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"Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by his university"
Okay but "his university" is Cambridge - aka Limey Harvard, and that means that up until right now, Cambridge has been employing a guy who *checks notes* runs around saying Black people would disappear from professional life in a true meritocracy.
You should have questions and concerns here. This is a far cry from doing enough, in a timely manner.
@AnarchoNinaWrites No, he is currently at Ghent University. He was at Cambridge, though
@rainerzufall_le Oh wild, I didn't realize the resignation was separate from the suspension. But also that still does kinda mean Cambridge was employing a guy running around saying Black people would disappear from processional life in a true meritocracy. Which is you know, unhinged racism.
@AnarchoNinaWrites @rainerzufall_le
"Tech billionaire Peter Thiel has cultivated ties to key actors in this network: to Cambridge Professor James Orr, through whom he channelled a donation to Cambridge; to Orr’s Cambridge circle; to online magazine Quillette which published attacks on Arday; and directly to Nathan Cofnas and Aporia senior editor Noah Carl."
from, and you likely don't want to read this:
@AnarchoNinaWrites @rainerzufall_le
It made local headlines when Ghent University appointed him:
This is how they defended the appointment at the time:
‘While the university acknowledges that Cofnas's remarks are offensive to many, it maintains they do not violate legal standards or the institution's ethical code.’
@rainerzufall_le @AnarchoNinaWrites yeah it's actually worse here because they fired him from Cambridge for the race science stuff and that's exactly why Ghent wanted him
@julieofthespirits It's fucking rightwing entryism and the university is falling for it. There was a lot of protest against it, including the entire fucking philosophy department (except for the other rightwing shitbag who hired him). It's insane it took a fucking death to make the uni suspend him... @rainerzufall_le @AnarchoNinaWrites
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