Comment on Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 7 hours agoOh it’s Arday’s fault for ripping off his students and committing academic fraud. Completely on him.
It’s the College’s and University’s fault for Blackwashing and promoting someone to a position they didn’t deserve to get good publicity. Also their fault for offhandedly dismissing complaints about him as racism.
It’s the media’s fault for overexposing the story, though it’s silly season and a perfect silly story.
iocase@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I think that’s reasonable but someone like Arady should never ever have been in that position to begin with which is my main point. Is it the village idiot’s fault for being the village idiot? Or is it the university’s fault for making the village idiot the Dean?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
And this is the problem with DEI implementation. For everry worthy hire, there is the risk of an institution forcing through an unworthy candidate for PR optics purposes. When people are so convinced of their righteousness it’s tempting to label dissent as racist out of hand. It’s deeply concerning that the rally in Trafalgar Square attracted non-critical support from senior MPs including Zack Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn, without any apparent critical thinking involved.