COLUMN • Jason Arday’s spectacular rise and tragic fall is more than the story of a pathological liar who managed to become a professor at Cambridge. For Samnytt’s Jonas Andersson, the case shows what happens when Western universities abandon their most important mission – the search for truth – in favor of ideology, identity, and the perfect narrative.
The Jason Arday case is tragic on so many levels. A spectacular mythomaniac, plagiarist, and fraud managed to become a professor at one of the world’s most renowned universities – Cambridge. Why?
Because he was black – and fit perfectly as a figurehead for all the left-liberal women who today govern this and so many other humanities institutions at Western universities.
Women – yes, there are also some men – who for decades have been filled with pseudoscientific sham theories about power hierarchies, postcolonial delusions, hatred of the West, and “white privilege.”
Satiated with postmodern and structuralist truth-relativization, they long ago stopped believing in an objective reality. There are only “stories.”
And here they didn’t just have ONE story. They had plenty – each more incredible and astonishing than the last.
The Perfect Narrative
The young dark-skinned genius had been mute until the age of eleven and only learned to read and write at eighteen. He was autistic and had had a brain tumor.
He had run 30 marathons in 30 days, several of them with a broken leg. He had raised millions for charity, been a visiting professor at several world-famous universities, written dissertations, and become the youngest professor ever at prestigious Cambridge.
Anyone with the ambition to actually find out the truth could have figured this out in an afternoon. But the temptation and allure became too great for the left-liberal women. Why check facts when the story is so perfect, so flawless in its intersectional brilliance? For this omission, Jason Arday eventually paid with his life.
Jonas Andersson
In addition, he had – of course – been continuously subjected to racist harassment. A pig’s head had even been left outside his mother’s front door, an incident that was reported to the police.
The problem was – and still is – that none of this was true. Except one thing. He became a professor at Cambridge.
There was no police report. No butcher had sold any pig’s head. The alleged marathons had never been run. The same goes for the muteness, the autism, the brain tumor, the visiting professorships, the charity, the broken leg, and the dissertation.
The plagiarism of the dissertation is perhaps the gravest in this string of lies and fabrications.
Arday had in fact plagiarized – stolen – most from a fellow student and filled in the rest with the help of AI.
Anyone with the ambition to actually find out the truth could have figured this out in an afternoon. But the temptation and allure became too great for the left-liberal women.
Why check facts when the story is so perfect, so flawless in its intersectional brilliance? For this omission, Jason Arday eventually paid with his life.
I have seen how underperforming and in several cases outright mediocre academics have been promoted and rewarded because of their skin color and gender – while brilliant and wise applicants have had to see their applications end up in the wastebasket.
Jonas Andersson
His suicide, just a week after he was dismissed from Cambridge and his lies were exposed internationally, would most likely never have happened if the poisoned faculty and those responsible at the university hadn’t put on blinders and let themselves be enchanted by this perfect narrative – a narrative that at the same time could put all the white men who applied for the professorship in their place.
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That’s why they have blood on their hands. But this is also where the story of Jason Arday ceases to be just a bizarre British university scandal. For I recognize the environment that made him possible.
I Have Seen It Myself
I have myself been employed as a university lecturer and have seen up close how institution after institution in Sweden has been poisoned by this madness. Critical race theory – or “whiteness studies,” as it is prettily called in Swedish – intersectionalism, feminism, postcolonial studies, and other recycled racism are today taught at virtually every humanities institution in Sweden.
And for a long time now, this mindset has also taken hold in schools and high schools.
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I have seen how underperforming and in several cases outright mediocre academics have been promoted and rewarded because of their skin color and gender – while brilliant and wise applicants have had to see their applications end up in the wastebasket.
Young people today are stuffed with hatred of the West, hatred of white people – especially white men – hatred of our Judeo-Christian heritage, hatred of the “heteronorm,” hatred of conservatives. Yes, hatred of anyone who does not share their own pathological and destructive worldview.
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Hat, hate, hate. Hatred everywhere.
Hat is the very lubricant in this machine of destruction, whose ultimate purpose is to annihilate all that is good, true, and right. To tear down the civilization that more than any other in human history has made freedom, justice, and tolerance its core pillars.
This is the truly repugnant part of this story. The same people who should have scrutinized him instead made his lies possible. They applauded the narrative, awarded it academic titles and institutional legitimacy, and never asked the questions that could have punctured it before it grew larger than the person behind it.
Jonas Andersson
And I hardly even need to mention that antisemitism and hatred of Jews also has an obvious place in this waterlogged mindset.
It is no coincidence that the blue-haired women with nose rings take the feminist high priestess Judith Butler seriously when she describes the terrorist organization Hamas – which would behead every Jew on earth if it got the chance – as a “freedom movement.”
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That Michel Foucault, that enemy of the light and executioner of the West – the idol of all sociologists and quackademics – sided with Ayatollah Khomeini during Iran’s bloody Islamist revolution therefore comes as no surprise either.
It is from this hostility toward the West and this aversion to everything the “white man” has created that our universities today operate.
When Narrative Defeats Reality
And it is here the circle closes. Jason Arday ultimately became a victim of the world that made him possible. A university world so in love with its own theories about race, power, victimhood, and privilege that it forgot the most basic mission an academic institution has – to distinguish truth from falsehood.
And almost inevitably, the scrutiny of Arday has in itself become a racial issue. Instead of discussing how an academic could make it all the way to Cambridge on credentials and life stories that, according to critics, could not stand up to scrutiny, some of his defenders are now claiming that the revelations themselves are an attack on blacks.
Thus the ideological circle closes – the skin color that helped make the story attractive is now used as a shield against those scrutinizing it.
The result is not less racial fixation but more – deeper suspicion, greater division, and a society where even the question of what is true or false risks being sorted by skin color.
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For Cambridge, Jason Arday didn’t need to be real. He just needed to be the perfect story.
And he was. Until reality caught up with him. Then it all collapsed. The professorship, the lies, the hero story – and finally Jason Arday the man himself.
This is the truly repugnant part of this story. The same people who should have scrutinized him instead made his lies possible. They applauded the narrative, awarded it academic titles and institutional legitimacy, and never asked the questions that could have punctured it before it grew larger than the man behind it.
Jason Arday lied. But Cambridge chose to believe. And when an institution whose reason for being is truth prefers to believe the ‘right’ lie instead of examining the uncomfortable reality, it’s not just a person who is lost.
The university is, too.