THIS IS TRUE, OF COURSE:

to observe the obvious: no non-black academic would have gotten away with such fraud. if there was a white academic that claimed to have run 30 marathons in 35 days it would have been mocked too https://t.co/ZdOSP9AySl

— Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ (@razibkhan) August 14, 2026

Related:

“Mistakes”

Bitch, this is exactly why this happened.

They weren’t mistakes. They were lies. Lies that would have stopped ANYONE who wasn’t a DEI poster boy from advancing this high in academia.

YOU did this. YOU. https://t.co/s3Ra8m51YQ

— RBe (@RBPundit) August 14, 2026

I think what happened to Jason Arday is tragic and heartbreaking, but this counterfactual did actually take place in the United States, involving a professor and right-wing jokester who I became friends with over the years of having to defend his free speech rights. Mike Adams… https://t.co/xB2BsSxVgi

— Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff) August 14, 2026

Except that Mike Adams was lynched for telling the truth, not disgraced by lying.

More:

Suicidal Empathy, indeed. It is tragic but this is what happens when you allow a complete breakdown of reality, meritocracy, and truth because the perpetrator of the fraud was of a "marginalized class." It was precisely the token racism of the white progressives that allowed… https://t.co/NUfF1DU6c1

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) August 14, 2026

No one should have made Jason Arday an emblem of institutional virtue. Elevating him so far beyond what he could reasonably manage set the stage for a cruel collapse. It is profoundly sad that it ended this way. https://t.co/qpWz5ESfTU

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) August 14, 2026

“Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense.”

What Tunku said. https://t.co/isa6qEemsN

— Roger Kimball (@rogerkimball) August 15, 2026

Yeah. But guess who they will blame. The handwringing, sanctimonious, accusatory op-eds are being penned as we speak.

Poor lad was hounded to death by the far right.

But yeah. His blood is on the hands of the woke crowd that fell for his blatant, absurd lies.

I wish he had… https://t.co/qn7bHfLWwy

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 15, 2026