Even after his (Prof Jason Arday) death, the stupidity has continued….

1. He was a troubled soul..: erm… NO he wasn’t! he was doing just fine before the pile on!
2. I have no interest in taking sides or judging Jason Arday. Last time I checked, the University of Cambridge is in the private sector. Jason Arday was not elected by the voting public. He doesn’t owe us any truths. He can lie in his private life as often as he wants and about anything he wants
3. How dare he lie to us? Yet, we’ve had Prime Ministers who have lied to us. We’ve had all the Covid lies from all sorts of publicly funded officials; some are still in publicly funded jobs right now. We’ve had Brexit and how leaving the EU will hand us power and we won’t have illegal migration, we will have £millions spare to fund the NHS etc.Hugely significant lies that impact lives, have been told over the years. Yet, a university professor fibbing, is such a big, big no no!???
4. Jason Arday is being judged by people who are only hearing the word ‘plagiarism’ for the very first time. Many of them still do not really understand what it means. Ed Sheeran and the biggest musicians out there, are regularly accused and taken to court by smaller musicians who claim they copied their songs. It happens all the time. Oftentimes, it’s just inadvertent. Musicians listen to all sorts of music and sometimes may not be careful enough not to copy bits. Academia is the same; researchers get their facts in from all over. Yes, they need to take care to credit their sources. But errors are probably made all the time. Did Jason Arday cut & paste everything in his thesis and work? Unlikely. He gave lectures, speeches etc. Academia should have stood up for him and he could have just edited out whatever people say he plagiarised and if after removing those, his work boils down to nothing, then, fine, you can sack him. It should not have been any more than that
5. We say we’re a ‘rules based society’. Well, let’s apply those rules! If one of Jason Arday’s past student sued him because they claim he destroyed their lives as he shouldn’t have lectured them due to him being under-qualified, and he gets to court and lies about being mute as a kid or being on seven-up and those claims are proven to be false, then he can face legal consequences. Jeffery Archer was jailed for perjury I believe. If Archer had not told his lies in court, if he had said what he said in his back garden, he could tell as many lies as he pleased and he would be ok. If Arday was a fantasist who lied about all sorts, he has not lied in court and he can carry on telling his lies! If they found that his PhD was all cut & paste of someone else’s work, then they can say he isn’t qualified to be a professor and his employer can fire him. None of that seemed to be the case, so, he was crucified for being a DEI or is it EDI hire, who apparently shouldn’t have got a job that he did so well for so many years. Ok.
6. Society should be honest enough to accept that what happened to him was wholly unacceptable, so that we can try to prevent it happening again. The whole world is one big lie after the other. We lie to each other and to ourselves daily! The temperature shot through the roof this summer, with homes burning and trains derailing; yet, each of us who can afford to board a flight and head off on holiday will do so, telling ourselves that we have donated enough to carbon footprint initiatives or that we deserve our holiday. Even though we each know, that the massive impact caused by our flights, is a major contributing factor. Do we want the aviation industry to collapse? Of course not; it employs thousands of people. We get our goods, etc, via that sector. There is also not enough research done (almost like Brexit) to fully understand what we really do need to do. But we (well, those with at least half a brain) all know, that we are hypocrites. And those are not even the worst lies that we tell each other daily or that we tell to others. We all attend job interviews all the time and you see people lie about their current salary, what they did in past jobs, how relevant their experience is, etc. We’ve just seen the President of FIFA try to tell the world that selling off 20% to investors is a great thing for football. We all tell ourselves one warring country is bad and the other is good. We see children killed in wars daily and we turn the page of our newspapers. We lie about our health, we lie about our feelings towards others: daily! If people disliked Jason Arday because he was some cheeky black guy who thought he was something special, JUST ACCEPT that was the case. He is now dead. No need to carry on lying to yourselves. None of us is the custodian on Cambridge University! Cambridge having 1 x professor whom we say isn’t qualified to be there, is not going to bring Cambridge down on its knees is it? I am sure they have had professors who were murderers, rapists, drink-drivers etc., most people probably have never heard of the sociology department at Cambridge!!! Jeez!!!!
7. If slave trade was brought back today, will people say no? I doubt it. We will explain why it’s necessary and we’ll say it provides the opportunity to educate a few more people who wouldn’t have had access to education. As we whip them and brand them with hot iron, we will say it’s just necessary to keep them focused on their learning. People talk about ‘defunding the police’, well, if we removed policemen & women from today’s society, how do you think we will fare? I think people will be shocked by just how lawless, reckless and wilfully/willingly cruel human beings can be.
   
8. we must find a way, somehow, to get society to pull back from the brink, when we begin to crucify others as we did with Jason Arday. No reason, no excuse, no logic suffices. And it is not the press or journalists. It is ALL of us! People should have spoken up, to explain that what Jason Arday is accused of, is not noteworthy! If proven, fine, he should face the music for is and perhaps lose his job. It is not something that should cost him his life!!!! And it isn’t about him being trouble or too feeble to have taken his own life, we should not be testing people’s limits. Especially for something so bloody trivial! Even if he copied other people’s work, lied about everything in his life, so what? as listed above, we tell greater, more impacting lies to each other daily! Even folk who think they never lie, the entire world is one big lie and we are all in it, living that lie. As such, we do not have the moral high ground to stand on, in judging Jason Arday or anyone else. That is the truth, for those intelligent enough to understand and accept it.

It is a completely unnecessary waste of human life! Poor chap