The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - August 15, 2026


Did Systemic Structural Racism Result in Jason Arday's Suicide? (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1032)


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00:00:00.000 Hi everybody, this is Gatsad. As many of you might have heard by now, Jason Arde, the individual who
00:00:07.940 recently resigned from Cambridge University for having allegedly plagiarized much of his
00:00:16.320 dissertation, plagiarized many of his papers, lied in fantastical ways about his life history,
00:00:23.720 committed suicide. Of course, the first thing you need to say at this point is, you know,
00:00:32.620 our thoughts and prayers are indeed with his family. He was loved by people that are close
00:00:38.400 to him. It is tragic when an individual passes away. But the issue now is to look at some
00:00:48.100 of the reactions post his demise. And that really says a lot about where we are in society. So I
00:00:58.100 put up the following post yesterday. Someone mentioned that it was suicidal empathy that
00:01:05.320 took place. And so I responded, suicidal empathy, indeed, it is tragic. But this is what happens
00:01:11.500 when you allow a complete breakdown of reality, meritocracy and truth, because the perpetrator
00:01:17.300 of the fraud was of a, quote, marginalized class. It was precisely the token racism of the white
00:01:25.260 progressives that allowed this to happen. The blame lies with them for creating the ecosystem
00:01:30.900 that permitted for this debacle to take place. There is no freedom without personal agency,
00:01:36.680 without a sense of individual dignity and earned merit. Once you allow people to game the entire
00:01:44.200 academic enterprise due to your progressive and enlightened suicidal empathy, it leads to ugly
00:01:50.140 outcomes. May he rest in peace. So then yesterday at night, I saw my good friend. He's been on my
00:02:00.280 show a few times. One of the loveliest people that you could ever hope to meet, Asim Malhotra,
00:02:07.580 who is a British cardiologist, write the following.
00:02:12.280 I'm saddened by this beyond words.
00:02:14.520 I'm also disgusted by the white supremacist colonialists
00:02:18.980 who deliberately amplified the mistakes of a black man
00:02:22.780 whilst ignoring the systemic structural racism
00:02:26.300 that's the much bigger issue that supersedes by orders of magnitude
00:02:31.580 the injustice of, quote, wokeism.
00:02:37.580 This is arguably one of the most shocking responses that I've ever seen from someone whom I thought I understood the way that he thinks and whom I, as I said, I invited on his show because he doesn't buckle down to orthodoxy and so on and so forth.
00:02:57.240 So I wrote, Dear Dr. Asim Malhotra, are you being sarcastic? It is tragic that a man committed
00:03:02.400 suicide, but this debacle was of his doing. It has nothing to do with, quote, systemic structural
00:03:09.560 racism. It was DI, diversity, inclusion, and equity that led to his death. Blame DI and not,
00:03:16.280 quote, racism. Come on, brother. And so he replies today, Hi, Gad. He misspells Gad. It's only one A.
00:03:24.540 not sarcastic at all in fact I'll double down now as a person who has suffered structural racism all
00:03:31.420 his life read my words carefully again it has everything to do with it both directly and
00:03:36.480 indirectly happy to debate with this with anyone any place and anytime all right so let's analyze
00:03:45.900 this. I've repeatedly explained that one of the most important mindsets for either having a
00:03:55.740 successful life or not is to be able to attribute causality in your life and in general. Was the
00:04:05.320 success that you just achieved due to your doings or was it due to luck? Was it due to favoritism?
00:04:13.680 similarly were the failures due to your actions were they due to quote structural racism
00:04:22.600 and so on now most people as i've explained previously attribute successes internally
00:04:29.660 i'm very smart i did very well on the exam because i'm very smart and attribute failures
00:04:35.220 externally i did poorly on the exam because professor sad is a jerk he's unfair
00:04:40.060 now in this case Jason Arday engaged not in one act two acts 10 acts 50 acts his entire academic
00:04:51.220 career leading to him being at one of the most prestigious universities in the world
00:04:56.420 where Sir Isaac Newton held a chaired professorship his entire career was fraudulent his entire life
00:05:06.400 history was fraudulent. So therefore, does he have the personal agency that we can ascribe to him
00:05:15.740 so that we can put the blame on what ended up happening being on him? Well, according to Dr.
00:05:23.160 Malhotra, no. People are amplifying just some mistakes that a black man did, and it is that
00:05:31.820 amplification that resulted in the guy committing suicide. I mean the guy just made a mistake and
00:05:39.340 now we all ganged up on him. So Jason Arday should not be judged apparently as would other people
00:05:48.560 who engage in a hundredth of the fraud that he engaged in. Because Jason Arday has a skin you
00:05:56.640 that magically protects him. He should not be held accountable for his actions.
00:06:03.740 Now, Jason Arday ended up committing suicide. I can't say that I was inside his brain and
00:06:11.160 studied every one of his neural firings, but I can certainly surmise the trajectory that led
00:06:21.780 to him committing suicide, and that is he's built an entire career rooted in garnering the empathy
00:06:31.540 of people. But by the way, it wasn't just that. He would send out the cops, right? I mean, he was
00:06:40.240 diabolical in how he tried to shut down those who tried to criticize him, who tried to scrutinize him.
00:06:52.540 That would have led to the end of their careers because you're not allowed to somehow question
00:07:00.460 him because he's black and he is neurodivergent and therefore he is untouchable. It is blasphemous
00:07:08.740 to question him. And so what shocks me about Dr. Malhotra, again, whom I respect and have great
00:07:19.260 affection for, is that he concludes that what should trigger his ire is the systemic structural
00:07:29.880 racism that led to Jason Arde's demise. So I posted earlier today, this is often something
00:07:38.820 that is used in consumer psychology where you're trying to understand people's, how they weigh
00:07:43.360 different attributes or making a decision. If I were to ask you to allocate a hundred points
00:07:50.820 to capture the extent to which various factors affected the suicide of Jason Arde,
00:07:59.060 how much would you allocate to Jason Arde's behaviors fraudulent scamming plagiarism
00:08:09.380 how much would you attribute to all of the white progressive liberals who allowed this to take
00:08:17.100 place and how much would you attribute it to what Dr. Malhotra said is systemic structural racism
00:08:24.500 Yes, there is systemic structural racism and it's against white heterosexual men, right?
00:08:33.460 It is the fact that Jason Arde was taken as the token poster child to show that we are
00:08:39.960 progressive at Cambridge University that allowed this gargantuan, impossible to imagine fraud
00:08:49.020 to be perpetuated for so many years.
00:08:52.180 I mean, Jason Arde discovered the theory of evolution. He also defeated the Nazis. Plus, he wasn't able to speak until the day of his doctoral dissertation because of his neurodivergent reality.
00:09:09.140 plus he he's the one who killed bin Laden plus he won the world cup more than Lionel Messi
00:09:16.280 plus he is the one who solved the polio virus it wasn't Jonas Salk he Jonas Salk stole it from
00:09:26.600 are they yes I'm being sarcastic because what I just said maybe understates the extent to which
00:09:34.020 this guy's life was built on a fraudulent facade. But Asim Malhatra believes that
00:09:45.060 it is structural, systemic structural racism that led to Jason Arde's demise. He is not,
00:09:55.520 he meaning Arde, is not the culprit here. He's the victim of a vile racist society.
00:10:04.020 So the same society that elevated this black man who has the credentials of my socks,
00:10:10.660 who elevated him to the most prestigious positions in one of the most prestigious universities,
00:10:18.120 that proves that Cambridge University is racist because it led to his demise.
00:10:28.000 I am utterly baffled. I don't know what to say. Take care, everybody.