Jason Ardays Cambridge grift ends but the post-BLM reckoning has just begun

So he’s gone: Jason Arday, Cambridge University’s scandal-ridden professor, has resigned.The “rock-star academic” famous for his long hair and tall tales has fallen on his sword following media exposés of his plagiarized Ph.D.dissertation and his fabulist claims of racial oppression.Yet while the disgraced dreadlocked prof might be shuffling off into ignominy, this disaster is far from over.We need to ask why so many prestigious institutions — not only Cambridge but the entirety of English academia — fell for this man’s grift.The real story here is less Arday’s BS than the fact that so many ostensibly clever people were sucked in by it — the inevitable consequence of the intellectual class’ craven cave to the cult of BLM.Arday was what came of the Western elites’ sacrifice of excellence at the altar of white guilt.And it will take more than his resignation to undo the society-wrecking legacy of the BLM derangement.The Arday scandal really is mad. It started with newspaper reports that he had plagiarized around 100 passages in his Ph.D.

dissertation.Then questions were asked — finally — about some of the wacky claims he’s made in recent years. He once said he had run 600 miles in six days, which would rank him among humanity’s most gifted endurance runners.He claims to have overcome non-verbal autism and a brain tumor before soaring to the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship.He yapped about suffering insane levels of persecution, from being confronted by a racist nutter with a knife to intercepting a pig’s head addressed to his parents’ home.Of course not one sliver of evidence was found for these self-pitying yarns.Even now he’s carrying on with the victim shtick, bleating in his resignation letter about being the target of an “unrelenting” crusade of vilification.Give it up, pal.The race card no longer trumps the truth.However will Cambridge cope without Arday’s academic insights, which included claiming that...