Kulturkampf

[Alpacx]

Seems Jason Arday killed himself.

Selfish cunt. I feel bad for his loved ones.

[Nintex]

Well I guess woke is truely over

I would kill myself too if AOC broke up with me tbh

[HardcoreRetro]

One can only hope his suicide note was either plagiarized or written by AI as well.

[HaughtyFrank]

Lots of finger pointing going around. One blaming people for exposing him, the others blaming academics for putting him in the position in the first place.

[Alpacx]

       

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This one's my favorite:    
This is the fault of an Asian dude, a black dude, a biracial/black dude ( I don't know how he identifies), an American of Latino & Jewish descent, and Harper's Letter baddies.

[DavidCroquet]

When an adult person makes a conscious choice to do something to themselves, it is actually the fault of others. 

I won't explain further because it's not my job to educate you.

[HardcoreRetro]

I feel the academics that let him do this shit should do the honourable thing and kill themselves as well.

[Besticus Maximus]

It actually should have been handled better by everyone, he was clearly vulnerable.

[RetiredSkunk]

Don't be crass. He had so many that loved him and that will miss him.

• The king of England.
  
• Posh Spice (who he dated in 1943).
  
• Joey from The Backstreet Boys (who he dated in 1929)
  
• William Shatner.
  

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

Like I said before, a big reason why this became a new story in the first place is because Cambridge didn't actually want to investigate this internally

[benji]

Like I said before, a big reason why this became a new story in the first place is because Cambridge didn't actually want to investigate this internally

So you're saying you want all Black sociology professors to unalive themselves? Yikes.

[benji]

I like the posts, lots of them in those quote tweets and replies on Bluesky, that are all "this happens at every school" and "this is going on at [other school] but right-wingers don't care" like they think the people upset about it will go "oh, well, never mind then, I now approve of this" instead of decide they need to rampage through every school to find the frauds.

[DavidCroquet]

I also think if we were talking about George Santos, everyone would be yukking it up.

[HaughtyFrank]

Perhaps unsurprisingly not the first time this happened with a disgraced professor 

[benji]

That's different, that was an example of fucking around and finding out.

[benji]

Like I said before, a big reason why this became a new story in the first place is because Cambridge didn't actually want to investigate this internally

I like the posts, lots of them in those quote tweets and replies on Bluesky, that are all "this happens at every school" and "this is going on at [other school] but right-wingers don't care" like they think the people upset about it will go "oh, well, never mind then, I now approve of this" instead of decide they need to rampage through every school to find the frauds.

More content I found from this, this last guy is supposedly an elected official of some kind:

[benji]

I'm just glad we have another opportunity to call out the real underlying problem in our society: the people who took issue with something I don't care about.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The people who placed him in, and fought to assure he stayed in, a position he never should have had, bear the most responsibility for this.

[Uncle]

how would all these people react if a jewish person killed themselves tomorrow on the basis of being demonized over zionism or support for israel or whatever

[Besticus Maximus]

how would all these people react if a jewish person killed themselves tomorrow on the basis of being demonized over zionism or support for israel or whatever

Tbf he didn't get into any of these issues because he was expressing directly weird political opinions in public

He was basically writing sociology auto fiction and they all agreed it was great

[Rendle]

how would all these people react if a jewish person killed themselves tomorrow on the basis of being demonized over zionism or support for israel or whatever

[HaughtyFrank]

[DavidCroquet]

The people who placed him in, and fought to assure he stayed in, a position he never should have had, bear the most responsibility for this.

My controversial opinion is that these people aren't at fault, nor are the people saying he should be investigated. Jason Arday is at fault for his own suicide.

My thing is that I feel like a lot of Current Year Discourse is rooted in this increasingly expansive concept of where to attribute blame when people kill themselves. Suicide is like 1% of all deaths worldwide--though I'm not sure if that includes countries like canada juicing the numbers--but I would say a lot more than 1% of discussions about why some cultural thing should or shouldn't be done invoke the specter of harm via externally-induced suicide to make their point.

You can't show that on TV, someone might kill themselves! 
You have to publish this book, or who knows how many people will kill themselves without it?!
We can't enforce the rules, don't know you know someone might kill themselves?

We really must put an end to butterflies flapping their wings....there's no telling how many suicides their thoughtless behavior will cause!

It's not wrong to be upset when someone commits suicide, but it is wrong to do these adhoc forensic inquries into who pressed the suicide button when it happens. There's only one person who can do that, definitionally. I'd say even in the most obvious cases it's questionable--I remember that girl who was texting that boy to kill himself over and over and think that's pretty clear cut...but then I remember the sage wisdom of tylerthecreator and find myself questioning again.

Not to mention that in the case of Arday, anyone actively participating in the discourse is deluding themselves if they want others to believe they have a sincere interest in uh...suicide justice? It's just the next stage of the already ongoing argument, only both sides are now freshly armed with a shiny new weapon.

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Also it's probably worth mentioning that Arday was "found dead" and it's not a confirmed suicide. I don't expect he was struck by lightning, but there's still a possibility that something other than suicide happened. Though I'm not sure any cause--including lightning, because maybe Arday wouldn't have been standing there if he hadn't been unfairly lauded and/or severely scrutinized!--would stop people people from using his corpse to score rhetorical goals.

[Alpacx]

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