ChatGPT counts 46 organizations that had formal ties with Jason Arday including - Durham University (associate prof) - Glasgow (full professor) - British Sociological Association (director) - Royal Society of Arts (fellow) - BBC (guest editor) In 2023, the Guardian itself (!) published a breathless article titled “Jason Arday: he learned to talk at 11 and read at 18 – then became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor.” More than a dozen academic journals gave the imprimatur of “peer review” to Arday’s plagiarized wokebabble. The prestigious NY publisher Simon & Schuster is still going ahead with his memoirs. Now the Guardian wants us to think this is just about “one academic and his bosses at Cambridge”? There are thousands of Jason Ardays in universities all over the Western world. The only thing special about Arday is that he took the plagiarism and lies about his personal life too far, so there was a hook for a news story. But even that wasn’t enough to get him removed from academia. Until last Wednesday Cambridge was still smearing his critics as waging a “vile campaign.” He crossed the line not by being an incompetent fraud, but by claiming prestigious affiliations that he didn’t have, creating conflict between Cambridge and other universities. “DEI” means achieving representation by doing away with elementary standards for certain people based on race. Just take a look at the content of “peer-reviewed” journals like Whiteness in Education and Educational Philosophy and Theory. The other papers in these journals are just like those written by Arday—someone who is now widely recognized to be mentally disabled. The people trying to write this off as a fluke or an isolated case of “research misconduct” are at best delusional. The ideology of elite institutions is DEI, and DEI is Jason Arday.