Jason Arday found dead today.

Crikey. Thanks. I dont know what to say to that. I can only cope with people shouting at me
Look this will be weaponised by both 'sides' and none of it will help is probably my view.

Galaxy

Thats a nice thing to say. I think!

Indeed it is - I have a fantasy GN meet up list and you’re deffo on itt -especially your position on identity politics. I need a shake up on that. But basically you sound intellectually honest along with a few others

25Avalon

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first build up. He should never have been appointed by Cambridge University who feted him as their poster boy of DEI without doing due diligence. Then it unravelled and they pulled the rug from under him. He was better off where he was before . We don’t know if this was suicide. If it was it could be that he didn’t intend the outcome and it was a cry for help, although more likely fuelled by despair. Where was he to go from here.

We don't know whether anyone at Cambridge offered some kind of MH support or stood by his side or not, do we? Wrong to assume, not. he may have turned help away from pride.

No, they made a mistake, but I would think it was the subsequent 'pile on' that affected him.

All the academics (and not just at Cambridge) who so willingly deceived themselves about his credentials - because they were enslaved by wokery - are surely the at least half responsible for this.

I am shocked and incredibly saddened.

Tuliptree

Galaxy -when I read ins of your posts I want to have an indepth discussion with you.

Did you mean that to sound like a threat Tuliptree?

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first build up. He should never have been appointed by Cambridge University who feted him as their poster boy of DEI without doing due diligence. Then it unravelled and they pulled the rug from under him. He was better off where he was before . We don’t know if this was suicide. If it was it could be that he didn’t intend the outcome and it was a cry for help, although more likely fuelled by despair. Where was he to go from here.

Aldom

Sorry to hear of a death FGT, but who is Jason Arday please?

The news and papers have been full of him - have you been away??

Thats a nice thing to say. I think!

Galaxy -when I read ins of your posts I want to have an indepth discussion with you.

The sanctimonious pile on on GN was pretty unedifying

And where do you go with that. Should people not discuss the salt path couple or actually even Caroline flack (allegations of domestic violence), I always found the narrative around Caroline flack deeply worrying but it was almost impossible to say that.

valdali

No,TT, but what is simpler, if he hadn't been placed in that position, this probably wouldn't have happened.
If there had been no thread on Gransnet, the sad outcome would likely have been the same.

That’s absolutely true but there is the cumulative effect plus a fundamental lack of caring

No,TT, but what is simpler, if he hadn't been placed in that position, this probably wouldn't have happened.
If there had been no thread on Gransnet, the sad outcome would likely have been the same.

Galaxy

I knew without a doubt the suicide would be weaponised as it was with Caroline Flack. Those who placed this man in this position hold quite a lot of responsibility.

And so do those who piled on with relish including on here, you know very well things are not so simple or unidimensional

Spot on, Delila.

greyfur16

How bizarre to lay into somebody then feign concern whem tragedy strikes.

Exactly

😭

Silvershadow, no, there really is only one issue now. A man facing unendurable public pressure has been found dead.

From what I’ve just been hearing in a lengthy interview on the BBC with Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies, there are huge question marks over the accusations of plagiarism and the motives behind them.

Such a very sad outcome.

I haven't followed this story closely but as others have said it is completely tragic that someone feels so wretched they take their own life. Sympathies to all who knew and loved him.

How bizarre to lay into somebody then feign concern whem tragedy strikes.

Poor man. I do feel very sorry for his family.

I knew without a doubt the suicide would be weaponised as it was with Caroline Flack. Those who placed this man in this position hold quite a lot of responsibility.

What’s my posts about FGT got to do with this thread? Typical