Britain’s GEORGE FLOYD located!
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I can remember back in May 2020 when the Left, heavily aided and abetted by their associates in the media, turned George Floyd, a fentanyl-dealing career criminal, into a latter-day martyr. As role models went, this was an atrocious choice. I remember thinking at the time that something like this could never happen in the UK, but I am not so sure anymore.
The death by suicide of Professor Jason Arday now appears to be being manipulated by the usual elements to turn the plagiarist professor into a martyr — the victim of “racism”. There was a remarkable rally in Trafalgar Square attended by thousands, with scenes like this.
I think we need to get a few things straight.
Arday chose to kill himself. Nobody forced him to go down this route. Yes, it may have been out of desperation, and we can even feel sorry for him, BUT he still carries responsibility for that decision. Some may even feel it was an act of cowardice, although we do not know all the details at this point.
Arday killed Arday.
Furthermore, Arday was far from being the victim of “racism”. In fact, I would argue that his career thrived in part because of his skin colour. The DEI doors were flung wide open for him, ushering him into a very lucrative academic career. The truth is that liberal academics appear to have chosen to overlook the alleged plagiarism and the fantasies surrounding some of his claims, while simultaneously celebrating him because of his race. So it is a bit rich to then turn around and cry “racism” when scrutiny finally arrives.
The awful truth, as I see it, is that Professor Arday only got as far as he did because woke academia bowed down before the symbolism surrounding him because of his race. From what I have read of his academic work, much of it was cringeworthy, if not almost entirely unintelligible. All of which tells me that he was over-promoted and that his deceits were overlooked.
He was not the victim of racism. He was, if anything, the beneficiary of race-based indulgence.
Now THAT is wrong, but it is not what the assembled masses were demanding in Trafalgar Square.
No, they were there to play the racism card in the hope that the media would go along with it and ensure that Arday’s suicide is gradually recast as a consequence of racism and of the criticism directed at him.
That is how martyrs are manufactured. We see it and we have to call it out.
The inconvenient facts about the plagiarism allegations, the questionable claims surrounding his academic career and the institutions that elevated him will quietly disappear into the background. In their place we will be offered a much simpler story: a successful black professor hounded to his death by racists.
I don’t buy a word of it.
A tragic death does not retrospectively erase legitimate questions about someone’s conduct. Nor does suicide automatically transform criticism into persecution. We can have sympathy for Jason Arday as a human being, and particularly for those who loved him, without surrendering our critical faculties.
If we allow somebody’s death to be used as a shield against proper scrutiny, truth itself becomes secondary to the creation of a politically useful narrative. We must not let the race hustlers out there pervert the truth just because it is inconvenient for them.
I say SHAME on those who are manipulating one tragedy to create another.
STOP RIGHT THERE!
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