Jason Arday has resigned his Cambridge professorship amid a welter of deeply damaging claims, but his downfall has brilliantly unmasked the woke establishment for the frauds they are, according to Paul Baldwin.
Arday's Fabricated Claims Exposed
Baldwin argues that Arday, who claimed to have learned to read at 18 and earned a PhD shortly after, was a fabricator whose outlandish claims were taken at face value by a thrilled lefty woke establishment. He suggests that Arday's story, including his Ghana-born working-class background and autism, was a 'woke wet dream come to life' for academics and media types eager to find a poster boy for diversity.
Police and Cambridge University Criticized
The Metropolitan Police also shamed themselves, apologizing for investigating journalist Jack Grove, whose reporting helped unmask Arday. Baldwin criticizes Cambridge University for its poor diversity record, noting that black employee numbers rose from just under one percent to just over one percent, which he calls 'utterly shameful'. This desperation to improve diversity led them to embrace Arday uncritically.
Fallout and Reactions
Signatories of a pro-Arday letter have been removing their names, and Baldwin mocks the establishment's embarrassment. He hopes Arday will entertain on the chat show circuit and jokes about his upcoming book, questioning if it really exists. Baldwin concludes that Arday has been 'the one brilliant laugh amid a summer of dreadfully depressing news'.
