if anything else.” 

I think by “license” he means “tendency.” But it’s still a completely incoherent statement, all things considered. There’s a contradiction in every other sentence. We won’t even dwell on the fact that “lived experience” is redundant. Every experience is “lived” by definition. If you didn’t live it, it’s not an experience. And if you experienced it, you must have lived it. He also says you don’t need to be absolutely accurate, but at the same time, it’s a bad thing if you’re not 1000% accurate. Well, which is it? 

And while we’re at it, why exactly do you need to have direct, firsthand experience with a particular issue in order to teach it? Wouldn’t that exclude every living person from teaching virtually every subject matter? How are you going to find a professor with “lived experience” about the Crusades, exactly? Never mind the fact that black academics like Arday are constantly going on and on about “whiteness,” despite having no “lived experience” with it.

These are questions that, if Jason Arday were an actual academic, would have some answers. He’d offer ideas that withstand some degree of scrutiny. Instead, we get word salad, again and again. 

Here’s another example from Arday’s lecture. And to understand what he’s saying, you need a quick primer on wokespeak. “BAME” means Black and Asian students. And “Tariffs” refer to test scores that UK students earn before going to college. So he’s making the point that black students have the same high grades as white students in high school, but when they get to college, the black students perform much worse — which, he states, is clearly the result of racism. 

Common sense tells you that he must be leaving out a few variables here. It doesn’t make sense, on its face, that black students would get the same grades as white students in high school and then suddenly perform much worse when they get to a university due to racism. 

For one thing, we all know that these colleges go out of their way to appease black students. So do high schools and every other kind of school.  It makes a lot more sense to conclude that university-level coursework is much more challenging compared to whatever the “tariffs” are measuring.

I’m not from the UK, obviously. I’ve never spent any amount of time there. I have no “lived experience” with it. But even with 5 seconds of research, I identified the problem. It turns out that “tariffs” can refer to exam-based tests that are academic in nature — or it can refer to vocational coursework, like classes on plumbing and heating. So a black student can have high “tariffs” (or test scores) in plumbing, while a white student has high “tariffs” in science, math, and so on. 

It wouldn’t be remotely surprising if, when these two students arrive in college, the white student outclasses the black one. That’s not racism. It’s a problem in how you’re admitting students because they’re black, even though they’re not cut out for college. And like Jason Arday, when these black students are put in an environment that’s out of their league, they quickly fall apart.

So where does this go from here? Based on that vigil and the statements of black activists in the UK — who have the support of the prime minister — we can expect a new crackdown on free speech. This is from a woman with the “Good Law Project,” which I mentioned earlier. 

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The goal here is to make it a crime in the UK to notice anything that’s inconvenient to black activists. You see, they’re allowed to lie with impunity without any government intervention. But if you tell the truth about what they’re doing, you should go to prison.

As I understand it, “Good Law Project” is a nonprofit in the UK, and they were heavily involved in spreading lies to defend Arday. So if anything, as Andy Ngo put it,  “A public inquiry is needed into the Good Law Project for misleading the public with claims that Arday’s academic research was ethical and sound.”

Will that happen? Of course not. We all saw the state of academia in the UK when Charlie Kirk went to Oxford, where he debated the president of the Oxford Union — their famous debate society.

The president, whose name was “George Abaraonye,” was some foreigner wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt, looking like he was high out of his mind. Shortly afterwards, when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, George Abaraonye celebrated the news. He wrote, “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s f***ing go.”

That’s the endgame for these degenerate black activists. And we can’t forget it. This is not merely a story about one fraudster and the white liberal women who enabled him. If you stand in the way of their ideological takeover — if you have the wrong skin color — these people want you dead. They’re not upset that Jason Arday took his own life. They’re upset that a white person like Nathan Cofnas wasn’t killed instead. 

They would’ve preferred to see Cofnas gutted like Henry Nowak on the sidewalk. And they’re infuriated that he’s still alive, while the highest-profile DEI hire in the entire country — the fraudster they expended so much energy to defend, the guy who could supposedly run 300 miles in three days — is not.

This is an unusual position for these Leftists. They’re so used to killing their political opposition that they genuinely can’t process the fact that they’ve lost one of their most prominent pieces on the chessboard. But it happened because in their quest to place a DEI hire at Cambridge, they overlooked his obvious psychosis and mental instability. 

And even now — when the evidence of their immorality and corruption is laid so bare that a blind man could see it — they’re refusing to engage in an ounce of introspection. They’d much rather resort to violence. As Jason Arday himself used to say, “Yeah, I’m chillin’ on a dirt road Laid back swervin’ like I’m George Jones // Ain’t it funny how rumors spread // Man that talk is getting old // Ya better mind your business, man, watch your mouth // Before I have to knock that loud mouth out.” 

Actually, correction — that’s Jason Aldean. My mistake. But in the spirit of the late Jason Arday, we’ll just pretend he said it. The point is, never forget these scenes in Trafalgar Square. Do not forget the lies they will tell and the atrocities they will commit to defend their bankrupt ideology, particularly now that it’s been exposed so publicly. 

I saw someone observe that it wasn’t really a “vigil” in Trafalgar Square on Monday — it was more like a last stand. It was the last gasp of an ideology that’s on the verge of defeat. And if you’re the optimistic type, that’s one way to read the sheer incoherence and depravity that was on display. 

It was a stark reminder of what these demons are capable of — and how we must commit ourselves, particularly with some very important elections coming up, to ensure that they never again hold power in our own country.

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