Comical case of Cambridge U.s fibbing prof tests academias deep DEI delusions

If The Onion or the Babylon Bee wanted to spoof the absurdity of DEI — the woke ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” — they couldn’t have invented a character as unbelievable as Jason Arday.But Arday is very real: Born in 1985, in 2023 he became the youngest black man ever to hold a professorship at Cambridge University.Naturally, he had to overcome great adversity to do so.Really great adversity — because Arday, the son of a Ghanaian immigrant to London, isn’t just black, he’s autistic and was nonverbal until the age of 11, according to the glowing media profiles he’s received. And he’s epileptic, yet that didn’t stop him from “running 30 marathons in just 35 days,” as reported in Britain’s Independent.Indeed, he’s a sports hero: The University of Bath even posted a blog on the “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination” in 2021 presenting Arday’s claim that as a child he’d played both soccer and snooker (similar to billiards) at a professional level.Though last week, the university amended the transcript of Arday’s conversation to say he’d only played soccer “semi professionally” and was “really good” but “not good enough to be professional” at snooker.   But never mind: He has so many other claims to fame that correcting that little misstatement takes very little away.After all, Arday was also a star of the most famous documentary in British history, Michael Apted’s “Seven Up” series, which starting in 1964 followed the same group of subjects from childhood to old age at seven-year intervals.Starting, that is, 21 years before the professor was born.No, the series didn’t add new participants over time — its whole point was to track the very same people who took part in the first installment.Truly, thanks to DEI anything is possible.Arday now says that when he made the claim in 2022 (“I was part of a program, actually, which ..

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