The Matt Walsh Show - August 17, 2026


Ep. 1823 - Cambridge’s DEI Superstar Was A Serial Liar, Plagiarist & Hate Hoaxer


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00:00:46.080 Jason Arday was a serial liar, thug, narcissist, 0.95
00:00:51.040 criminal, and plagiarist who quickly rose to the ranks 0.99
00:00:53.800 of full professor at Cambridge,
00:00:56.060 one of the most prestigious and sought after jobs
00:00:58.340 in all of academia, Arde was awarded his job as a professor of sociology of education, not because
00:01:04.520 of his talent or scholarship, but because he was a black activist. He told liberal white women what
00:01:10.740 they wanted to hear. Arde fabricated elaborate, obviously fraudulent narratives about how
00:01:16.180 racist had oppressed him throughout his life. He also concocted bizarre stories about how
00:01:21.240 masked men with knives were chasing him around campus, how he supposedly discovered a pig's head
00:01:27.340 on the porch of his family home. Despite clear evidence that Arde was delusional, the leaders of
00:01:33.780 Cambridge, mostly white liberal women, of course, fell in love with him on the spot. They passed
00:01:38.100 over thousands of other qualified, much more qualified applicants, many of them white, in order
00:01:43.780 to sell a story to the public about the virtues of DEI. Cambridge promoted Arde as a shiny example
00:01:49.820 of a strong black man who had overcome tremendous adversity, claimed he couldn't even read or write
00:01:55.680 until he was 18 years old and became the youngest black professor in the university's history.
00:02:01.140 And then when it all came crashing down, when Arday was exposed as the complete fraud he was,
00:02:07.360 he apparently took his own life. Faced with some actual adversity for once in his life,
00:02:12.620 Arday immediately opted for the coward's way out. He left his two children behind rather than face
00:02:17.920 the consequences of his own lifelong deception. And through it all, Cambridge and many other
00:02:22.660 race hustlers, including the UK's new prime minister, have stood by Arday. Many mainstream
00:02:28.420 media outlets in this country have run sympathetic stories on him as well, where they suggest that
00:02:33.080 his critics are responsible for his death. Jason Arday chose to lie and plagiarize and then chose
00:02:40.500 to end his life, apparently. And the only person not responsible for any of Jason Arday's
00:02:47.740 disastrous decisions, we are told, is Jason Arday himself. Watch.
00:02:54.560 The death of high-profile academic Jason Arday has intensified scrutiny of the media coverage
00:02:59.720 of him beforehand. Jason Arday, a sociologist who was once celebrated as the youngest ever
00:03:05.340 black professor at Cambridge University, was found dead on Friday. That's just nine days
00:03:10.220 after he resigned over allegations of plagiarism in his academic work. His family said in a
00:03:15.460 statement released by his publisher. The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason as he
00:03:20.620 had been subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse since taking the job. The British Prime
00:03:24.760 Minister called his death a tragedy on so many levels. A really sad and sorry state of affairs
00:03:31.060 and I think we just all today think of Jason, his contribution and his family and friends.
00:03:36.760 Some British media stories called the 41-year-old Professor Plagiarism and a poster boy for
00:03:42.160 diversity. He acknowledged some mistakes in his work, he said were partly due to a lack of
00:03:46.580 supervision, but denied plagiarism. Questions surrounding his athletic and fundraising
00:03:51.060 achievements also dominated media coverage. As the story about him continued to gain traction,
00:03:56.540 Arday said in a letter posted online that he resigned because he, quote, reached the limits
00:04:00.880 of what any person should reasonably be expected to endure. Arday was found unresponsive in South
00:04:06.240 London on Friday and was later pronounced dead at the scene, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan
00:04:10.680 and police told CNN. Following his death, Cambridge University said in a statement,
00:04:15.000 we are desperately saddened to hear this tragic news. Our heartfelt sympathies go to Jason Arday's
00:04:20.280 family and friends at this incredibly difficult time. So he didn't plagiarize. They were just
00:04:27.220 mistakes in his work that were due to lack of supervision. He didn't lift whole passages from
00:04:33.540 other authors on purpose. It was an accident. He tripped, fell, and, you know, copy and pasted
00:04:38.180 other people's work without attribution. It happens. It happens to the best of us.
00:04:42.600 CNN also told us that questions were raised about Arde's other alleged achievements, but
00:04:47.580 they didn't go any further into that. This is drive-by news coverage that's designed to convince
00:04:53.320 people that Arde was smeared by white supremacists, when in reality, he deserved everything that
00:04:59.000 happened to it. But the true story of Arde's fall is much bigger than the sordid collapse of one
00:05:04.880 phony academic at a failing school in the UK. This is also a story about why whenever they
00:05:11.840 seek to find the most qualified black candidates for high-level jobs, whether they're looking for
00:05:16.300 a justice on the Supreme Court or a president of Harvard University or a White House press secretary
00:05:21.100 or a vice president of the United States or a full professor at Cambridge, 1.00
00:05:25.860 white liberals inevitably select imbeciles who are as morally stunted as they are intellectually 1.00
00:05:31.700 stunted and obviously unqualified for the job. Now, you would think with unlimited resources to 1.00
00:05:36.720 find the most qualified black candidates available, they'd come up with someone worthwhile.
00:05:43.140 You'd think that might happen at least occasionally, but it's not happening.
00:05:48.320 And we need to talk about why. We also need to discuss the backlash against Nathan Kofnes,
00:05:53.720 a former fellow at Cambridge who lost his job because he told the truth about anti-white
00:05:59.960 discrimination in universities all over the world. Kofnus, with the help of other academics and
00:06:05.740 outlets, most notably Retraction Watch, exposed Arde's fraud over the summer. And for that,
00:06:11.920 he has been subjected to a smear campaign by Cambridge University, as well as various left-wing
00:06:16.520 academics and activists. So the very thing they accuse Kofnus of provoking against Arde,
00:06:22.840 an unfair, vengeful, politically motivated smear campaign, is precisely, of course,
00:06:28.520 what they're doing to him. In fact, it's not just Coughness that they're going after. The left is
00:06:32.680 demonizing anyone who reports the truth about our day, including mainstream outlets like
00:06:37.060 The Telegraph, The Guardian, even The New York Times. The reaction has been nothing short of
00:06:42.260 psychotic. There is an all-out effort to intimidate and harass critics of the serial fabulist, in part
00:06:47.440 because they realize that if people keep digging, they're going to find out that he was not an
00:06:53.200 aberration. The vast majority of liberal arts scholarships at every university, including
00:06:58.020 Cambridge, as well as the entire DEI industry, are all just as fraudulent as R-Day himself was.
00:07:06.240 And right now, all of these scammers are terrified that they're going to be exposed as well.
00:07:10.940 That would include a woman named Hillary Kremen, who serves as the head of faculty and professor
00:07:16.660 of education at Cambridge. She's one of the faculty members who hired R-Day in 2023.
00:07:22.320 the BBC was on the scene to cover this momentous development in a puff piece that
00:07:27.260 has not aged especially well and Kremen is the the white woman at the end of the segment just to be
00:07:33.280 clear watch. I always felt it was a privilege to have a period of 11 years where maybe I couldn't
00:07:41.220 speak and I couldn't converse in a way that everyone else could because it allowed me to
00:07:45.120 see things in a different way. Professor Jason Arday was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
00:07:50.520 at the age of three. He couldn't speak until he was 11 and read or write until he was 18.
00:07:57.200 Throughout his early years his parents continued to believe in him. At 18 my mum had got to a
00:08:03.700 point where there was only so much she could do and she was brilliant even though she had this
00:08:07.560 belief that you know he'll do something okay but she just decided I need someone else to
00:08:11.540 believe in him as much as I believe in him. Therapists predicted he would need full-time
00:08:16.100 assistants throughout his life how wrong they were and now jason is days away from achieving
00:08:22.180 another ambition here's his new boss at cambridge we do have a lot of work to do but i feel really
00:08:32.180 optimistic part of his research will look at new ways to make higher education more accessible for
00:08:38.500 everyone what can we do to ensure that this isn't a market appointment in five years time how can
00:08:44.740 this become the norm we've listened to the voices of our black scholars and our black students
00:08:52.100 and some of it has not been easy to hear to be honest but we're able to face up to some of the
00:09:00.180 structural issues that people that people face there will be those i think this is a tokenistic
00:09:05.380 appointment what are your thoughts on this the board of electors on your interview day were
00:09:11.460 absolutely unanimous. We are so lucky to have you. You are the best in the world in terms of
00:09:18.720 the research that you do. Well, there's nothing quite like being forced to watch the sexual
00:09:23.820 tension in the Cambridge Sociology Department between a man who looks like a long-lost member
00:09:29.000 of Milli Vanilli and a woman who looks and acts like she should be starring in a PSA about the
00:09:34.440 dangers of brain parasites from cats. Hilary Kremen is living the fantasy of every white
00:09:39.420 liberal female on the planet right now. This is the equivalent of like a BTS concert for millions
00:09:45.360 of adult women. She gets the opportunity to fawn over a black guy, to apologize to him on behalf
00:09:50.420 of white people. They love nothing more than that. They love to do that. And to present herself as
00:09:55.160 this exceedingly wise, introspective academic who's willing to do the work. And to really sell
00:10:00.700 the message, there's even the dramatic close-up of the interracial handshake, like it's a modern
00:10:04.680 day renaissance painting. So who is this person? Who is Hilary Kremen exactly? Well, I looked up
00:10:10.560 her CV, and as you expect, she hasn't done anything worthwhile in her entire career.
00:10:16.060 Her publications have titles like Violence and Institutional Racism in Schools,
00:10:20.820 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Restorative Justice, and Is It Possible to Access the Voice
00:10:26.760 of Preschool Children? Now, she throws in every woke buzzword you'd expect. Admittedly,
00:10:32.320 I didn't read any of it, of course. But from what I can tell, no one else is reading this stuff
00:10:37.920 either. A professor named Alex Edmonds took a look at Kremen's work on Google Scholar
00:10:42.300 and found that she's been cited only about 2,000 times in her entire career, which has lasted for
00:10:47.560 more than 26 years. And for comparison, he says that a senior professor in finance might have
00:10:52.860 2,000 citations in a single year. In other words, Hilary Kremen, like virtually every other academic
00:10:58.380 and the liberal arts, is a net negative on society. She consumes a significant amount
00:11:03.260 of taxpayer funding. She hires faculty members on the basis of their skin color, and her research,
00:11:08.940 if we can call it that, which nobody cares about in the first place and does not contribute to
00:11:13.680 the reserves of human knowledge in any way, is all about finding new methods to discriminate
00:11:18.860 against white people. The world would be a better place if professors like Hillary Kremen were
00:11:23.860 purged from society. It's as simple as that. This helps explain why Kremen might say that Jason
00:11:31.220 Arde is the best in the world. It also explains why she refused to fire Arde or even criticize
00:11:37.000 him when evidence of his plagiarism surfaced. Frauds tend to look out for one another. They
00:11:43.180 understand that when one of them falls, the others are also in jeopardy. Arde himself understood that
00:11:49.360 concept very well. In April, he spoke at the British Sociological Association's 75th Anniversary
00:11:54.400 Conference, where he lamented the fact that right-wing activists were exposing Black frauds
00:12:00.200 in academia, including Claudine Gay, who was the former president of Harvard. Arday stated that,
00:12:05.620 quote, the instruments that are designed to protect academic integrity, designed to protect
00:12:09.980 our well-being and our intellectual property, are weaponized. There isn't any room to sit there and
00:12:15.580 watch your fellows suffer for no reason, it's abhorrent. It's a disgrace and, quite frankly,
00:12:20.560 evil. That's the cancer that we need to eradicate from academia. Now, of course, Arday was not 0.73
00:12:26.880 worried about eradicating a cancer from academia. He knew that he was the cancer, along with every
00:12:32.980 other unqualified activist who's elevated solely on the basis of skin color. So let's get specific
00:12:38.820 about what exactly Arday was guilty of and how obvious it was. On July 21st, Nathan Kofnus
00:12:45.740 published an article on his substat called DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge. And in the
00:12:51.660 article, he describes running Arday's 2015 PhD dissertation through plagiarism detection software.
00:12:59.000 And he found that on several occasions, Arday stole the wording with minimal changes from a 2009
00:13:05.920 dissertation written by a student in London. And we'll put some of the side-by-sides up on the
00:13:11.100 screen right now. You can see that the yellow highlights indicate verbatim copying. Green
00:13:16.580 indicates a paraphrase. So there's a lot of verbatim copying, as you can see. The plagiarism
00:13:22.820 is obvious. It's extensive. There are many more examples as well, including plagiarism from other
00:13:28.740 sources. But it's important to understand that Arde's plagiarism extended well beyond his
00:13:33.380 dissertation. I mean, that's bad enough on its own. Several of his published papers were plagiarized
00:13:38.920 as well. Unfortunately for our day, a retired professor named Dave Harris came across one of
00:13:43.720 these published papers entitled Attempting to Break the Chain, Reimagining Inclusive Pedagogy
00:13:48.660 and Decolonizing the Curriculum Within the Academy. And Harris noticed some apparent plagiarism. Now,
00:13:56.580 why you would even need to plagiarize nonsense about decolonizing the curriculum when it's all
00:14:02.500 made up drivel anyway is beyond me. I mean, you could just make up whatever you want. It doesn't
00:14:08.540 mean anything. Decolonizing the curriculum. I could write a paper on that subject in 45 minutes.
00:14:16.260 You're just making it up. I mean, that's the fun of it, isn't it? Isn't that the one thing that
00:14:22.180 should make this fun? Being in this totally nonsensical academic field, you can just make
00:14:26.680 up whatever you want. Be creative, have fun with it. That's maybe the worst thing about the RDA
00:14:32.200 scandal, not only was he a plagiarist, but he was plagiarizing gibberish. I mean, that's like
00:14:38.020 copying a preschooler's chalk drawing of a tree and trying to pass it off as your own. You could
00:14:43.560 have just made your own tree? Really? You had to copy that one? Anyway, Harris wrote an email to
00:14:50.320 Arday seeking an explanation. It was a polite email that simply asked Arday to explain the
00:14:55.980 quote puzzling similarities between his work and previously published materials. In response,
00:15:01.460 Once a week later, R.A. wrote that it was, quote, disappointing that you have imposed yourself on me in the manner you have, i.e. without any reflexivity or humility whatsoever.
00:15:13.820 Talk about the pot calling the kettle black there. 0.78
00:15:16.560 R.A. added, quote, you'll likely know from your literature reviews, not from experience, that the academy is a hostile place for black scholars.
00:15:24.460 There are very few of us that become professors, and even fewer in the fortunate or precarious position I am in, which is having the platform to represent and uplift other people of color even beyond academia.
00:15:35.000 As a black autistic man with global developmental delay and severe dyslexia, the odds are even less likely.
00:15:41.680 My hope has always been that people like me feel inspired to pursue academia and that people like you can make space for this.
00:15:47.600 Instead of spending your time trying to dismantle racism and ableism, you've spent what I assume
00:15:52.480 is hours coming through my work looking for mistakes.
00:15:56.380 Arnick concluded, quote, please do not email me again.
00:15:59.200 Should you have the time to spare, I invite you to direct your resources elsewhere.
00:16:03.500 Anything further from you will be considered bullying and harassment. 0.61
00:16:08.940 Then, I mean, all that reads like a parody of what a, you know, what a black academic
00:16:15.000 activists would write in response to being accused rightly of plagiarism. Why are you imposing
00:16:22.220 yourself on me? You're imposing yourself. I've stolen from you, but by you pointing that out,
00:16:29.840 you are imposing yourself on me. Why would you impose yourself? Don't you know I have dyslexia?
00:16:35.140 Don't you know I'm autistic? And if the self-parody wasn't enough, Arde then contacted
00:16:42.320 the police who referred the matter to the Devon and Cornwell police for investigation. So to be
00:16:47.720 clear, Arday reported a professor to the police and claimed that he was a victim of a fake crime,
00:16:55.020 a hate crime, presumably, also harassment, in order to shut down a legitimate inquiry into
00:17:01.420 his fraudulent work. Rather than denying the accusation and providing context to clear his name,
00:17:07.420 he started rambling about how he's black and autistic,
00:17:11.560 which is about as close to an admission of guilt 0.90
00:17:14.260 as you'll get.
00:17:16.620 The police declined to pursue the case
00:17:18.780 after investigating it,
00:17:19.860 but they should have just put Arde in handcuffs
00:17:22.620 at that point,
00:17:23.720 and he should have been fired immediately.
00:17:26.720 There's no place in a university
00:17:28.280 for a professor who tries to have his critics arrested,
00:17:31.280 obviously,
00:17:32.380 and filing a phony complaint with the police
00:17:35.040 is a crime.
00:17:35.820 Arday should have gone to jail for it. He is a criminal in addition to everything else. 0.68
00:17:43.020 Arday resorted to intimidation because it usually worked for him. Most notably, 0.86
00:17:47.280 in September of 25, Arday received an email from the Times Higher Education,
00:17:51.880 which was about to report on his extensive plagiarism. Arday responded by bringing in
00:17:56.340 the top defamation law firm in the UK, Carter Ruck, to send a cease and desist to the newspaper.
00:18:03.140 It's unclear if R.D. was paying the firm's bills or Cambridge was, but somebody was.
00:18:08.100 In the cease and desist, the law firm said that the paper was relying on a source
00:18:11.760 who did not understand the academic process.
00:18:15.560 The law firm also accused the newspaper of harassment
00:18:17.780 and mocked the idea that there was actually a story here.
00:18:22.340 In the end, it worked.
00:18:24.200 The Times Higher Education shamefully caved.
00:18:27.560 They never ran the story.
00:18:30.360 But Kaufness didn't give up.
00:18:31.380 He went through all of Arday's prominent published papers, including the one flagged by Harris, and found even more plagiarism.
00:18:38.100 A lot more. Again, we'll throw some of the examples up on screen.
00:18:40.980 These are all flagrant examples of plagiarism. It didn't require any kind of careful line-by-line comparison.
00:18:46.860 Plagiarism detection software picked up on all of these problems immediately.
00:18:51.360 You know, there may be cases of plagiarists who are clever enough to cover up their theft or obscure it to a large degree.
00:18:57.400 Jason Arday was not clever. And we can assume that there are even more examples that the program
00:19:03.280 hasn't found yet. Again, other than Kofnes and a few professors, nobody with any resources has
00:19:08.780 been looking into this guy. But when you zoom out, things get even worse for Arday. Here's the most
00:19:14.900 important image from Kofnes' Substack article. It's a summary of his findings after looking through
00:19:21.060 all 10 of Arday's most prominent publications. And as you can see, at least four of the 10 articles
00:19:27.120 involve some amount of plagiarism with extensive plagiarism in at least two of the articles,
00:19:31.440 but that's not even the most important takeaway here. The really important takeaway is that if
00:19:36.160 you eliminate the plagiarized papers, then Arde has not produced any actual scholarship.
00:19:42.560 You're left only with interviews he supposedly conducted about racist white people, so there's
00:19:47.040 nothing to indicate that Arde has any academic qualifications whatsoever. Now, when these
00:19:52.460 concerns were raised with Cambridge, the university, of course, said it didn't care because the
00:19:57.140 plagiarism took place before he was hired at Cambridge. They said that, quote, in this instance,
00:20:01.440 the research that your concerns relate to was carried out before Professor Arde joined the
00:20:05.300 university. It would normally be for the institution at which the work was done to consider
00:20:09.500 any research integrity concerns with a particular paper published in their name. As such, we do not
00:20:14.260 consider it within our remit to investigate the paper to which you refer. In other words, they
00:20:20.220 hired him because of his research, but they don't care if the research is fake. I mean, it's like
00:20:27.560 if a hospital hired a doctor and then you pointed out to the hospital that, oh, that doctor's whole
00:20:32.400 resume is fake. He doesn't even have a real medical degree. And then the hospital said,
00:20:38.360 yeah, but that happened before. That was then, this is now. I mean, yeah, the guy's currently
00:20:44.120 operating on your heart, but that was way in the past. That's not up to us to look into.
00:20:51.040 Meanwhile, the journals that published R.A.'s articles took them offline and allowed him to make edits before they went back online.
00:20:57.180 The journals all stated that the edits were relatively minor and merely involved, quote,
00:21:01.280 making it clear where ideas were adapted from past research.
00:21:06.060 But in truth, as Retraction Watch found, the edits were actually extensive.
00:21:10.060 So to give just one example, R.A.'s articles in the article in the journal Social Sciences
00:21:14.280 originally stated that he had analyzed interview transcripts with, quote,
00:21:18.640 an iterative coding scheme using Envivo qualitative data analysis software
00:21:24.120 before having a researcher code data to enhance the validity of emerging themes and claims.
00:21:31.020 So that sounds all very technical. Sounds like he did some actual work in the original version.
00:21:35.840 But in the revised version of the article, Arde merely says that he recorded the interviews,
00:21:39.880 transcribed them and analyzed them by using, quote, review and reflection. Additionally,
00:21:46.740 Retraction Watch also found that R.A. had plagiarized some of these interviews from other
00:21:50.760 sources, so he wasn't even conducting them himself. This guy was not simply a plagiarist,
00:21:55.740 in other words. He was actively fabricating data in order to push a certain narrative. He was
00:22:00.420 engaging in deliberate deception in multiple different ways. So this is institutional
00:22:06.620 corruption at every level. Cambridge refused to punish the black guy they hired as a token,
00:22:11.540 and the peer-reviewed scientific journals allowed Arday to cover his tracks with stealth edits,
00:22:16.400 even after his plagiarism was brought to their attention. And on top of that, even before all
00:22:20.660 the plagiarism was uncovered, Arday was lying about every aspect of his life in a very pathological
00:22:26.080 and blatant fashion. First of all, he claimed that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, even after
00:22:33.260 suffering a leg fracture around the 21st marathon. Nobody who's looked into this rather
00:22:38.760 extraordinary claim has been able to verify it. There's a news article where he tells a reporter
00:22:43.540 that he ran 30 marathons, but it's based solely on his own claims. And there's nothing in the
00:22:48.120 article about a leg fracture. Arde also claimed at various points that he ran 300 miles in three
00:22:53.640 days or 600 miles in six days, depending on where you look. If true, that would mean that Jason
00:22:59.360 Narde is nearly on par with the greatest runners who have ever lived. As Kaufness writes, for
00:23:05.900 comparison, Yanis Kouros, who has been described as the greatest ultra runner of all time,
00:23:11.060 set a world record in 1984 when he ran 359 miles in three days. As a side note, I have to say it's
00:23:17.480 very funny that a grown man was making this kind of thing up. It sounds like a lie a third grader
00:23:22.700 might tell his friends when he gets back to school after summer vacation. You know what I did? You
00:23:27.820 know what I did? I ran so far, like 300 miles. And then I got attacked by a bear.
00:23:37.060 That's my Jason Arde impression. Then there's the claim that Arde couldn't read or write until he
00:23:42.460 was 18, even though on its face, it's absurd to think that somebody who's illiterate at 18 could
00:23:46.800 start publishing academic papers so quickly. But then again, since he copied all the papers and
00:23:52.140 his whole field of study is made up gibberish anyway, maybe that claim isn't actually so
00:23:55.660 implausible. I mean, there was a lot of people saying, oh, he clearly was not illiterate. He
00:23:59.680 made that up. That's like the one thing he claimed that I'm willing to believe.
00:24:04.420 He might still be illiterate. Or, I mean, he might have still been illiterate before,
00:24:10.000 you know. And yet Arde graduated high school with a certificate that requires literacy, which
00:24:14.760 seems incompatible with the idea that he couldn't read. And additionally, the New York Times just
00:24:19.380 spoke to several of Arde's classmates, as well as a speech professional who worked with him when he
00:24:23.940 was a child. They all said he could speak English and did so often. So the idea that he couldn't
00:24:30.000 speak at all until age 11, as he claimed, is absurd. There's no way that a child goes from
00:24:35.760 being unable to speak English to being fluent overnight, but he kept making that claim again
00:24:39.820 and again. Cambridge sent Artie out on a press tour to illustrate how inclusive they are. Watch.
00:24:47.140 I was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder when I was three, so a hybrid of autism,
00:24:52.040 asperger's syndrome and global development delay and i guess the it's been well kind of publicized
00:24:57.800 now but i didn't learn to speak until i was 11 and i didn't learn to read and write until i was 18.
00:25:02.900 so tell me about you being a little boy though and what was going on in your mind at that time
00:25:07.000 well i mean one of the things that i think people tend to think with neurodivergent children is that
00:25:12.880 it's a disadvantage and while i wouldn't want to trivialize the difficulties that come with that
00:25:17.820 For me, there was a beauty in the paralysis of speech, you know, not being able to be vocal and, I guess, converse with people in what is contained in a more conventional way.
00:25:29.980 I was able to absorb the world and construct my reality in a different way, really through the efforts of my mother and my friends and family around me.
00:25:39.800 Now, as a few people have pointed out, when Arday was three years old,
00:25:43.220 neither Asperger's nor Global Development Delay were formally diagnosed by the UK's National Health Service.
00:25:50.060 Global Development Delay was first used around 2003,
00:25:53.020 while Asperger's became a diagnosis in 1992, four years after Arday was that age.
00:25:58.960 So, there's a lot of reasons to doubt what he's saying,
00:26:01.780 and none of it received any mainstream pushback whatsoever.
00:26:04.900 There are also some more questionable claims in Arday's memoir,
00:26:07.680 as Sarah Didum points out on her substack.
00:26:10.300 R.D. claims that he had several tumors,
00:26:12.400 including one in his brain and one in his testicle.
00:26:17.140 He claimed he developed epilepsy
00:26:19.000 after being beaten by four people.
00:26:20.760 He says he was comatose after being hit by a car.
00:26:24.860 Some of these claims are from his memoir itself.
00:26:26.780 Others are from the book Proposal.
00:26:28.780 They're all risable and absurd
00:26:30.400 to the point of being laughably implausible taken together.
00:26:32.920 And by the way, while we're at it,
00:26:34.520 Simon and Schuster published R.D.'s memoir,
00:26:36.480 which they clearly did not fact check in any way,
00:26:40.620 that's yet another institution that totally folded
00:26:42.920 in the name of DEI and racial equity.
00:26:46.480 You know, it used to be that when you bought a nonfiction book,
00:26:48.480 an editor and fact checker had looked at it.
00:26:51.480 But that wasn't the case here.
00:26:53.080 He lied about everything from his autism
00:26:55.060 to his athletic accomplishments,
00:26:56.320 and nobody at any point in the editing process
00:26:59.060 flagged any of it.
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00:28:48.220 But for my money, the most extraordinary fairy tale from our day are the ones exposed by the Guardian of all places.
00:28:55.860 This is where it becomes evident that this guy is a fabricator on the level of Jussie Smollett.
00:29:00.480 This is where he throws away all of his credibility, what infinitesimal amount of it he had,
00:29:05.860 without even realizing it, though.
00:29:07.500 It's from an open letter that Arde wrote last summer to a minister in the government
00:29:11.080 outlining the alleged racism he experienced.
00:29:13.820 So listen to this.
00:29:15.520 Quote,
00:29:16.140 Arde claimed to have been confronted at his faculty building on two separate occasions
00:29:19.640 by a masked man threatening to harm him if he did not resign and evading detection both times.
00:29:25.780 On the second occasion, Arday said the intruder produced a knife and threatened him with it.
00:29:30.000 The intruder was not picked up by CCTV on either occasion, and no one in the faculty reported
00:29:34.760 seeing anything suspicious. Arday did not report either intrusion at the time, telling the Guardian
00:29:38.900 that after the second incident, he continued his working day and even conducted a PhD oral exam
00:29:43.840 for a student less than two hours later. He did not inform colleagues that a masked man with a
00:29:48.780 knife was in the faculty building. This is one of those lies that's so bad and so poorly thought
00:29:54.140 out that it actually stops being beneficial to the liar. It's a fake story that if it were true
00:30:01.140 would make you worse, makes you look worse, not better. Because if it's true, that means that
00:30:06.920 your colleagues and the PhD students are going to wonder why you didn't find the time to mention
00:30:12.640 the masked homicidal maniac with a knife who's roaming around campus and making threats to
00:30:18.680 murder people. It's one of those things that in most circumstances you might want to mention to
00:30:23.660 somebody, like a certain amount of urgency. But according to R.A.'s own version of events,
00:30:29.480 he kept the information to himself. He was confronted by the masked man with a knife.
00:30:35.260 He managed to escape somehow.
00:30:38.600 Maybe he repelled down a wall or did ninja karate moves or something.
00:30:45.020 We don't know, but he managed to escape.
00:30:47.240 And then he thought, well, I'm not worried about anybody else.
00:30:49.160 That's their problem.
00:30:50.480 I got away from that guy.
00:30:51.800 That's everyone else's problem.
00:30:53.280 I'm not even going to tell anybody.
00:30:56.000 And he just went about his day as if nothing happened.
00:30:58.680 Now, of course, the story is not remotely true.
00:31:00.580 I mean, it's a variation of what Jussie Smollett was doing at Fox when he wrote those letters to himself pretending to be white supremacists who wanted Fox to fire him.
00:31:09.820 But Cambridge pretended to take the lie seriously, and so the lies kept coming.
00:31:13.500 And in his open letter, Arde also claimed that mutilated animals had been sent to his parents' home and that bananas and bullets had been mailed to him.
00:31:23.440 Quote, Arday confirmed in an interview with The Guardian that the mutilated animal sent to his
00:31:27.460 family home mentioned in the open letter was a severed pig's head delivered in a large cardboard
00:31:32.540 box to his parents' home address in South London. He claimed to have intercepted the package and
00:31:37.060 immediately thrown it away, only telling the police several months later. In a subsequent
00:31:41.100 interview, he claimed the police investigated, checking with butchers in South London if they
00:31:45.120 had sold a pig, eventually finding one that had sold a whole hog on the morning the head
00:31:49.360 was left outside the family home.
00:31:51.580 When the Guardian checked those details
00:31:52.940 with the local butchers Arde named,
00:31:54.700 they said no police officer had come in
00:31:56.320 to ask them about a pig.
00:31:58.160 When asked if they were sure,
00:31:59.580 the butcher said,
00:32:00.280 that's the kind of thing we'd remember.
00:32:02.860 When the details Arde gave
00:32:04.220 about the pig's head investigation
00:32:05.940 were checked by London's Metropolitan Police,
00:32:08.320 the Guardian was told
00:32:09.140 they were categorically incorrect
00:32:10.720 and no investigation had taken place.
00:32:14.780 So Arde had fantasized a scenario
00:32:17.240 where he was being tormented
00:32:18.480 like someone who had gotten on the wrong side of Don Corleone. Of course, I will say some of
00:32:25.160 the most tender and flavorful cuts of pork are the cheeks and jowls. So it seems possible that
00:32:30.140 this white supremacist was just trying to send him a delicious meal. That could have been it.
00:32:35.120 Wait, maybe it wasn't white supremacist. Maybe it was just someone trying to do him a favor.
00:32:40.640 At least that would be a plausible theory if the white supremacist existed, which he doesn't.
00:32:46.040 As you'd expect, there's also no evidence of the bananas or bullets that were supposedly
00:32:49.760 sent to him.
00:32:51.180 Arde never took any photographs of these items when they were mailed to his house, nor did
00:32:56.300 he mention them to anyone at the time.
00:32:58.960 Like, that's the strange thing about these race hustlers, you'll notice.
00:33:02.640 You know, they're desperate to claim racism wherever they can find it. 0.94
00:33:05.500 And then one day, a white supremacist sends them a box full of bananas and bullets, and
00:33:13.360 they don't even think to snap a picture of it. 0.79
00:33:15.280 strange. When the guardian asked him about all these issues, he replied in quote,
00:33:20.740 and said, I quote, to be honest with you, I thought you just believe me. Why would I lie?
00:33:28.460 That's an extraordinary reply. That's really what he said.
00:33:32.260 You know, what he's confessing here is that he never even developed a plan for defending his
00:33:37.520 lies. Like typically a liar, you know, if he's vaguely intelligent, will be aware that his lie
00:33:44.620 might be exposed. And so come up with some kind of plan B, some sort of defense, some sort of
00:33:50.020 deflection, like the guy cheating with his secretary hopes that his wife won't notice
00:33:55.120 the motel room charge on the credit card. But if she does, well, he's ready to claim that he
00:34:00.820 generously rented a room for a hypothermic homeless man that he found huddled on the
00:34:04.880 sidewalk or something. What he won't say if the room charge is raised is, oh, I didn't think
00:34:10.100 you'd ask me about that. Oh, you want to know what I was doing in the motel? Honestly, I didn't
00:34:14.940 think you'd ask me. That's it. Anyway, what do you want for dinner? So in this case, we're dealing
00:34:23.500 with someone so narcissistic and so profoundly stupid that he simply thought he could make up 1.00
00:34:28.100 whatever he wanted and nobody would question him or his motivations. And the really shameful and 1.00
00:34:33.560 pathetic thing is that actually he was right, at least for a while. But here's the amazing thing. 0.85
00:34:39.060 Even if Arde hadn't plagiarized anything, and even if he'd never lied about his life story,
00:34:44.700 there would still be no reason to hire him at Cambridge or anywhere else. It would still be
00:34:48.380 a scandal that he got hired in the first place. Everything we've talked about up to this point
00:34:52.340 relates to unethical or criminal conduct that should have disqualified him from employment
00:34:57.080 at any university, regardless of how talented he was and regardless of how much research he was
00:35:02.720 doing. But even if you forget about everything I've said, his credentials are still non-existent.
00:35:08.360 So this is from the New York Times. Quote, when Cambridge University interviewed Jason Arday for one of the most prestigious sociology positions in the world, he was an early career scholar and underqualified by the school's own standards.
00:35:20.640 Cambridge's requirements, reviewed by the New York Times, called for an outstanding research record of international stature and a proven successful track record supervising PhD students.
00:35:30.380 Dr. Arday had a modest publication record and had bounced from one university to the next,
00:35:35.740 not staying long enough to oversee a full three-year or more doctorate. Cambridge hired him
00:35:40.420 anyway in 2023. So this is one of the key points that needs to be made here. The plagiarism is not
00:35:47.460 the biggest issue. It's extremely unethical and everybody involved should be terminated, sure,
00:35:52.920 but the bigger problem is that all of academia is fraudulent. They have no standards for anything.
00:36:00.860 It's all a ruse. The average Cambridge faculty member is no more worthwhile than Jason Arday.
00:36:06.660 They give themselves awards and titles, but there are no standards, particularly when it comes to
00:36:12.880 non-white candidates. As the evidence of Arday's plagiarism and fabricated stories began to
00:36:18.440 circulate, his former students came forward to describe him as a terrible teacher on top of
00:36:23.500 everything else. So this is from one of Arde's former students at another school, the University
00:36:28.980 of Roe-Hampton. Quote, in the end, Arde gave me 70% from my essay, particularly as Arde had given
00:36:34.620 my work no feedback. I asked for a meeting. At Roe-Hampton, marking is blind, so he wouldn't
00:36:40.680 have known who'd written which essay. In our meeting, I explained that 70% was a low mark for
00:36:46.120 me and asked him to provide feedback. Suddenly, his friendly, confident demeanor changed. I now
00:36:51.120 saw a side of him I'd never seen before, angry but also scared. R.A. implied that I was racist
00:36:56.360 and said that the only reason I wasn't happy with 70% was due to my white privilege.
00:37:01.260 He was clearly upset at being questioned, and I ended the meeting as quickly as possible.
00:37:06.700 Now, we should say this student who's making these claims is anonymous. The Times in London
00:37:11.220 said they verified the student's identity, but it's pretty remarkable that he can't simply come
00:37:15.180 out in public with his own name on the op-ed. Even now, after our day has been clearly exposed
00:37:21.480 as a fraud, it's still career suicide to speak out against him. Cambridge has put out multiple
00:37:27.300 statements denouncing the vile campaign against our day. The midterm elections are heating up,
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00:38:14.560 more information, see calci.com slash regulatory. And indeed, now that our day has taken his own
00:38:19.680 life, as predicted, black activists are claiming that white racists are responsible. So here's 0.98
00:38:25.800 one such analysis from somebody calling herself Dr. Shola Moss Shagbamimu. Shagbamimu. That's
00:38:34.940 her name beautiful name uh watch this is exactly what you wanted to achieve i told you i knew you 0.97
00:38:43.680 wanted to kill him or get him killed i hope you are all satisfied now every single one of you 1.00
00:38:49.620 bloody evil racist you white supremacist waste of freaking human space those of you who jumped 1.00
00:38:56.440 on this bandwagon to publicly execute him for what who held him to a different standard that 1.00
00:39:03.780 you hold white people and may you all get exactly what you deserve every single thing you did in
00:39:10.400 this last two weeks every single one of you that took pleasure and glee this is exactly what you 1.00
00:39:16.940 wanted you wanted to kill him and get him killed i hope to god you get everything that you have 1.00
00:39:23.780 coming to you. Are you happy now? Are you happy now? Are you satisfied? You should all be ashamed 0.98
00:39:34.600 of yourselves, every single one of you. You are murderers. You are killers. 1.00
00:39:43.500 Are you happy now? Shogba Mimu asks, are you happy? Well, I can't speak for anyone else, 0.99
00:39:49.440 but I'll say that I'm not happy. No part of this story makes me happy, but I also feel no pity for
00:39:56.520 this guy at all, especially now that he's dead. Because of all the selfish, evil, pathetic things 0.99
00:40:04.260 this man did, and his was a life filled with selfish, evil, pathetic things, the manner of his 1.00
00:40:11.060 death surpasses all of it. Now, if you're looking for an explanation as to the psychology behind why
00:40:18.900 Jason Arday took the coward's way out, here's your answer. He was a committed pathological
00:40:24.500 narcissist to the very end. And he decided that rather than live with the consequences of his
00:40:29.060 actions, he wanted to go out as a victim, as a kind of perverse hero for the swarms of black 0.98
00:40:34.000 activists who are always looking for a reason to attack whites. And that's exactly what he's become. 0.97
00:40:39.520 Predictable. There's even going to be a march today in Trafalgar Square entitled Vigil for
00:40:45.060 Jason Arday, stand against racist witch hunts. Because, of course, you see, when you report on
00:40:51.660 black fraudsters, the only conceivable reason for doing so is that you hate black people. 0.99
00:40:57.300 The implication is that this would never happen to a white guy in academia. But actually, 1.00
00:41:01.960 white men in academia have had their lives destroyed for far less.
00:41:06.880 Strangely enough, to give just one example, there were no marches against racist witch hunts for a
00:41:11.820 white school principal in Toronto named Richard Bilksow, who killed himself in 2023. And what was
00:41:18.380 his crime? Well, he dared to suggest during a DEI struggle session that Canada is not a racist
00:41:23.280 country. And for that crime, he was publicly reprimanded by the superintendent and relentlessly
00:41:28.540 accused of white supremacy by his colleagues. He was branded a racist all over social media,
00:41:34.000 and eventually he killed himself. Now, Richard Biltzka was not a career fraudster or a criminal
00:41:42.200 or a plagiarist. He was a white principal who dared to question the wisdom of anti-white 0.90
00:41:46.700 propaganda, which he questioned very mildly, by the way. So they destroyed his reputation
00:41:52.200 and his career. But he doesn't get any marches or any remembrance. The communists are glad he's
00:41:58.460 dead. They celebrated his suicide on social media. The reason Jason Arday is different is that he's 0.99
00:42:04.760 black. And if people dwell on his fraud too much, they might realize that the underlying rationale 0.86
00:42:09.340 of DEI is a complete lie. Not to be outdone, the grandmaster of racial grifting himself,
00:42:15.640 Ibram X. Kendi, whose real name is Henry Rogers, has decided to weigh in. And that's not surprising
00:42:23.220 because as you can see here, Arde and Henry Rogers went to the same DEI stylist to really 0.55
00:42:29.000 nail the whole like serious but exotic vibe that drives white women crazy. And they have something
00:42:36.320 else in common too. They're both fraudsters. Henry Rogers' anti-racism center at Boston 0.98
00:42:40.960 University was shut down after burning through tens of millions of dollars, which no one can
00:42:45.640 trace. And beyond telling black people that they should be racist against whites, Rogers struggled
00:42:50.080 to articulate any coherent thoughts whatsoever. And now this same Henry Rogers, a.k.a. Ibram X 0.76
00:42:56.200 Kendi, is declaring that despite what it looks like, Jason Arday was in fact murdered. Henry
00:43:01.620 just wrote a piece entitled, The Media Lynched Jason Arday. And here's how he introduced it.
00:43:07.540 Quote, The death of Jason Arday hit so close to home that I had no words yesterday, but I woke up
00:43:12.840 with words. To be a prominent anti-racist black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally
00:43:19.220 surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob,
00:43:24.700 and if you die from all the attacks, the media still calls the attacks on you
00:43:27.980 accusations to wash their hands of the blood. Your lynchers announce your death as if they
00:43:33.840 had no role in your lynching. Well, Henry, the reason this hits so close to home is that you
00:43:40.380 are a despicable fraud also. You have every incentive to accuse our day's critics of murder 0.98
00:43:45.880 right now because you're desperate to avoid scrutiny yourself. You are an anti-racist
00:43:51.360 expert who can't even define the word racism. It's like a veterinarian who doesn't know what
00:43:56.560 an animal is. If you never saw this, it's from the so-called Aspen Ideas Festival a few years ago.
00:44:02.860 Other than watching Am I Racist? It's the best possible way to sum up the fraud that is Henry
00:44:08.720 Rogers as well as the entire DEI grift in general. Watch. You talked about the importance of defining
00:44:15.980 racism. How do you define racism? Sure. So racism, I would define it as a collection
00:44:22.460 of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas.
00:44:30.560 sure a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated
00:44:44.920 by racist ideas and anti-racism is a pretty simple using the same terms anti-racism is a
00:44:53.180 collection of anti-racist policies leading to racial anybody want to take guess equity
00:44:58.140 that are substantiated by anti-racist ideas so uh you know racism is when you're racist
00:45:05.180 anti-racism is when you're not racist
00:45:07.740 uh racist policies are what is a racist policy well you know racist policy is uh it's a racist
00:45:15.320 policy any questions i guess the one thing you can say in defense of henry rogers at least is
00:45:22.740 that he probably didn't plagiarize any of that if he was going to copy somebody else's work it
00:45:28.140 would have probably made sense, or maybe not, as we saw with our day. Maybe even that was
00:45:34.440 plagiarized. We should look into that. Henry Rogers' alleged scholarship is so idiotic that
00:45:40.160 it could only come from the mind of the single dumbest person in the DEI industry, which is 1.00
00:45:45.700 Henry Rogers himself. In the article defending our day, Rogers states that, quote, the attacks 0.96
00:45:50.860 are wielded by racist propagandists resenting you for shining a light on anti-Black racism.
00:45:56.160 They hope everyone finally picks up their baseless claims. 0.95
00:46:00.220 They know that to dim your light is to dim the light on their anti-blackness.
00:46:04.740 In 2023, only the Financial Times covered extensively that William O'Reilly, a white Cambridge professor, was found guilty of plagiarism.
00:46:11.940 All told, a black Cambridge professor endured 249 times more media coverage for an accusation of plagiarism by a known racist.
00:46:20.100 Well, I went and looked up this story.
00:46:22.140 First of all, William O'Reilly was not presented by Cambridge as the leader in his field.
00:46:27.280 They didn't send him out to every mainstream media outlet to do a puff piece on his appointment.
00:46:32.480 Nor did he lie about every single aspect of his biography to an absurd degree.
00:46:37.780 And Cambridge didn't suspend all of their alleged standards in order to hire him in the first place.
00:46:42.100 Nor did they give him any kind of preferential treatment because of his skin color.
00:46:44.860 So it shouldn't be surprising that there's more media attention on our day.
00:46:48.840 someone Cambridge deliberately chose to turn into a star solely on the basis of his skin color.
00:46:54.960 When an institution like Cambridge decides to discriminate against more qualified applicants
00:46:58.840 in such a flagrant manner on the basis of race, that is a much bigger story than one
00:47:04.700 random professor plagiarizing a couple of paragraphs. And most importantly, from what I
00:47:09.480 can tell, there was a single paper that O'Reilly plagiarized from his students' work. A tribunal
00:47:15.540 determined that his plagiarism was negligent rather than deliberate. And while that's still
00:47:20.400 bad and he should be fired for it, there's been no finding that he plagiarized every important
00:47:25.540 academic paper he ever wrote. If you've never read the Odyssey, the basic premise is pretty
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00:48:02.520 down. He would rather go home to his wife and resume his ordinary life than live forever in
00:48:07.680 paradise. Apparently, Homer was writing this before avoiding responsibility became a virtue.
00:48:12.440 That's really the point.
00:48:13.240 Odysseus understands something that we seem to have forgotten.
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00:49:57.520 So the scale of plagiarism is nowhere close to Jason Arden.
00:50:02.960 And also, by the way, white people were not rallying around this guy to defend him and to accuse his critics of racism.
00:50:13.960 That happened in this case, which makes it an even bigger story.
00:50:18.200 And it's a bigger story because it's a controversy.
00:50:20.640 It's something the left never understands.
00:50:22.620 When somebody is accused of doing something bad and everyone says, oh, yeah, they did that bad thing.
00:50:28.520 Like, yeah, sure, that was bad.
00:50:30.280 Yeah, he plagiarized.
00:50:31.000 He shouldn't have done that.
00:50:31.540 he shouldn't be fired. Okay. When that happens, there's really no, there's nothing else to say,
00:50:36.420 like the story's over. But when you have someone who's accused of doing something bad and they did
00:50:41.300 do the bad thing and you've got mobs of people flanking them, surrounding them to protect them
00:50:47.400 and claiming that actually this bad thing isn't bad or it's okay in his case or whatever,
00:50:52.660 that makes it a controversy. And so then the controversy itself turns into the story.
00:50:58.060 now one of the main tactics that our day's defenders are using is to minimize all these
00:51:03.740 details they don't want to talk about what our day actually did instead they want to speak in
00:51:07.100 very general terms to convince people that he was lynched somehow so here's pbs anchor and nbc
00:51:12.560 contributor jeff bennett for instance taking an issue with the new york times reporting
00:51:16.460 on our day's fraud quote a man dies at 41 after weeks of relentless public scrutiny
00:51:21.620 the new york times the next day says he was underqualified for his job whatever the merits
00:51:26.640 of the underlying questions,
00:51:28.360 publishing this now is ghoulish.
00:51:31.800 First of all,
00:51:32.940 spare me the whining
00:51:34.000 about public scrutiny.
00:51:36.040 Okay, I've faced public scrutiny
00:51:37.740 plenty of times.
00:51:38.720 It comes with the territory
00:51:39.500 in any prominent position these days.
00:51:42.060 You can't run around
00:51:43.000 doing media interviews,
00:51:44.580 trying to get your face on camera
00:51:45.900 as much as possible,
00:51:47.120 doing and saying things
00:51:48.300 and making claims
00:51:48.960 clearly designed to attract attention
00:51:51.240 and then cry like a baby
00:51:53.760 when the public scrutiny comes.
00:51:56.640 You literally asked for it. Now it's here. Stand up like a man and take it.
00:52:04.660 But Jason Arde was no man at all. And just based on this tweet alone, this Jeff guy
00:52:09.280 should be fired from PBS and whatever other news organization he works for.
00:52:13.340 He can't have anybody working for a news organization who's willing to misrepresent
00:52:17.000 basic facts like this. No, the Times did not say he was underqualified. They also said he was a,
00:52:21.680 they didn't just say that, they also said he was a serial liar and plagiarist. 0.93
00:52:25.700 And no, R.D. was not just a random man. 0.93
00:52:28.740 He was a professor at a major university that collects taxpayer money, a university that
00:52:34.280 has an international reputation.
00:52:35.740 He's emblematic of a much larger DEI regime that operates in the vast majority of universities
00:52:42.860 and workplaces all over the world.
00:52:45.320 So if a journalist is going to ignore all of this, then he should quit and go work in
00:52:50.660 communications for the NAACP or something.
00:52:52.560 i mean it's disgraceful here's another take along these lines from the podcast of one kahinde
00:53:00.260 andrews watch there's a metaphor we cheap and lynching so i didn't use it last week it's like
00:53:07.260 last week is public storm it was a metaphorically lynching now it's just a lynching man's dead
00:53:13.140 because of the press because of the media because of this campaign and because people including
00:53:21.360 cambridge but not just cambridge didn't support him that's the reality that we have to bear here
00:53:27.000 and so i've been getting a lot of phone calls from obviously from press press who's still
00:53:30.760 handing him by the way press outside his parents house man's dead outside his parents house were
00:53:36.400 they trying to get a picture of like a picture of the mom like leave him alone stop enough is
00:53:40.440 enough honestly but they just can't stop right like a feeding frenzy you have to talk accountability
00:53:45.600 like this didn't just happen in a vacuum this happened for many many many reasons and there is
00:53:51.840 a whole lot of shame shame pie if you like to go around this was a mob this was a smear this was
00:53:57.760 vile tactics and instead of seeing that many of us looked away and said oh no no i'm not sure
00:54:03.400 in fact instead of seeing that many of us man's being lynched and we're there checking his
00:54:07.740 credentials say hold on a second should we support him it's a bizarre what's it respectability
00:54:13.160 politics because you couldn't just see what was happening and back case. Now you've got a lot of
00:54:17.520 people coming out supporting. That's enough of that. I really understand them. The effect of
00:54:22.880 clips like this should be to make you go back and take another look at the reports of lynchings that
00:54:28.060 you learn about in high school. Now, these black activists are describing legitimate lawful
00:54:33.760 criticism as a lynching. They're saying that if you challenge a fraudulent black academic by 0.97
00:54:39.960 pointing out that he's a liar and a fraud, which he is, then you are lynching him. And if that's 1.00
00:54:45.860 the case, we should revisit every single alleged lynching that we're told took place during this
00:54:51.400 country's history. I mean, how many of those were just light criticisms? How many of those were
00:54:58.820 justified responses to heinous crimes? If this is a lynching, then we have no choice. We have to go
00:55:05.900 back and look at, okay, if that's what you mean when you say lynching, then what was going on
00:55:10.980 back here? And you're not crazy for asking that question based on how these people lie to your
00:55:15.440 face all the time, particularly about lynchings. Every single time they try to claim somebody was
00:55:20.080 lynched, it turns out to be a completely fake story. So they don't get to talk about lynching
00:55:24.780 anymore. And if they don't like it, tough. This is what happens when you devalue the meaning of
00:55:30.820 word, which is what the left does incessantly. Here's another post with thousands of likes from
00:55:36.520 somebody using the name Nels Abbey. Quote, white supremacy killed Jason Arday. Murdered him.
00:55:45.060 Exposed, criticized, murdered. What's the difference, right? There's even a petition
00:55:50.840 with tens of thousands of signatures, including faculty members at Cambridge and members of the
00:55:55.020 British government demanding a government investigation into the media because, quote,
00:55:59.720 self-regulation of the press has comprehensively failed. So they're begging for media censorship
00:56:06.480 because the media reported the truth about a black fraudster. We respectfully ask you to
00:56:11.900 commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution
00:56:18.000 to Dr. Arday's tragic death. Consider how far the West has fallen in order for tens of thousands of
00:56:25.300 people in a Western country to demand government action to silence people for telling the truth
00:56:31.440 about anything, much less DEI, which is another word for anti-white discrimination.
00:56:38.160 You know, it's easy to criticize the United States, but we're the only Western country that
00:56:41.520 still respects the freedom of speech by and large. And it's extraordinary just how far
00:56:46.960 everybody else has fallen. Now to be clear, these unhinged tirades are not simply being
00:56:52.180 directed at vague targets like the media or white supremacy. Some of the most vicious attacks have
00:56:58.060 been leveled personally at Nathan Coughness, the former Cambridge academic who's exposed Arde's
00:57:03.640 fraud. You can see a few of the threats he's received on the screen. There's been a lot of it.
00:57:08.480 He's getting hundreds of explicit death threats solely for reporting accurate information that
00:57:13.880 led to the downfall of a scam artist. And by the way, there's a great rundown of Nathan Coughness's
00:57:19.640 Academic Achievements that was published in Quillette the other day. He was kind of a rock
00:57:24.820 star at Cambridge, and he was on the fast track to much bigger things. And then he made the argument
00:57:30.080 that, quote, genes play a non-trivial role in average race differences in traits such as
00:57:36.360 intelligence. Now, this is a belief that, according to anonymous surveys, more than 80% of experts in
00:57:43.280 the field agree with. It's also obviously true. But even at a university, a place supposedly
00:57:49.640 dedicated to exploring and debating controversial ideas, this was an intolerable thing to say.
00:57:56.660 So they showed him the door. And then as if to prove his point, Cambridge turned around and
00:58:01.080 promoted incompetent, unqualified, unintelligent black fraudsters like Jason Arde. I need to 1.00
00:58:08.320 emphasize that last point because it doesn't get stated nearly enough. If you were interested in
00:58:12.560 disproving the idea that genetics and race and intelligence could possibly be linked,
00:58:17.600 then the worst thing you can do is silence any debate on the subject while simultaneously
00:58:22.660 practicing DEI. I mean, it's as if Cambridge is secretly run by white supremacists. 0.94
00:58:30.220 I mean, on the one hand, you have Nathan Kovnus, an early career academic who's making an argument
00:58:34.660 based on decades of peer-reviewed research. He's echoing the position of James Watson,
00:58:40.540 who co-discovered the DNA double helix structure.
00:58:43.900 He's taking an enormous personal risk
00:58:46.340 to say something he believes is true.
00:58:48.480 On the other side,
00:58:49.580 instead of debating with Nathan Kovnitz in any way, 0.99
00:58:52.880 you have these absolute clowns who silence him 1.00
00:58:55.180 while promoting degenerate losers like Jason Arday, 1.00
00:58:57.540 all while claiming he's the single best black scholar 0.99
00:59:01.100 you could have possibly found.
00:59:04.140 That's not how you win the argument.
00:59:05.640 It's not how you maintain any kind of legitimacy.
00:59:08.740 presidency. Instead, it's how you concede Nathan Coftus's point. You're making his argument for
00:59:15.280 him. And by the way, just since we're on the subject, it is a simple fact that there are
00:59:20.420 average IQ differences between races. That is a fact. Doesn't matter how you feel about it. It's
00:59:24.840 true. No credible person denies that. Lots of people who aren't credible do, but no credible
00:59:30.040 person does. And the idea that genetics have absolutely nothing to do with those differences
00:59:34.960 is just absurd on its face. Of course, there's some genetic, there's no reason to deny the
00:59:40.080 genetic component, except if you're worried about the societal implications of that. But
00:59:45.360 societal implications, whatever they may be or may not be, have nothing to do with the question
00:59:51.240 of whether or not it's factually true. And it is factually true. Keep in mind, according to
00:59:58.640 Harvard's own internal 2013 analysis, which was disclosed in litigation, black enrollment at
01:00:03.400 Harvard would drop to less than 1% if the admissions office stopped practicing anti-white
01:00:09.080 discrimination, otherwise known as affirmative action, and if they judged candidates based on
01:00:13.640 academic merit alone. With the discrimination, Black enrollment was around 14%. So Covnis is
01:00:21.460 obviously correct that universities to this day are giving an enormous benefit to Black applicants,
01:00:27.240 although they can't articulate why exactly they're doing that. This is very much a live issue. This
01:00:32.960 kind of discrimination has continued even after the Supreme Court ruled that Harvard's affirmative
01:00:37.400 action is unconstitutional. So we should be able to debate issues like this without fear of being
01:00:43.200 silenced or terminated. Instead, leftist academics are shutting down any kind of dialogue, even as
01:00:49.260 they're openly selecting students and faculty solely on the basis of race. And in the process,
01:00:54.420 they're destroying what is left of the education system. This is an extraordinary op-ed that was
01:00:59.600 just published in the San Francisco Standard. It's written by a calculus teacher at Berkeley,
01:01:03.560 one of the top universities in the nation, allegedly. Quote, I teach mathematics at UC
01:01:08.980 Berkeley. Three days a week, I stand in front of lecture halls with 500 to 1,400 students.
01:01:14.120 By the second week of the semester, I already know who's in trouble. Some students are five
01:01:18.760 to eight years behind in mathematics. Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals
01:01:23.380 instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in
01:01:29.180 middle school. Now, the professor notes that from 2018 to 2020, more than 70% of students at Berkeley
01:01:36.820 tested as ready or nearly ready for calculus prior to enrolling in calculus class. After Berkeley
01:01:44.000 changed its admissions policies so that standardized tests were no longer relevant,
01:01:48.860 that number dropped all the way down to 44%. So in other words, in the quest to achieve equity,
01:01:56.240 Major universities, students and faculty have become dramatically less capable and intelligent all over the world.
01:02:03.580 We all knew this was happening, of course, but it's notable that a San Francisco newspaper and a Berkeley professor, of all people, are coming out and admitting it.
01:02:13.200 It's a big change from just a few years ago.
01:02:16.420 DEI has become an embarrassment to every institution that practices it.
01:02:19.900 so despite what cambridge and henry rogers and other black activists are trying to say about
01:02:25.680 jason arday the truth is most people are not falling for it dei was always bound to lead to
01:02:33.260 increasingly bizarre and humiliating outcomes because by its very nature it only selects for
01:02:38.060 candidates who are both unqualified and shameless and after all you have to be totally shameless to
01:02:43.180 accept accolades that you clearly don't deserve and as dei's reputation circles the drain an even 0.76
01:02:49.320 greater degree of shamelessness is required to participate in the sham. So we'll continue to get
01:02:56.060 more and more stories like Jason Arde's, except somehow they'll be even more absurd and
01:03:00.700 unbelievable. The insanity will have to ratchet up even further. This is what the death throes
01:03:08.360 of DEI looks like. Just a few years ago when we produced Am I Racist, this moment seemed many
01:03:13.900 years off, maybe even decades. But with the comically preposterous rise and fall of Jason
01:03:20.100 Arday and the subsequent freakout by deranged black activists, it's fair to say that the fall 0.91
01:03:26.400 of DEI is already upon us. Or as Jason Arday might've said, if he were still with us, observing 0.57
01:03:34.200 the public humiliation of a once great university because of his own rampant dishonesty, now I am
01:03:40.520 become death, the destroyer of DEI. And people would say, wait, Jason, are you quoting Oppenheimer,
01:03:48.480 Hindu scripture? And he'd respond that no, he was being totally original.
01:03:53.400 Completely thought of that line himself this morning when he was brushing his teeth.
01:03:58.220 And somewhere in a faculty lounge deep in the bowels of Cambridge University, a white liberal
01:04:02.600 woman would break down to tears at the sheer originality of Jason Arde, the premier Cambridge
01:04:07.480 academic, the exemplar of everything academia stands for, taken from us far too soon.
01:04:16.180 Now, before we go, we just finished a real history episode on the Watergate scandal. There's a lot
01:04:20.820 of information in it. Like when the FBI went into the Watergate complex to check for bugs after the
01:04:26.320 break-in, they didn't find any. One of the burglars apparently had access to the DNC offices.
01:04:31.540 Another had a key to the desk inside. All of them were connected to the CIA. All of that and a lot
01:04:37.320 more is in this episode, which you have to see. It comes out for all Daily Wire subscribers on
01:04:40.900 Wednesday. Here's the trailer. In all of my years of public life, I have never profited from public
01:04:49.260 service. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not
01:04:54.500 their president's a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. For more than five decades, from Iran-Contra to
01:05:00.120 Monica Lewinsky to Russiagate, every political scandal has been measured against one, the
01:05:04.960 Watergate affair. But what if Richard Nixon was telling the truth? What if
01:05:09.580 Watergate isn't what it seems? What if hundreds of thousands of pages of sworn
01:05:14.020 testimony, memoirs, and newly released government documents tell a different
01:05:18.280 story than the one you learned in school? In 1972, Nixon won the biggest electoral
01:05:24.320 landslide in modern American history with grand plans to remake the federal
01:05:28.540 government. Two years later, he was out of office. You were taught that Nixon's
01:05:32.920 men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to spy on his
01:05:36.600 political opponents. You were taught that when he found out, Nixon covered it up,
01:05:41.300 and that the cover-up was worse than the crime. You were taught that two heroic
01:05:46.840 Washington Post reporters, guided by a righteous FBI whistleblower, brought the
01:05:51.980 most powerful man in the world to justice. But you were never taught what really happened.
01:05:56.800 I shall resign the presidency, effective at noon tomorrow.
01:05:59.800 The Real History of the Watergate Scandal is available now on Daily Wire+.
01:06:04.200 You got to watch the episode. You don't want to miss it. You're going to learn a lot.
01:06:11.800 Lifetime and All Access members get early access and can watch right now, though, so go do that.
01:06:16.980 And in the meantime, have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.
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01:06:53.180 He's the polar opposite of those brain-dead protesters.
01:06:56.220 Given the current climate, should Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
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