00:00:31.000The left says we were responsible for noticing that he was lying.
00:00:34.000In a battle between truth and narrative, the left says the narrative ought to win every single time.
00:00:39.000Jason Arde was a professor at Cambridge University, and he was obviously a fabulist.
00:00:45.000He was a person who lied about pretty much obviously his entire personal history, like pretty much everything.
00:00:50.000And he was treated to the best that Great Britain had to offer for all of this.
00:00:56.000So, to become a professor at Cambridge University, the requirements included an outstanding research record of international stature and a proven track record.
00:01:09.000Our day had, according to the New York Times, a modest publication record and had bounced from one university to the next, not staying long enough to oversee a full three year or more doctorate.
00:01:17.000Cambridge hired him anyway in 2023, making him, at 37, the university's youngest black professor at a time when the school was under pressure to diversify.
00:01:26.000He had told this ridiculous story about himself.
00:01:29.000He said that he was diagnosed early with autism and then he had such significant developmental delays that he spent his entire childhood in a special needs school.0.58
00:01:37.000In his account, he did not speak until he was 11 or read until he was 18.
00:01:41.000Clearly, this stuff was not true, by the way.
00:01:43.000He managed to earn his doctorate and began giving keynote speeches on the academic circuit.
00:01:47.000He said that he had run 30 marathons in 35 days for charity, which, of course, was not true.
00:01:55.000A review, according to the New York Times, of internal Cambridge documents and interviews with former colleagues and associates shows that in addition to passing over more experienced candidates for the job, administrators gushed publicly about Arte's scholarship and privately disregarded all the complaints about his work.
00:02:08.000It turns out they were filled with plagiarism and nonsense.
00:02:11.000Three months after Ardai's hiring, two British scholars privately wrote to Cambridge alerting administrators to potential plagiarism in one of Ardai's papers.
00:02:20.000The department chair met with him and mentioned his ongoing experiences of direct and indirect racism, along with significant health issues that had affected his work on the paper in question.
00:02:28.000So he claimed racism and he had health problems.
00:02:32.000So it turns out that pretty much everything that he said was false.
00:02:36.000His supposedly remarkable trajectory from nonverbal preteen to PhD had no precedent in medical literature.
00:02:44.000When a journalist for the Times Higher Education asked about plagiarism last year, a prominent British defamation law firm helped kill the article.
00:02:51.000And Arte reported the journalist to the police.
00:02:54.000So, over the weekend, it turned out, so all this came out.
00:02:57.000Arte ended up resigning from Cambridge over all of this.
00:03:00.000He still had a book that was out with Simon Schuster and all the rest.
00:03:02.000And so, over the weekend, he killed himself.
00:03:24.000I understand that we have a spate of overdiagnosis throughout the West when it comes to mental conditions.
00:03:29.000But people do, in fact, have mental conditions and they do require people to care for them and people to watch out for them and people not to just give them benefit after benefit after benefit because it turns out that very often mental illness has a high correlation with attention seeking.
00:03:43.000And in a lot of various industries in the West, you can do really well if you're attention seeking.
00:03:47.000Like, really well if you're attention seeking.
00:03:49.000And people will just give you the attention.
00:03:52.000I remember mentioning this about Kanye West long before his mental spiral with regard to Nazism.
00:03:57.000That obviously Kanye West is going through some stuff and had some mental health issues.
00:04:01.000Okay, well, it seems pretty clear that if you are a person who goes around lying the way that our day was for literally decades, if you go around making up the most ridiculous stories, people around you owe it to you to stop you and to get you the care that you need.
00:04:19.000Instead, an entire infrastructure was created to make our day richer and more famous because he was saying things that a bunch of people on the left wanted to hear about race.0.97
00:04:27.000They wanted to hear that white people were the problem.
00:04:31.000And so, in an effort to demonstrate how woke they were, they kept promoting this totally unqualified grifter over and over and over and over again.
00:04:41.000And then it all fell apart because, on contact with reality, grift tends to fall apart.
00:05:25.000There's some decisions, however, that should not be made before you've had a chance to stop and see clearly and talk to somebody.
00:05:32.000Abortion, unfortunately, has changed in exactly the same way as everything else.
00:05:35.000A woman facing an unexpected pregnancy can now order the abortion pill online, often before anyone has had the chance to tell her, You're not alone.
00:06:10.000Together we can save lives one heartbeat at a time.
00:06:12.000Most important thing you're going to do today dial pound 250 and use keyword baby.
00:06:16.000Okay, now what makes this insane is that people then came out of the woodwork and blamed the people who discovered that he was a grifter.
00:06:25.000It turns out that in order to defend DEI, not only were they willing to promote someone totally unqualified, not only were they willing to go all in on the grift, they're going to blame everyone else for this person committing suicide when in reality, If there are any outside forces that contributed to this person's suicide, it would have been the people who kept on promoting him in the face of reality when sooner or later reality was going to hit.
00:06:47.000Take, for example, Zahra Sultana, a member of parliament in the UK.
00:06:54.000Quote, Now, again, the idea here is that this is like a Princess Diana moment, that somehow this is the paparazzi following around Jason Ardai until he gets in a car crash.
00:07:38.000It's a tragedy on so many levels, but particularly just for.
00:07:44.000Everybody who knew Jason, his family, obviously, his friends, we think of them today.
00:07:50.000It's not a moment for any rushing to judgment.
00:07:54.000It's a moment for reflection, I would say, reflecting on how things came to this.
00:08:00.000Yes, I mean, I agree, but I don't think he wants to reflect on the same sort of stuff that I want to reflect on.
00:08:04.000I want to reflect on how a system allowed a person who is obviously a mentally ill grifter to turn into a prominent academic and then, on contact with reality, his life breaks down and he kills himself.0.54
00:08:30.000Again, this is something the left loves to do.0.74
00:08:33.000In fact, the entire radical trans movement is based on this.0.67
00:08:36.000The idea for the radical trans movement is that if a person believes he is a member of the opposite sex and you tell him that he is not, in fact, a member of the opposite sex and then he kills himself, that's your fault for mentioning the truth.0.95
00:09:19.000To be a prominent anti racist black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments.0.59
00:09:24.000You know that at any point the attacks can come like a lynch mob.
00:09:29.000Okay, he was not, Ibram X. Kendi was not lynched.
00:09:31.000Ibram X. Kendi used the Black Lives Matter moment to clear millions of dollars for himself.0.52
00:09:38.000Millions and millions and millions of dollars.
00:09:42.000In September of 2023, it was made clear, for example, that his Center for Anti Racist Research, which was started at Boston University, took in $43 million in grants.
00:09:57.000$43 million in grants, including $10 million from the original Twitter co founder, Jack Dorsey.
00:10:02.000They let off almost all of their staff.
00:10:04.000They never generated anything, anything.
00:10:11.000Other donors included TJ Maxx, Stop and Shop, and Peloton.
00:10:16.000A week after the layoffs, BU announced that they had received complaints focused on the center's culture and his grant management practices, and allegations of workplace culture that included fear of retaliation and discrimination.
00:10:27.000So Ibram X. Kenyon knows the grift well.
00:10:29.000The reason that he identifies with this stuff is because he, too, is a grifter.
00:10:46.000What he is saying is that if you pointed out that Jason R. Day was lying and was a plagiarist and had been grifting, you're responsible for his death.
00:10:53.000Your lynchers announce your death as if they had no role in your lynching.
00:10:57.000Yes, we all participated, according to Ibrahim X. Kendi, in Jason R. Day's lynching by pointing out things that are true.
00:11:02.000If we now live, again, in a world in which truth is completely arbitrary, According to people like Candace Owens, or in some cases, like Ibrahimax Kendi or Jason Arde, the truth is offensive, so offensive that if you kill yourself because of the truth, it is the truth that must lose.
00:11:19.000The post truth era is a terrible place.