Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Boredfrom]

That is horrible to be honest and very sad.

On one level, it is clear that he wasn't truthful about his achievements or credentials. On a wider level, this incident exposes the systematic racism within the media. In particular, if he was white there wouldn't have been this level of scrutiny, backlash, hate vitriol. In many ways, it was because he was made into a poster boy of black excellence, and the racist traditional and social media viewed this as an opportunity to attack ethnic minority involvement in academia.

Regardless of Arday's personal actions - which do seem to have been dishonest, and leveraging a rather fictitious personal narrative for career advancement - it is being used as a piece of ammunition to attack ethnic minorities more broadly in a completely dishonest way. Having a PhD myself and several family members in academia, as well as supervisors / colleagues, etc., who were ethnic minorities...my experience is that pretty much everybody has to work incredibly hard to make it within academia, and those that progress most, as in other fields of life, are not just the most talented, capable...they are the ones who can play the game best in an increasingly corporate university setting that isn't always particularly compatible with taking more ethical stances.

Permanent Ban: Racism

Also, NelsonRoyale having a PhD?    But, hey, he at least admitted he got there by nepotism.

[Boredfrom]

Seriously, why even entertain the idea of “the plagiarist could got away with it if he was white”  and announced it like lamenting that minorities are not allowed to degrade themselves like the whites.  

“He was bullied because he was black excellence… thought it was clear it wasn’t and he got away because lowering standards… anyway, corpo colleges are at fault.  (even if this is a mistake that a corpo would will make on itself).” 

Fucking ERA, they grave dance for people that did even less than this guy, but because he was an outspoken activist and right wingers are the ones doing the grave dancing, he suddenly is a “imperfect” martyr.

I feel for the dude to an extent, but is insane that his family is continuing the charade.

[Uncle]

Even The Guardian wrote an article critical of him. 

British media are unrelenting when they get something, or someone between their teeth. They hounded this man to death with glee. Racist and deeply fucking vile.

“Anyway, fuck Joanne.”

kyuuji being racist

[benji]

This isn't just on the media or its consumers. Plenty of white frauds are allowed to skirt by in academia without much fuss of plagiarism and, if there is an incident, there's a much more ardent attempt to sweep it under the rug, or the person continues failing upwards anyways. Certainly you would not find this level of media circus. It's as I said elsewhere: science and academia are not magically immune from capitalism and its useful progeny of racism, and there is hardly a place in current society for Black people as a whole to properly assimilate because the oppression is a necessary pillar of the whole deal. The West refuses to not be utterly contemptible.

RIP to Arday.

Rest in power you complete fucking fraud.

[Boredfrom]

Rest in power, Jason Arday.

“Rest in Power you beautiful plagiarist. Sure you told the man to fuck himself by taking the coward way out.” 

This isn't just on the media or its consumers. Plenty of white frauds are allowed to skirt by in academia without much fuss of plagiarism and, if there is an incident, there's a much more ardent attempt to sweep it under the rug, or the person continues failing upwards anyways. Certainly you would not find this level of media circus. It's as I said elsewhere: science and academia are not magically immune from capitalism and its useful progeny of racism, and there is hardly a place in current society for Black people as a whole to properly assimilate because the oppression is a necessary pillar of the whole deal. The West refuses to not be utterly contemptible.

RIP to Arday.

Tell us some examples, because you seem so sure about it.  

You piece of shit, get a real job.

[Besticus Maximus]

That is horrible to be honest and very sad.

On one level, it is clear that he wasn't truthful about his achievements or credentials. On a wider level, this incident exposes the systematic racism within the media. In particular, if he was white there wouldn't have been this level of scrutiny, backlash, hate vitriol. In many ways, it was because he was made into a poster boy of black excellence, and the racist traditional and social media viewed this as an opportunity to attack ethnic minority involvement in academia.

Regardless of Arday's personal actions - which do seem to have been dishonest, and leveraging a rather fictitious personal narrative for career advancement - it is being used as a piece of ammunition to attack ethnic minorities more broadly in a completely dishonest way. Having a PhD myself and several family members in academia, as well as supervisors / colleagues, etc., who were ethnic minorities...my experience is that pretty much everybody has to work incredibly hard to make it within academia, and those that progress most, as in other fields of life, are not just the most talented, capable...they are the ones who can play the game best in an increasingly corporate university setting that isn't always particularly compatible with taking more ethical stances.

Permanent Ban: Racism

Also, NelsonRoyale having a PhD?    But, hey, he at least admitted he got there by nepotism.

You'd be amazed at who you post with in these places 

Anyway the Jason Arday stuff seems fairly split between people who are rightly sympathetic because they've been in the system and people who don't know anything about the system and want the culture fight

Nobody deserves to be bullied into suicide because they went one or two tokes over the line with the stories, as for the plagiarism it literally doesn't matter at all if they all decided he was a genius anyway imo. He wouldn't have got the job if if weren't for culture forces but also his entire field was horse shit but is that his fault in anyway? Not at all. He found a gap and became the guy they wanted, its literally not a crime. Sad.

[Boredfrom]

Assimilation is being a complete fraud and getting away with it.  

Thats what every minority should aspire for, that will show the racists how retrograde their ideas are.

[benji]

Nick Clark, who has known Mr. Arday since childhood, described him in an interview last week as a caring person who would go out of his way to make others feel comfortable in everyday social settings.

It's just so caring to lie to everyone you ever meet for your own benefit. Such a beautiful man taken from us tragically by right-wing hate. 🙏

[Boredfrom]

That is horrible to be honest and very sad.

On one level, it is clear that he wasn't truthful about his achievements or credentials. On a wider level, this incident exposes the systematic racism within the media. In particular, if he was white there wouldn't have been this level of scrutiny, backlash, hate vitriol. In many ways, it was because he was made into a poster boy of black excellence, and the racist traditional and social media viewed this as an opportunity to attack ethnic minority involvement in academia.

Regardless of Arday's personal actions - which do seem to have been dishonest, and leveraging a rather fictitious personal narrative for career advancement - it is being used as a piece of ammunition to attack ethnic minorities more broadly in a completely dishonest way. Having a PhD myself and several family members in academia, as well as supervisors / colleagues, etc., who were ethnic minorities...my experience is that pretty much everybody has to work incredibly hard to make it within academia, and those that progress most, as in other fields of life, are not just the most talented, capable...they are the ones who can play the game best in an increasingly corporate university setting that isn't always particularly compatible with taking more ethical stances.

Permanent Ban: Racism

Also, NelsonRoyale having a PhD?    But, hey, he at least admitted he got there by nepotism.

You'd be amazed at who you post with in these places 

I am a filthy dropout, thought.

[benji]

They seem to really earnestly believe that white people have constant unflinching racial solidarity to selflessly and solely protect the place of their own race and none of the passive aggressive progressives in academia would ever knife each other in the back for their own benefit.

[Besticus Maximus]

They seem to really earnestly believe that white people have constant unflinching racial sympathy and none of the passive aggressive progressives in academia would ever knife each other in the back for their own benefit.

This is why I was on his side, in a nutshell. He fucked them it was actually great work.

[Boredfrom]

Nobody deserves to be bullied into suicide because they went one or two tokes over the line with the stories, as for the plagiarism it literally doesn't matter at all if they all decided he was a genius anyway imo

He crossed the line when he wanted to take advantage of it to shit on people that rightfully called him out.  

I feel bad for him, and I get how hard is to meet everyone expectations… but I lose sympathy when he tried to bully others knowing he did what he was accused of doing.

[benji]

Like Kendi and DiAngelo sucking up millions from dumbass progressive whites to reward their narcissist anxiety.

[Boredfrom]

The Guardian reported interviewing academics who believed that the affair would shock academia and "set the study of race in Britain back 20 years."[12] Paul Gilroy, a sociologist at University College London, stated his concern that it would overshadow cuts being made to humanities programmes, and that "The unthinking culture warriors who have supported [Arday] unconditionally share responsibility with his racist critics for making life harder for Black academics and dragging UK higher education deeper into the mire."

Alan Lester, professor of historical geography at the University of Sussex, added that "this case now provides the far-right racists who condemn any equalities and diversity initiatives with a weapon that they will wield egregiously".[94] Similarly, Paul Sagar, a political theorist at King's College London, noted that the populist Right would use the incident to further their criticism of the humanities and social sciences. Sagar described Arday as "a fraudster[,...] plagiarist, and [...] a serial fantasist" with an "obviously paper-thin" research record, and criticised both Arday and Cambridge University for being prepared to "shamelessly play the race card when anybody tries to question the very obvious holes in his story."[66]

The journalist and author Nesrine Malik told The Guardian that it was hard "not to feel this [incident] is about all of us" Black people, resulting in feeling that Black people were likely to be seen as exaggerating their credentials, or that Black people had been given preferential treatment and used by liberal institutions to seem more diverse.[73]

He wouldn't have got the job if if weren't for culture forces but also his entire field was horse shit but is that his fault in anyway?

[Besticus Maximus]

I'm not sure what point you're making, which is not unusual tbh

Academia is full of chancers and frauds, literally stuffed to the gills, nearly all of them are white failsons or steely women

It is genuinely sad that someone fun like him has gone out like this over something as trivial as 21st century sociology

[Boredfrom]

Real talk, “I respect the hustle” shit is one of the worst mentalities to have and often perpetuated by people that think they are immune to grifters and criminals.

[benji]

it literally doesn't matter at all if they all decided he was a genius anyway imo

 Making up bullshit is just standard practice in sociology.

[Besticus Maximus]

Real talk, “I respect the hustle” shit is one of the worst mentalities to have and often perpetuated by people that think they are immune to grifters and criminals.

I think you're underestimating the levels of bullshit that go into talking your way into being a chair of professor stuff at cambridge

He didn't even hurt anyone along the way, he just sang the tune they were wanting at the right times

Anyway I've said my piece and im bored now

[Boredfrom]

I'm not sure what point you're making, which is not unusual tbh

Ah, don’t pull a Benji on me.

Dude affected real people, people that were minorities and work in his field of study. Is depressing how dismissive you are because “is not a real field”  . 

That’s it.

[benji]

How the fuck does the largest military navy in the world have supply chain issues for basic items?

That military is really only there as a deterrent for economic development away from capitalism and to break off those who work in the MIC and Pentagon, not to actually seriously train and supply human beings for extended warfare. They don't give a shit.

[Boredfrom]

Real talk, “I respect the hustle” shit is one of the worst mentalities to have and often perpetuated by people that think they are immune to grifters and criminals.

I think you're underestimating the levels of bullshit that go into talking your way into being a chair of professor stuff at cambridge

He didn't even hurt anyone along the way, he just sang the tune they were wanting at the right times

Anyway I've said my piece and im bored now

Thank you, Nepenthe. Very cool.

[Boredfrom]

it literally doesn't matter at all if they all decided he was a genius anyway imo

 Making up bullshit is just standard practice in sociology.

Well, it sounds like it mattered because the fucker killed himself over it.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-rivals-ot-new-age-of-hero-shooters.1051272/page-572#post-159050962

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissing concerns of racism by labeling other users "performative"

It being an Epic means more people should be able to buy it. That's all that really matters at the end. Netease ain't going to make more Storm skins if nobody buys them. Stop being performative. Buy the red recolor and all her accessories.

Rivals is never beating the allegations, Storm is the only woman with only a epic swimsuit skin in this racist ass game

Every time you call out these anti-Black devs for their blatant racism, the remaining playerbase of this shit game will come to their defense even though this has been a repeated pattern with every single Black character in the game since the beginning. Still laughing at the Egyptian battlepass.

Why I stopped playing it. Well that and them being completely incapable of balancing their game. Shame because anybody other than Netease would've done a much better job.

Netease ain't going to make more Storm skins if nobody buys them. Stop being performative.

Case in point. There's the argument certain people always revert to. How can people buy skins when they literally have given Storm next to NOTHING throughout the entire lifecycle of the game.

Performative? No, it just makes you uncomfortable to actually acknowledge how these racist developers have done every single Black character in this game.

Nah these devs are racist as hell. It's obvious. Anyone trying to justify this is ignorant at best. Every single female character that had a summer skins released this year was a legendary. The disco skins, Egypt skins...it's obvious Netease is racist as hell.

It's amazing how Marvel Rivals is basically speedrunning through every single issue Overwatch has had with no attempt at avoiding or addressing these issues. Inspiring, really.

You totally missed the point. That wasn't what I was saying. They're releasing all 6 summer skins in the same week. People are going have to pick and choose only 1-2 skins. Storm is definitely going to be overshadowed regardless of what rarity she is. Her being an Epic makes her a more likely 2nd bundle pick up. The way it is now, she's going to have low sales regardless. Ideally, she should've been released during a seperate shop week.

Why is Storm going to be overshadowed?

Storm's releasing in the shop alongside Magik and Scarlet Witch Legendaries swimsuits. A event pass with a Black Cat Legendary swimsuit. Tell me realistically, who are the masses/casuals going to pick up. Bare in mind, you can only pick 1/2 from those choices.

This doesn't answer the question. Why is Storm being overshadowed by these characters?

Bottom line is that NetEase and Marvel are in the business to make money, and have the data to presumably back up their decisions with skins.

Ganging up on, baiting, and trying to silence an active poster for trying to make sense of NetEase's decisions is weird, especially when they've already stated that they agree with the premise that NetEase is racist.

If the data says that Black characters sell less (although, why we blindly trust this amorphous data is also a concern considering one of the basic principles of capitalism is that consumer demand doesn't drive what gets produced), and NetEase is only doing what's in its financial interests, then it's not just NetEase that is racist and gamers should really confront that about themselves.

I mean, yeah, look at the state of the world. People suck

I don't know what the data says but my guess is that the reason why Strategists, Magik, Psylocke, Scarlet Witch and Spider-man are showered with legendary skins is because people scoop up all their skins

Old School Gamer saying that if people want more Storm skins they should buy more Storm skins shouldn't be controversial

Assuming the data correlates perfectly with skin distribution (again, it probably doesn't if we understand how capitalism works but let's just assume): The people who want more Storm skins are already buying the Storm skins to begin with. It's up to people who aren't buying Storm skins and yet see the racism inherent in the way not just Marvel Rivals but all hero shooters divvy up their cosmetics to all the white and light-skinned Asian characters to buy more Storm skins.

But they're not going to do that because gamers don't actually care about the racism in their hobby.

I mean hell, the fact that we literally have no data on hand and yet we assume Black characters obviously sell less, so much so that it justifies giving them peanuts, is speaking volumes in ways people in this thread aren't clocking lol.

I made no assumptions about black characters obviously selling less, please don't put words in my mouth, thanks

"Old School Gamer saying that if people want more Storm skins they should buy more Storm skins shouldn't be controversial ."

Because the the black characters except for Cloak either have more complex gameplay, are situational, or are in an archetype that is not as popular.

Which explains why Black Widow has more skins?

If the data at the end of the day shows nobody is buying it. Then we won't get them aside from a random drop once a year.

I would LOVE Storm to get a Legendary skin with Ult VFX and two recolors but they have data that shows that her Legendary skin did not sell.

Please post the sales data here for skins.

BW is now one of the top picked characters in the game.

Widow had her Legendary sold when she was the lowest picked and win rate character in the game

Storm and Black Widow both have 7 skins.

So why did Widow get a Legendary when she was the lowest picked character in the game? If the "data" also says that skin distribution correlates with pick rate, which is the argument that now bitcloudrzr is making ("because the the black characters except for Cloak either have more complex gameplay, are situational, or are in an archetype that is not as popular") she shouldn't have gotten one at that time. So why did she get one at that time? Were the devs just feeling sorry for her?

Nepenthe It's not the same thing because rework for Natasha was already finished and she never got a Legendary skin before her Summer skin. It was her first Legendary and Storm already had one.

Doesn't seem to be the case:

Widow was such a low pick and ranked below almost everyone, yet got a legendary weeks BEFORE her rework.

They had no idea how the rework was going to fare because there was no "data" for the rework to base the decision off of. So why make a "big investment" "concepting, animating, and creating" a Legendary skin for a character with an extremely low pick rate in an environment where the devs of one of the most successful live service games in recent memory still "sadly can't afford" taking a risk to give her that skin before any "data" came in about how the rework would affect pick rates?

Nepenthe when the skin came out it was two weeks before the rework in S9, they knew what was going to happen. She is now one of the top picked and strongest dps.

Oh, so now they magically knew what was going to happen before any "data" came in?! Interesting!!!

They turned her into one of the easiest to use characters, of course they knew.

So you actually can dedicate immense development resources to cosmetics for characters with any data backing up the finances?

Wow! And here I thought all this time the Black characters weren't getting cosmetics at reasonable rates because they had data on hand that says they don't sell enough to be worth it.

Man, sounds like it's just good ol' fashioned racism then.

The problem with Blade and Storm is they have been stuck, as both more complex and underpowered. Nothing has been done to make these characters better, like Blade was at launch before getting nerfed.

Gee, I wonder why the devs don't consider these reworks a priority.

While we are talking about skins distribution it's very funny to me how many ppl are hating mainly on female heroes getting skins, especially Luna Snow, while both Spider-Man and Jeff are literally in the game.

But i guess they get a pass…

I said "white characters" of which Spider-Man qualifies. Jeff is owned by Gwen Poole so he's white by proxy.

What makes it look worse is Blade should be an easier character to buff because he is not the only melee/ranged combo dps. DPSPool has received a lot of tuning since release and is in a similar space, and it is not like there is a lack of popularity when the Blade reveal has 6.7 million views.

Exactly. It's not popularity determining the actions of the developers of any of these hero shooters because there's no direct correlation that's been established. It's just corporate mandate which reinforces racist norms in a society whose economic foundation was literally built on racism.

I was talking in general, it wasn't targeted at you dw. Just something i noticed online like reddit, twitter, discord… etc.
There seems to be a big stigma mainly towards some female heroes and Strategist role in general. It can be very, very toxic and discouraging.
And i am not trying to change the topic here, just noticing that community in general can be very toxic and what kind of ppl Marvel attracts.

I play the equivalent class in Overwatch and there is an overwhelming complaint about the light-skinned women supports getting more skins than the dark-skinned men in the same class, especially when some of the former heroes haven't been around as long as the latter. And it's true; we've compiled the "data" over and over again, and an artist on the game all but admitted on Twitter that they don't make direct decisions about what cosmetics get put in the game.

But just as well, let's not start acting like racism isn't a blind spot by feminists. Yes, gamers can be misogynistic in the way they treat female heroes and the support class in general. I play it. I've been harassed. But that doesn't really address the issue of cosmetic distribution nor does it address the fact that a lot of these same people championing and defending female characters under the banner of "diversity" have a huge blind spot when it comes to race and racism. No one is coming to my rescue or giving a shit about my experience as a Lucio main lol.

So, can someone tell what in the data makes it so that Storm's skin will be gone 2 weeks before the others, which are launching at the same time as her?

Oh, you know. The data.

I don't know why people are talking about data when Black cat has a lower pick rate than Storm and Black panther. Like this is so in your face racist that I can't believe people are trying to excuse it.

Passing the paper bag test gives you a 30% bump in pick rate.

No one's denying that Netease is under representing non-white/non-Asian heroes

Hood's the first non-white/non-Groot vanguard since the game launched, which is crazy

The issue is people keep trying to justify the underrepresentation as valid or understandable instead of just calling it racist.

Can you stop harassing me?

You're...not being harassed? But okay, I won't talk to you anymore.

did someone here compare spider-man getting skins and luna snow getting skins

not only is that a comparison awful considering their histories (in fact considering how popular storm is, she should be getting as many skins as spider-man does) Spider-man has less variations and accessories compared to industry plant snow

"Gun to yo head: name five Luna Snow comics."

Fun fact - the reason why human torch doesn't have a legendary is because he was once portrayed by Michael B. Jordan so Danny KKKoo sees him as a tainted Aryan

Glad you liked it because I proudly got banned from the rivals discord (that I joined just for free units) for posting it.

Seeing Danny koo blocking people because of their anger rocks. Dude is seeing the koo klux klan memes and it's great

Oh that's funny, not so chipper now when's it not on a soundstage and no one to kiss your ass huh Danny?

See calling shit out works sometimes, They're going to upgrade Storm's costume to a Legendary

Now that's a good use of bullying.

when it's for a just cause, always bully

Good to see word from Netease about Storm. Sometimes these companies need to be checked.

 

Was there no one in the entire process for the skin who would've stopped to ask, hey wait, aren't the optics for this skin the only epic in the Women's line kind of bad? or is Marvel hands-off the entire process?

You have a bunch of swimsuit skins that are rated Legendary in the game, and you have the only one given to a black woman that is also in recent memory the only one that is not Legendary. Gamers read that as the skin and character being treated as less valuable/desireable which is by all accounts Not A Good Look. So they should fix it. Simple as.

And people wonder why companies like Sweet Baby Inc. exist, ugh.

Great update from NetEase and Rivals devs show once again that they listen, that they take the feedback and that they are very quick to respond.
Harassing the devs, calling for them to be fired and sending death threats is totally unacceptable tho. But i am not surprised by this at all.

Yeah, sorry I'm not praising these guys for doing the bare minimum after being called out for years. It took being being blocked by Danny, the rivals server turning into a mess with everyone revolting against the racist ass mods and more

And this was just for one storm skin while not addressing the rest of the racist shit like no black characters getting disco or Egyptian skins

No Blade skins, no BP skins, no cloak legs, no balance patch changes. Givin ultron the Cam'ron skin is just funny as fuck

People really love to reduce this issue down to just the skin, when in fact it has been a long-standing problem that reached a boiling point yesterday. They absolutely deserved what they got yesterday, thinking this would blow over and give wishy-washy answers, as Danny likes to do (Legendaries take time was fucking rich).

besides, it's not like they fully learned their lesson (surprise surprise guess who's missing)

Funniest part of this discourse is seeing Danny klu klux klan crash out on Twitter and getting clowned on even more. Zhiyong and Guangguang thankfully have better PR training

[Snoopy]

Meanwhile

So I have a very interesting perspective to come out this with my first wife I haven't shared a lot of details with her but to be honest with you she kind of went I would say opposite of you where it was not a conservative thing but more of once we got married she revealed that she was an 8th generation witch of the pagan persuasion.

This shouldn't have been an issue but all of a sudden it became an issue everything that we did have to do with the ghosts that she was seeing seeing Anubis randomly walking around with things and not to mention going to a funeral walking up to the wife of the person who just died and telling them that he is reincarnated into another life form and is laughing at this procession (I do believe it was a Catholic funeral...) was VERY vulgar feeling having to apologize for that as he was a good work friend!

It became a VERY big deal (besides the OTHER shit she was involved in), so I would say. Communicate! Sadly for us? This shit escalated. I don't tolerate things of this nature anymore. Having seen her changes and my conspiracy Mom now going into a weird Pseudo intelligent religious person. No joke. Fully believes atoms are a lie of the science devil now

I've met plenty of these nutters before and the One thing they all had in common was they couldn't wait to tell me what type of nutter they were. Witches, pagans, wiccans, shamans. They are Never shy about telling people how special they are. So I seriously doubt she waited until they got married to tell him about her magical powers.

[Besticus Maximus]

Need some citations from the 50 page manual as to why this one is not bad and stellar blade and xenoblade 2 are

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tides-of-annihilation-1st-hands-on-demo-40-mins-of-gameplay-looks-hype-af-guan-yu-cuts-down-a-samurai-also-cuts-down-a-dragon-in-a-single-strike.1604851/

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/avengers-doomsday-official-d23-special-look-trailer.1604707/page-2#post-159154984

God this board bitches about fucking everything. Bunch of miserable fucks.

Lots of posts in that thread against race swapping in casting

[Uncle]

https://x.com/thetimes/status/2088344236286525570

RIP man.

The Guardian reported interviewing academics who believed that the affair would shock academia and "set the study of race in Britain back 20 years."[12] Paul Gilroy, a sociologist at University College London, stated his concern that it would overshadow cuts being made to humanities programmes, and that "The unthinking culture warriors who have supported [Arday] unconditionally share responsibility with his racist critics for making life harder for Black academics and dragging UK higher education deeper into the mire."

Alan Lester, professor of historical geography at the University of Sussex, added that "this case now provides the far-right racists who condemn any equalities and diversity initiatives with a weapon that they will wield egregiously".[94] Similarly, Paul Sagar, a political theorist at King's College London, noted that the populist Right would use the incident to further their criticism of the humanities and social sciences. Sagar described Arday as "a fraudster[,...] plagiarist, and [...] a serial fantasist" with an "obviously paper-thin" research record, and criticised both Arday and Cambridge University for being prepared to "shamelessly play the race card when anybody tries to question the very obvious holes in his story."[66]

The journalist and author Nesrine Malik told The Guardian that it was hard "not to feel this [incident] is about all of us" Black people, resulting in feeling that Black people were likely to be seen as exaggerating their credentials, or that Black people had been given preferential treatment and used by liberal institutions to seem more diverse.[73]

Man, is all kinds of depressing.

That One Norm Joke™

that one Norm joke, as far as the eye can see



"some say the worst part of the arday situation was how it affects innocent blacks, and I disagree"

"you disagree with that?"

"yeah, I thought it was the plagiarism"

[Uncle]

Anyway I've said my piece and im bored now

no you're not, you can't fool me! you're besticus

[jooseloose]

I didn’t read Hickman’s Secret Wars (I’m just starting his FF run) but I always feel it was a little lame that it was everyone in the multiverse VS GodKing Doom.

Have you read any of Hickman's Avengers/New Avengers run as well? Doom being the big bad in the end totally makes sense. That whole Hickman run was fucking unreal, there hasn't been anything as good from Marvel since. Al Ewings Ultimates run is probably the closest in terms of the grand scale of things.

MCU Doom being the new Avengers big bad after one post-credits scene vs Thanos being built up over multiple phases does suck though.

[malfoyking]

https://x.com/thetimes/status/2088344236286525570

RIP man.

The Guardian reported interviewing academics who believed that the affair would shock academia and "set the study of race in Britain back 20 years."[12] Paul Gilroy, a sociologist at University College London, stated his concern that it would overshadow cuts being made to humanities programmes, and that "The unthinking culture warriors who have supported [Arday] unconditionally share responsibility with his racist critics for making life harder for Black academics and dragging UK higher education deeper into the mire."

Alan Lester, professor of historical geography at the University of Sussex, added that "this case now provides the far-right racists who condemn any equalities and diversity initiatives with a weapon that they will wield egregiously".[94] Similarly, Paul Sagar, a political theorist at King's College London, noted that the populist Right would use the incident to further their criticism of the humanities and social sciences. Sagar described Arday as "a fraudster[,...] plagiarist, and [...] a serial fantasist" with an "obviously paper-thin" research record, and criticised both Arday and Cambridge University for being prepared to "shamelessly play the race card when anybody tries to question the very obvious holes in his story."[66]

The journalist and author Nesrine Malik told The Guardian that it was hard "not to feel this [incident] is about all of us" Black people, resulting in feeling that Black people were likely to be seen as exaggerating their credentials, or that Black people had been given preferential treatment and used by liberal institutions to seem more diverse.[73]

Man, is all kinds of depressing.

That One Norm Joke™

that one Norm joke, as far as the eye can see



"some say the worst part of the arday situation was how it affects innocent blacks, and I disagree"

"you disagree with that?"

"yeah, I thought it was the plagiarism"

Well this has definitely made me change my mind. Thanks alot uncle, i mean racist uncle. After all, I said was RIP. Excuse me for not joining in grave dancing like your era buddies.