theprestige
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The guy was born in London, raised in Clapham, and educated at Heathbrook Primary School in Nine Elms.
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Vixen
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Arday was 'selectively mute' not 100% non-verbal.
You believe everything you read in the papers. Next time, ask yourself what might be the motivation behind it. We saw today how papers like the TIMES and TELEGRAPH - the same ones that ran character assassination campaigns against Arday - have been caught red-handed publsihing fake US-backed polls falsely claiming Starmer was unpopular and lying that Reform limited company party were 'overwhelmingly' in the lead. Why do people believe this stuff so easily? Maybe it's because they want to believe it or they have no idea how persuasion works.
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W.D.Clinger
Philosopher
My birth certificate shows the race of both parents.
That was long ago. This is the sort of thing that varies by state and era.
As best I can tell, the state of Texas continues to record the race of both parents, but it looks as though a distinction might be drawn between the Certificate of Birth that must be registered with the state and something called the legal birth record:
From 1994 to present color or race is not present on the legal birth record.
I was born in Fort Worth, which is in Tarrant County. When I was growing up, open racism was rampant in Fort Worth (as it was in the rest of Texas). Racism is less open now, and has become more difficult to distinguish from political partisanship, with which it is now highly correlated. (Until the mid-sixties, the Democratic party was the more racist party. That has changed.)
Consider, for example, the 29% reduction in polling places that Tarrant County commissioners approved on Tuesday by a party-line vote of 3-2. Fort Worth is one of the most populous cities in the United States that still votes Republican, with 52% voting for Trump in 2024. On the other hand, its demographics are changing. The city was mostly white into the mid-1990s, but is now majority-minority, with 37% white. Having fielded an extraordinarily weak Senate candidate this year, and with a governor whose rabid advocacy (and recent flip-flop) with respect to construction of large data centers has made the governor's and lieutenant governor's races competitive, the Republicans are pulling out all the stops to suppress the vote in areas with large concentrations of minority, Democratic, and college student voters. (Those three demographics are correlated.)
That's just an example of how racism has become hard to separate from cultural and political divisions.
I know nothing about the UK, which I can easily believe is far less racist than the US, which (as we have seen
) has made it much easier to discuss the life and death of Jason Arday without mentioning race.angrysoba
Philosophile
Ah, yes. I remember reading about him, also in Stuart Ritchie’s book Science Fictions. I seem to remember one of his patients was a Russian ballerina.
Yes, it is amazing how many people are suddenly interested in academic fraud and extremely, indignant about Arday, having never apparently cared much about the subject before.
smartcooky
Penultimate Amazing
This is not what he originally claimed... he walked back to this AFTER the evidence came out... so caught in a lie, then revised the claim, then claimed it is what he has claiming all along. Same with the claim of running 600 miles in 6 days - when the truth came out, he walked it back to 600 miles in 12 days, and said that was always his claim, so again, caught in a lie, then revised the claim, then claimed it is what he has claiming all along.
You should be familiar with this technique....
Yada yada yada. The same claims have been debunked in those bastions of left wing politics, The Guardian and The New York Times.
The Guardian and The New York Times both interviewed childhood acquaintances and school friends to scrutinize these timelines, revealing mixed recollections and inconsistencies regarding the severity and duration of his developmental delay. The BBC have remained suspiciously silent about those claims - one could almost think they know they can't take a position on the side they desperately want to take, because it will be loser, and they'll be on a hiding to nothing!
When he lost those three, you could pretty much stick a fork in him - he was done.
Rolfe
Adult human female
Prof Harris was writing a book, the third in a series, this one covering the academic discipline Arday worked in. He wasn't initially aware of Arday at all and the book was almost finished when a colleague drew Arday to his attention. Prof Harris then recognised that it would be a very serious omission if he failed to cover Arday's work in the book. He therefore got hold of his published papers (not his thesis as far as I know) and started to read through them to get a handle on the details of his research interests.
Prof Harris said that it was this exercise, reading a number of papers back to back, that caused him to recognise the anomalies, the discrepancies and the duplication. For example the same words were attributed to different interview subjects in different papers. Puzzled (and suspicious, although he didn't say that to Arday), he sent a polite email to Arday asking for his comments on the points he'd noticed. Arday replied with a rude and aggressive email accusing him of racism, and threatening to call the cops on him if he contacted him again. Prof Harris did reply, briefly, and Arday made a police complaint against him alleging harassment.
That's a debatable point. I had never heard of him, but I don't watch TV or listen to Radio 4, as a rule. Prof Harris had never heard of him. But he wasn't short of a public profile. Edited (or presented?) the Today programme once. He loved publicity so long as it was adulatory. This wasn't some minor teaching post in a red-brick polytechnic that he held, it was one of the most prestigious professional chairs at Cambridge University. You have heard of Cambridge University, I take it? You're aware of its status? Most people are.
Pixel42
Schrödinger's cat
You'd heard of him, because you brought him up in the Woody Brown thread long before this story broke. You didn't seem to think he was "some minor professor" then, you made a big deal of him.
Helen
Implicitly explicit
Not att all. Your reading comprehension seems to work most of the time, so I wonder why you are so eager to misrepresent what I have written. I think academic fraud is a great deal, but I wonder why a case where the damage is far more serious, where people died as a result of such fraud, did not get such worldwide attention. And why large segments of society, here and elsewhere, never before concerned about academia, are suddenly shouting about it.
So yet again, because it seems that you completely disregard what I am actually saying, I am not in any way condoning Arday's fraud, or any academic fraud, no matter who has committed it.
Matthew Best
Penultimate Amazing
An extract from Singal-Minded:
Arday, for years: I’m cognitively disabled, and this has brought all sorts of challenges. My college application was filled out for me by my girlfriend and I got a 9% on my first exam there. Even years later I had massive difficulties performing basic academic tasks — in grad school I was reading at about the same level as my then-3-year-old daughter. At least some of these problems still plague me, as I can’t understand what’s said to me at work 90% of the time. (Yes, he said all of this — see above and here.)
Journalists: It appears Arday was not really qualified for his position and that his race may have been a factor in his hiring. He also seems to have lied about a lot of stuff, sometimes in truly audacious fashion.
Nature and a million other slacktivists piling onto journalists who covered this controversy and in some cases circulating enemies lists of them: How dare you make this about Jason Arday’s race or intellectual ability?
Arday, for years: I’m cognitively disabled, and this has brought all sorts of challenges. My college application was filled out for me by my girlfriend and I got a 9% on my first exam there. Even years later I had massive difficulties performing basic academic tasks — in grad school I was reading at about the same level as my then-3-year-old daughter. At least some of these problems still plague me, as I can’t understand what’s said to me at work 90% of the time. (Yes, he said all of this — see above and here.)
Journalists: It appears Arday was not really qualified for his position and that his race may have been a factor in his hiring. He also seems to have lied about a lot of stuff, sometimes in truly audacious fashion.
Nature and a million other slacktivists piling onto journalists who covered this controversy and in some cases circulating enemies lists of them: How dare you make this about Jason Arday’s race or intellectual ability?
smartcooky
Penultimate Amazing
Changing the facts and the recollections to suit the currently preferred narrative. Surely you expected this!?
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SpuriusMaximus
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Heh. Now it turns out his resignation letter may have been written by AI.
ETA: come to think of it, since he seemed that unable to have an original thought and just copied stuff (from people or from AI), did some AI tell him to kill himself?
ETA: come to think of it, since he seemed that unable to have an original thought and just copied stuff (from people or from AI), did some AI tell him to kill himself?
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Vixen,
Cofnas himself was apparently the victim of a pile on by students, teachers and administrators at Cambridge before this (his later involvement in the Arday stuff). Due to attention given to him in a student newspaper over something he had written in a personal blog post and then student protests and student complaints against him over it, Cambridge's Emmanuel College terminated his position with them claiming that his views were not in line with their DEI (EDI) objectives!
Cofnas himself was thus "canceled" from his position due to a woke pile on!
The University of Cambridge itself, however, later determined that what he expressed did not run afoul of the law nor of their own policies which they said were in place to uphold and encourage free speech.
Statement on Disciplinary Investigation (Dr Cofnas)
Statement on Disciplinary Investigation (Dr Cofnas)
The University of Cambridge itself thus "cleared" Cofnas even though its Emmanuel College had already gotten away with terminating his position!
Last I saw, Cofnas was still in a legal battle with them, for he had already lost a court case against Emmanuel College too but apparently before the University of Cambridge itself had made its determination.
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Vixen
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Clapham was, or is, home to one of the UK's (London's?) largest railway junctions. I would guess that in common with another famous 'railway' town, Swindon, there exists long rows of terraced houses built to house railwaymen and their families, modest, not at all unpleasant, with back gardens, yet rather back-to-back with very limited parking spaces due to the narrow streets. (My Swindon friends, all though in decently paid middle class jobs had hardly anywhere to park, with everyone needing residents parking permits.) So, I imagine Arday's parents, being from Ghana, and children of African descent doing statistically quite well at school, likely had aspirations for the young Jason albeit the area they were in was likely rather run down and depressed in parts with affluent areas conjoining it, not dissimilar to places like Islington, in North London. Willesden Junction, another railway town, is particularly grim, full of factories and rundown council estates.
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Vixen
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Of course the UK is race conscious but it never had segregation so racism was never legalised. The main preoccupation is class (also an indicator of wealth), so the question 'data collectors' would ask at school was, 'What is your father's occupation?' an innocent-sounding question but the real aim was to discover your 'class'. Race was unmentionable but once a year, a school inspector would come around and ask, 'Hands up all those not born in this country?' Everybody knew what it was a euphemism for. But OTOH, unlike in the USA, segregation based on race in the Armed Forces is/was forbidden. The major distinction again being class, the officers versus the privates. The only time it's formally allowed is in denominational schools or care homes.My birth certificate shows the race of both parents.
That was long ago. This is the sort of thing that varies by state and era.
As best I can tell, the state of Texas continues to record the race of both parents, but it looks as though a distinction might be drawn between the Certificate of Birth that must be registered with the state and something called the legal birth record:
From 1994 to present color or race is not present on the legal birth record.
I was born in Fort Worth, which is in Tarrant County. When I was growing up, open racism was rampant in Fort Worth (as it was in the rest of Texas). Racism is less open now, and has become more difficult to distinguish from political partisanship, with which it is now highly correlated. (Until the mid-sixties, the Democratic party was the more racist party. That has changed.)
Consider, for example, the 29% reduction in polling places that Tarrant County commissioners approved on Tuesday by a party-line vote of 3-2. Fort Worth is one of the most populous cities in the United States that still votes Republican, with 52% voting for Trump in 2024. On the other hand, its demographics are changing. The city was mostly white into the mid-1990s, but is now majority-minority, with 37% white. Having fielded an extraordinarily weak Senate candidate this year, and with a governor whose rabid advocacy (and recent flip-flop) with respect to construction of large data centers has made the governor's and lieutenant governor's races competitive, the Republicans are pulling out all the stops to suppress the vote in areas with large concentrations of minority, Democratic, and college student voters. (Those three demographics are correlated.)
That's just an example of how racism has become hard to separate from cultural and political divisions.
I know nothing about the UK, which I can easily believe is far less racist than the US, which (as we have seen
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Vixen
Penultimate Amazing
Are you aware Arday was appointed by Cambridge in 2023?
Vixen
Penultimate Amazing
A memoir is exactly that, a person's own personal recollections and can include or exclude whatever they like. It is not like a biography whereby the author is expected to cross check facts via letters and public records. We've all read memoirs that are little more than self-serving apologistics for terrible behaviour (for example, Jeffrey Archer or Christine Keeler [or even the dreadful AK] ).
As usual Vixen's post starts with a mistake and runs off a post on that mistake.
Clapham isn't home to "to one of the UK's (London's?) largest railway junctions." she is confusing Clapham Junction with Clapham - they are separate areas, Clapham Junction is in Battersea, Clapham is in Lambeth. Clapham Junction is home to Clapham Junction Railway Station which is the UK’s busiest interchange station. Historically Clapham was an upmarket residential area, Clapham Junction (and Battersea) was an industrial area. The gentrification of Battersea really only started in the 1990s. (Declare an interest - I lived in Battersea in a flat that literally overlooked the railway station, I lived in Battersea not Clapham.)
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Vixen
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I only heard of him during the Woody Brown debate because he came up on my Instagram (goodness knows how Instagram was 'reading' my posts here!) via some kind algorithm. I think it was because I 'liked' a cute instagram of an Australian guy joking aorund with his autistic brother. It was the first I'd heard of him. Being a believer in academic excellence - I didn't agree with the abolition of the tripartite system - I was a bit sceptical of his claim he had never read until age 18. But he clearly got his foot on the ladder and once you are in, it doesn't matter what grades you got before. I was defendng him in that thread against the idea that autism meant lack of intelligence, although by the same coin, autism can also account for perceived so-called 'learning difficulties'.
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