Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row

Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• RubberDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Add the guardian to that list as they’ve been banging on about this as headline news as well in a totally disproportionate way

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  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I noticed that too. The amount of coverage wasn’t even remotely consistent with the newsworthiness of the story.

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He was a black person promoted to a position of prestige over white people, possibly motivated by an inclusion policy, it’s catnip to the gutter press and it’s a story tailor made to go viral in this day and age with the story amplified by places like twatter and farcebook.

      It’s a textbook example of inherent racial bias in the system where even the slightest mistake by a person of colour, or a woman, or a disabled person is leapt upon but the countless examples of white men doing the same thing are glossed over, ignored and pass by without comment.

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