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| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Kobojunkie: 1:15am On Aug 17 |
Eniitankorede:There are other black Ph.Ds in that same school. If race was the issue as you would very much like for us to believe, why were they not singled out alongside this man? If they were scrutinized in much the same way as this man, why was he the only one among all the black professors at the school who had so many skeletons in his closet? It is literally on you to establish that the supposed witch hunt was racially motivated. 😒😒 |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by obstead200(m): 3:42am On Aug 17 |
DoWhatThouWilt:How come this man read my mind? I was just responding exactly same thing to someone on Facebook about this issue. prof Jason would have enjoyed a quiet and fulfilled life As an academic of he had just stayed out of the limelight |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by obstead200(m): 3:43am On Aug 17 |
DoWhatThouWilt:SPOT ON I wrote same thing about this issue on Facebook just hours ago. Are u sure u did not copy what I wrote? |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Kobojunkie: 3:44am On Aug 17 |
obstead200:Na! His students were already on Reddit complaining from over a year ago! if he had kept to himself, it would still have eventually happened. 😒😒 |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by obstead200(m): 3:53am On Aug 17 |
Kobojunkie:I do not believe that a university like Cambridge can hand out tenure to a minority like Jason Arday without thorough scrutiny of his credentials. I stopped believing Reddit, twitter and quora a long time ago. Those spaces are full of highly bigoted, bitter and racist individuals |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Kobojunkie: 4:01am On Aug 17 |
obstead200:. As it turns out, Cambridge may have just done exactly that, as that would partly explain why the school refused to investigate when complaints first started coming in against the Arday guy. 😒 2. I don't believe any of those sites either, but that doesn't mean the complaints posted on them were not based on reality. I watched one of Arday's lecture videos and left understanding the comments made on that thread, as well as a recent article supposedly written from an interview with a former student of his. 😒 3. If you think that way of them, then you should know the people on there are mostly those from the far-left liberal side of things. 😂😂😂 |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Gerrard59(m): 4:41am On Aug 17*. Modified: 5:02am On Aug 17 |
Ibime:Thank you for this list. So the dude was not innocent. He lied and exxagerrated most aspects of his life. So why are online lots whining? I guess this is one of the ills of living in a region/country that judges and rewards people based on their skin colour. Everything is assessed through the lens of race. Black professors at universities in East Asia are highly respected because there is nothing like lovey-dovey here. If you get it, it means you merited it. Good luck to Ndi lovey-dovey. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Judolisco(m): 5:51am On Aug 17 |
The way they ran ads to destroy dis guy is something I've not seen before.... They said he plagiarised his PhD thesis, the sch that awarded him, said no he didn't... After they couldn't get him through that, they went after his personal stories, that it's fake, they went through his students who doesn't like him... His school couldn't find anything to sack him for, yet the press kept writing and releasing articles... Till the dude couldn't take it anymore.... Omooo |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Judolisco(m): 5:56am On Aug 17 |
Gerrard59:he didn't lie to get his job... Did he plagiarise, yes, the right thing to do is to write to the school that awarded him his PhD... They did so and the sch cleared him.... About his personal lies.. That has nothing to do with his academic qualifications... He said he ran 30 marathons in 36 days... They said they couldn't find evidence, but no one has come out with evidence that he didn't.... The media helped in destroying this guy... |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Tenses: 6:59am On Aug 17 |
oakenfold:Nathan Cofnas is an American with a Jewish heritage. He is a hater of black indeed and a supremacist. No argument. Why I called that guy sick is because he likes to subvert the truth. He claims Cofnas was dismissed from Cambridge too because of plagiarism as well which is not true. Cofnas was dismissed because of his supremacy view which the school viewed as being racist. The young man, Nathan Cofnas was guilty as charged. There might be a witch hunting against black scholars in USA but Cofnas was guilty. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by sulaak(m): 7:15am On Aug 17 |
AndroBlaze:The media comment is that Jason benefited from DEI. It's always good to succeed in silence. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by GloriousGbola: 10:10am On Aug 17 |
i saw this this is another take on the matter https://emeraldbook.org/news/aug-1526-3/ The story of Jason Arday was never simply about one man. It was a tragedy written in two acts, a devastating play performed by two powerful actors: the University of Cambridge and the British media. The narrative is painfully simple and devastatingly clear—th[b]e university set him up to fail, and the press finished the job.[/b] The death of the 41-year-old sociologist, who was found dead at his home in Battersea, South London, on August 14, 2026, is not just a personal tragedy but a profound institutional failure that has sent shockwaves through British academia. The Metropolitan Police stated that his death is being treated as unexpected, but it is not believed to be suspicious.cambridge no try as if they had done proper due diligence mr arday would not have been elevated to his position in the first place. likely there was serious internal mgt pressure .Normally in instances like this you have to get a person with an impeccable record because down the line he will be challenged. If Barack obama had any dirt on him, you can be sure the right wing press would have jumped on it. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by DeepSight(m): 10:20am On Aug 17 |
GloriousGbola:Yes agreed, but the way the writer tries to blame Cambridge more than Arday is all shades of wrong. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by GloriousGbola: 10:32am On Aug 17 |
DeepSight:Your run of the mill corporate employer in naija will vet your credentials. A Google search can confirm a lot of what is in your cv. If there was no internal pressure, this would have ended at the interview stage. It is not as if Jason was weaving intricate impenetrable falsehoods. Someone made HR waive all the protocols in place because they were engaging in performative DEI and they wanted someone who would tick all possible boxes. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Ibime(m): 10:34am On Aug 17 |
"To be a Black person in elite institutions, and particularly in elite academia, is to have the standards simultaneously set too low and too high: too low because only a Black person with Arday’s dubious qualifications and seemingly invented biography could have been elevated to the top of the mountain in academia and publishing; and too high because only a Black person could have been pushed off that mountain with such nakedly racist enthusiasm, his tumbling fall so ruthlessly documented, analyzed, and cheered. When a famous white man errs, people tend to rightly understand his mistakes or transgressions as an individual’s missteps. When a famous Black man does, the errors are typically turned into spectacle, characterized as proof of the inferiority, suspected all along, of his race. Around the same time yesterday afternoon that I learned of Arday’s fate, I came across another piece of news: an announcement that Ross Barkan, a white novelist and journalist, had just been dropped by New York magazine after the publication—having investigated allegations regarding dozens of instances of plagiarism in Barkan’s writing—concluded that his work “did not live up to our editorial standards.” Swiftly afterward, Barkan announced that he would now focus on writing a new column at The Nation, another venerable outlet, where he will get a very public second chance. It is impossible to know what is in someone’s head or heart in their final moments. I have to imagine, though, that Arday understood well enough the world he had entered and how its rules tend to work: When you are Black, some people will open the door for you far wider than they should. And when that door abruptly comes swinging shut, you will be offered no second chances." Tyler Austin Harper in the Atlantic READ: The Truths That Failed Jason Arday https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/jason-arday-cambridge-professor-death/688304/?gift=v-0hjcKeTUtA3JJp7LeBdLutCSe0xZNnAy0pVoRtVjg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by DeepSight(m): 10:43am On Aug 17 |
GloriousGbola:I said I agree. I am simply saying the employer who failed to check is not more guilty than the employee who forges and fakes. But the writer made it seem so, and even made it seem that it was a deliberate thing. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by WhizdomXX(m): 10:45am On Aug 17 |
Kobojunkie:This was quite interesting. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by GloriousGbola: 10:56am On Aug 17 |
DeepSight:I personally think that Cambridge Ogas at the top wanted to convey a liberal image and so pushed this through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViZEDSfX9EI?si=C92EBSvLEH_9vG2M This scene from dirty Harry may clarify my thoughts Performative liberalism Meanwhile during Jim crow Civil rights activists had to ensure anyone put forward was 101% Rosa Parks was not the first person to refuse to give up her seat. But the first person who did so was an unwed mother and that is what the media would have focused on to change the narrative. I am sure there were enough sterling candidates that Cambridge could have taken for this role but they chose to self sabotage by rushing the process and taking the least qualified but best packaged box ticker. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by nairalanda1(m): 11:00am On Aug 17 |
Kobojunkie:If he also had not told stories like being non verbal until eleven and running thirty marathons in 35 days, partly with a broken femur, the story won't have made the media, just the 'retraction watch' website. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by DeepSight(m): 11:00am On Aug 17 |
GloriousGbola:I agree with all this. Does any of it take away from the fraud by Arday? Or does it convert Cambridge to the prime mover in the fraud? |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by GloriousGbola: 11:10am On Aug 17 |
DeepSight:One time in my career I had a grossly incompetent and lazy hod who was related to executive mgt. Basically they forced her on us and forced her elevation to HOD even though she clearly had no technical competence. On her own steam she would have remained in her manager position. Instead she was put in a role where her negligence led to real damage because she was not on top of anything. My point is Arday would not have gotten as far as he did if Cambridge mgt were not pushing for and focusing on meeting an unrealistic DEI target. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by DeepSight(m): 11:17am On Aug 17 |
GloriousGbola:I am tired of saying I agree. I agree and understand. But at this point you are almost absolving Arday of fraud and suggesting that Cambridge was the only sinner here. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by GloriousGbola: 11:22am On Aug 17 |
DeepSight:Arday is obviously a fraud and we meet people like that all the time With the resources available to Cambridge, they should and would have sussed him out sharply. In the 2020s lies can be fact checked in real time. I am running a business. If I wind up employing a fraud who has no technical knowledge but a great doctored resume I will blame myself. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by DeepSight(m): 11:29am On Aug 17 |
GloriousGbola:Agreeed. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Wickedtruths: 2:23pm On Aug 17 |
Lordbinsmar:Just as expected. Beer parlor stories. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Lordbinsmar: 4:38pm On Aug 17 |
Wickedtruths:That you do listen to every day of your life. |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by SamuraiXXX: 4:58pm On Aug 17 |
FSBoperator:It annoys me that here in Nigeria some misguided citizens will be bragging about being descendants of Jews |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Kobojunkie: 5:00pm On Aug 17 |
SamuraiXXX:There is nothing wrong with being a descendant of Jews. Why must they be ashamed of their ancestry(assuming their claim is true) because some Jew-hate virus has infected your mind? 😒😒 |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by SamuraiXXX: 5:02pm On Aug 17 |
nairalanda1:The lies were just too glaring for them not to have attracted public scrutiny |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by SamuraiXXX: 5:06pm On Aug 17 |
Kobojunkie:Na wetin concern blackman with Jews hereditary wise? Only a self-hating and low self esteem person would be trying to famz a race which descriminates and belittles your own race! |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by Kobojunkie: 5:10pm On Aug 17 |
SamuraiXXX:Why education don skip this one and finish!😒😒 So, if a black man happens to have Jewish blood in him, he should not concern himself with his very ancestry because, according to you, na self-hate to honor one's own ancestry? Some of you are just walking zombies! 😒 |
| Re: Jason Arday: "I’ve Turned Down Every Single Interview" - Professor Qadira by otipoju(m): 6:32pm On Aug 17 |
chigator2:You get it perfectly. Africans especially Nigerians are the most friendly and welcoming people in the entire world. Wherever I go I keep my head up and carry myself with tremendous dignity and I am not looking for love or validation from strangers. I understand that racism has zero to do with the color of the black skin...but with how naive, timid, foolish, porous, un-shrewd, self seeking, seemingly self loathing , openely corrupt behaviour that our leaders have exhibited over the years. All other races are not as loving as Africans but lookout solely for the perpetuation of their race. Na we go open our the stores of our treasures to come carry, we no get any means to defend our lands, we no go use our resources to develop our land but instead carry am go dump for other continents, na we go sell our own fellow Africans give other races as slaves still borrow money from them for enjoyment purposes and steal and take it back to them again. Utterly disrespect worthy behaviour. |
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