WILL JASON ARDAY BE MEMORY HOLED OR DISMISSED AS A ONE-OFF BAD APPLE? They’re the Ones Who Told Us to Pay Attention to Jason Arday.

Yes, Arday is a symptom, and him getting away with his lies as long as he did indicates that Cambridge is in even worse shape than most of us thought. If universities don’t want the scrutiny that comes with being high-prestige institutions, they can no longer continue with the assumption that the rest of us should be deferring to them on intellectual, moral, or political issues. You’re the ones who told us that being the “youngest black professor in the history of Cambridge” was newsworthy.

“Crémieux” tweets, “The people trying to dismiss criticism of Arday by saying he’s irrelevant or small potatoes have to reckon with the fact that he was celebrated by the mainstream.”

That may be understating it: