I must blame fears of rioting and burning, women with bullhorns screaming "Jim Crow!", bitter accusations of racism from MSNOW, Sharpton, Joy Reid, The View ladies, and Democrats in Congress for this tragedy. TD
" . . .there’s nothing funny about the political and cultural weaponization of race for the sake of an ideology that has largely ruined higher education and filled society with individuals and institutions willing to destroy anyone possessing the audacity to tell the truth."
"One of Seinfeld’s more poignant scenes revolved around the ambiguous pigment of Elaine’s latest boyfriend. Was he or was he not black? Jerry, Elaine, and George are pondering the question and wondering if they should be doing so. George says flatly that the discussion is not okay. Finally, when a black waitress arrives at the trio’s booth to deliver checks, all three frantically toss bills toward her in a visual demonstration of liberal guilt.
"Something similar is now transpiring in the case of Jason Arday, a Cambridge professor who recently committed suicide following exposure of his academic plagiarism and wildly fictitious life story. That story included, among other imagined hurdles and accomplishments, early autism, muteness till age eleven, illiteracy prior to age eighteen, teenage epilepsy spawned by a physical attack, a brain tumor experienced while writing his dissertation, a coma triggered by a car accident, a mini-stroke, a fractured fibula suffered on one of the thirty-five marathons that he ran in thirty days (nine of which were done with the injury), and a six-hundred mile run between London and Edinburgh accomplished in six days (later amended to twelve days). Those athletic feats were said to have raised £5.5 million for eighty charities.
"On the academic front, Arday’s plagiarism was extensive. Not only was his dissertation lifted inordinately from a thesis written six years earlier, his work was also filled with grammatical errors that even extended to its title: “An exploration of peer-mentoring among student teachers’ to inform reflective practice within the context of action research.” The dissertation whose work was stolen had a similar title with an appropriate apostrophe following the word “teachers”: “An analysis of the concept reflective practice and an investigation into the development of student teachers’ reflective practice within the context of action research.'” . . . More...
Richard Kirk is a freelance writer living in Southern California. His book Moral Illiteracy: "Who's to Say?" is also available on Kindle, as is his book Poetry with a Moral Edge.
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