This is so very sad to me. He was tempted by money. He could very well have been an awesome middle school teacher. I see him as a victim of the leftist crap - he was encouraged to lie to support an evil ideology.
We do not need kids seeing this as an example of how to live..... This NOT a guy to emulate... On your complaint on education which is well deserved, this is a poster child for all that is wrong and which has caused HUGE harm to our society and children! If anything this entire episode should be an example of what happens when you live a lie, the world has always been unfair, and it will continue to be, but the individual needs to be honest most importantly to themselves and say no to the dishonesty and opt out of the corrupt system based on based on envy, hate, and revenge against a perceived past “unfair system” not facilitate it, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILTY DOES MATTER Suicide was the easy way out, rather than coming to terms with himself. I see no reason to rejoice in what happened here, but also no reason to morn a selfish life terribly lived
No, not a victim. He made his own choices and decided that the allure of money and fame was worth his integrity. I agree with Alex Berenson. that he wasted his life and could have been so much more, but we all get to choose who we are and will be. The culture of victimhood is evil, its core belief, that you are not responsible for your choices, has an ugly, destructive side. After all, authority and responsibility are intrinsically tied. If you have no responsibility for your choices, then you have no power to choose. Child of God, yes; wasted his talents, yes.
True - victim is really the wrong word I guess. He was expendable to the people who support the ideology of ethnicity over merit. But you are correct - he made the choice.
Arday was more than a mere liar. He was a man with no integrity or honor. He deprived other more qualified people of that position while cheating his students who paid a fortune to be at Cambridge.
Of course it was his fault, at least in part. He may have been dumb, but no one is so dumb that he lies as did Arday without knowing that he is lying with intent.
To point out the truth is not speaking ill of the dead. He did not have to kill himself. That was a choice, one of many bad choices he made in his life.
Our world is in a mess because we pussyfoot around issues like this, including the suicide. The human story is complicated and complex and our understanding of it and one another suffers when we do not address it directly.
Please. Open your eyes. Arday deprived no one of anything. Arday’s shortcomings were visible to everyone who cared to look. Cambridge chose not to look, rather they saw a man who met their need for an oppressed minority to parade as a professor. Surely as day turns into night Cambridge is an accessory to this tragedy, if not more.
I see why people think Cambridge is responsible, but I think their responsibility in this level of tragedy is small. Cambridge is just keeping pace with all the other elite institutions running the same race to gain DEI trophies for themselves. Unfortunately, they didn't recognize Jason's frailty, mainly because they weren't looking at him , just what he represents.
Thank you. Not a skunk. A realist in a world afraid to stand up and admit we are surrounded by many creatures masquerading as humans and preying on others without much if any accountability or consequences.
I believe he was seriously mentally ill. Pathological liars don't have a lot of control over their obsessive lying. Or delusional so his believing that these fantasies were real. He was also rewarded over and over again for these lies and fantasies.
I absolutely believe he should have been exposed. I have anger about his deceptions and the woke idiots who created this sad situation. Human nature has many defects and he was definitely flawed. I give him some grace for what may have been true illness.
There are culprits and victims aplenty, sometimes the same person. Arday was a culprit for lying, and the system was his victim; the system was a culprit for encouraging his lies, and he was their victim.
He saw a tiger and took a ride which could never end well. What child would not want to ride a tiger? That's what parents are for, to prevent it. I don't know about Arday's parents, but the schools bear some responsibility for dangling the tiger in front of gullible children, especially one who claimed to be illiterate until he was 18.
You're not the skunk, you're the person who leaves the party early and sober. I'm following you out the door before the other guests begin embarassing themselves.
At first, I felt sorrow, then came around to what you say. Now I just wonder if it was a step-by-step progression or if there are groups that encourage this kind of gaming the system from the outset.
Unlike the left, I won't celebrate or disparage Jason Arday. If it turns out that he killed himself over this incident that is truly tragic. It's such a permanent solution to what would probably have been a temporary problem in his life.
Sounds like y’all are saying what I always say: suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem. (Granted, some problems ARE worse than others)
I'm afraid I must disagree with "suicide is never the answer." I'm not advocating it as a general rule, but I can envision a circumstance where one might take his/her life. I may actually be facing it at some point, as I have cancer. I'm fighting it, but let's say I don't beat it and it begins to eat me alive. Should a person endure endless pain (and possibly the financial ruin of one's family) until they eventually die? I'm not at all sure I would! Mind you, I don't think about that very much. A positive attitude is a necessity. I haven't conceded defeat, and have so far stalemated the disease. Obviously, this is a very different scenario than what Mr. Arday faced. I do think there could have been a way back for him if his rigid ideology hadn't irreparably poisoned his mind.
If it was suicide, then, as one of my children has said to me: he chose a permanent solution to solve a temporary problem. May all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
It is sad that this ended this way. He was a pathological liar who fooled many, including his students and colleagues, but it is never worth taking your own life as a result.
Just apologize, ask for forgiveness and take your medicine as it comes.
It appears he felt he painted himself into a corner, and didn't see any other way out. If he is to be welcomed Into heaven by God, than hopefully he gave his life to Christ, as through Him is the only way to the Father.
sometimes one can be somewhat at fault for a tough situation, but demons can influence your emotions and even how you perceive the way others are treating you.
we all make mistakes, but they really try to rub sulfur in the wounds when you are already feeling bad about yourself.
We have no idea if Jason suffered demonic attacks, but you raise a good point. A friend committed suicide and I heard she'd mentioned to her mother that she was suffering from them. In both cases lies played a big role in their relationship to their world. I wondered at the time, and now more, if lying isn't what most exposes us to inner torment. It's a scary thought. It prompted me to take a very close look at what I was saying.
Agree, but I am entitled to be furious with the LEFT for their wanton disregard for truth and their destructive worldview. Which I am, regardless of this unfortunate's opportunism. He clearly was over his head.
I don't wish anyone dead, certainly not a generally harmless midwit with 2 children. And yet I'm not compelled to feel much sadness. The world view of this kind of person suggests that they don't care much about anyone's personal worth beyond what they can use in support of their own victomhood. Victomhood which they use to get ahead despite what it means for others. So I wonder would Jason Arday care much if I, an upper white class cis white man, killed myself? I doubt it. And, thus, RIP Jason. Your kids will miss you (and my heart breaks for them), but society won't.
Cancel cancel culture. Can he just lose his job? Punishment enough. Instead the whole internet just shit all over him. This happens all the time and I think it’s vicious and sad.
Actually as fraud is a crime, no, he was not punished at all. His cowardice and abandonment of his children is inexcusable. He could have taken the high road, and faced up to his crimes. There was a road out. He died as he lived.
The problem is that cancel culture is the necessary counter-balance to the adulation culture we've esrablished, mostly because we've pushed God out of our culture. We were created to worship. If not God, then ourselves or other people.
I do not celebrate his death. I feel sorry for him and his loved ones. But the assumption that he is in heaven is an assumption based on feelings and well-wishing, not on any factual foundation. The Bible says that those sinners who are saved are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone -- not death alone. So many today erroneously believe that all you have to do to get to heaven is die. And those who commit suicide surely believe that. We need to warn people against committing suicide, not assure the living that everyone who dies goes to heaven.
No one assumed he is in Heaven; that is known to God alone. But mercy and charity dictate that we pray for his soul, which is why the Church has an entire day set aside to pray for all the departed, known and unknown, and says, "MAY they rest in peace."
This is so true. If we take away the fact that suicide is a mortal sin, and that we cannot take for granted having the time for a final repentance, we remove that last bulwark keeping someone from killing themselves. The fact that this is no longer taught may explain why there are so many suicides now.
This is so very sad to me. He was tempted by money. He could very well have been an awesome middle school teacher. I see him as a victim of the leftist crap - he was encouraged to lie to support an evil ideology.
Funny you say that - I was just saying he should have taught sixth grade, he would have inspired south London kids and they would have flocked to him.
We do not need kids seeing this as an example of how to live..... This NOT a guy to emulate... On your complaint on education which is well deserved, this is a poster child for all that is wrong and which has caused HUGE harm to our society and children! If anything this entire episode should be an example of what happens when you live a lie, the world has always been unfair, and it will continue to be, but the individual needs to be honest most importantly to themselves and say no to the dishonesty and opt out of the corrupt system based on based on envy, hate, and revenge against a perceived past “unfair system” not facilitate it, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILTY DOES MATTER Suicide was the easy way out, rather than coming to terms with himself. I see no reason to rejoice in what happened here, but also no reason to morn a selfish life terribly lived
If only
No, not a victim. He made his own choices and decided that the allure of money and fame was worth his integrity. I agree with Alex Berenson. that he wasted his life and could have been so much more, but we all get to choose who we are and will be. The culture of victimhood is evil, its core belief, that you are not responsible for your choices, has an ugly, destructive side. After all, authority and responsibility are intrinsically tied. If you have no responsibility for your choices, then you have no power to choose. Child of God, yes; wasted his talents, yes.
True - victim is really the wrong word I guess. He was expendable to the people who support the ideology of ethnicity over merit. But you are correct - he made the choice.
Precious human, seen only as a POC and person to be used to virtue signal.
Alex,
I am going to be the skunk at the party.
Arday was more than a mere liar. He was a man with no integrity or honor. He deprived other more qualified people of that position while cheating his students who paid a fortune to be at Cambridge.
Of course it was his fault, at least in part. He may have been dumb, but no one is so dumb that he lies as did Arday without knowing that he is lying with intent.
To point out the truth is not speaking ill of the dead. He did not have to kill himself. That was a choice, one of many bad choices he made in his life.
Our world is in a mess because we pussyfoot around issues like this, including the suicide. The human story is complicated and complex and our understanding of it and one another suffers when we do not address it directly.
Please. Open your eyes. Arday deprived no one of anything. Arday’s shortcomings were visible to everyone who cared to look. Cambridge chose not to look, rather they saw a man who met their need for an oppressed minority to parade as a professor. Surely as day turns into night Cambridge is an accessory to this tragedy, if not more.
I see why people think Cambridge is responsible, but I think their responsibility in this level of tragedy is small. Cambridge is just keeping pace with all the other elite institutions running the same race to gain DEI trophies for themselves. Unfortunately, they didn't recognize Jason's frailty, mainly because they weren't looking at him , just what he represents.
The naïveté and sheer willful ignorance of evil is both hilarious and hideous to read and watch.
But cowardice and avoidance are easy and instinctual in this 21st century culture…
Thank you. Not a skunk. A realist in a world afraid to stand up and admit we are surrounded by many creatures masquerading as humans and preying on others without much if any accountability or consequences.
I believe he was seriously mentally ill. Pathological liars don't have a lot of control over their obsessive lying. Or delusional so his believing that these fantasies were real. He was also rewarded over and over again for these lies and fantasies.
I absolutely believe he should have been exposed. I have anger about his deceptions and the woke idiots who created this sad situation. Human nature has many defects and he was definitely flawed. I give him some grace for what may have been true illness.
There are culprits and victims aplenty, sometimes the same person. Arday was a culprit for lying, and the system was his victim; the system was a culprit for encouraging his lies, and he was their victim.
He saw a tiger and took a ride which could never end well. What child would not want to ride a tiger? That's what parents are for, to prevent it. I don't know about Arday's parents, but the schools bear some responsibility for dangling the tiger in front of gullible children, especially one who claimed to be illiterate until he was 18.
You're not the skunk, you're the person who leaves the party early and sober. I'm following you out the door before the other guests begin embarassing themselves.
ooh. well said.
At first, I felt sorrow, then came around to what you say. Now I just wonder if it was a step-by-step progression or if there are groups that encourage this kind of gaming the system from the outset.
Perhaps a case of extreme narcissism?
Unlike the left, I won't celebrate or disparage Jason Arday. If it turns out that he killed himself over this incident that is truly tragic. It's such a permanent solution to what would probably have been a temporary problem in his life.
Yes, anything can be fixed, suicide is never the answer.
Suicide cannot be fixed.
Life can lead to the path of redemption
Sounds like y’all are saying what I always say: suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem. (Granted, some problems ARE worse than others)
I'm afraid I must disagree with "suicide is never the answer." I'm not advocating it as a general rule, but I can envision a circumstance where one might take his/her life. I may actually be facing it at some point, as I have cancer. I'm fighting it, but let's say I don't beat it and it begins to eat me alive. Should a person endure endless pain (and possibly the financial ruin of one's family) until they eventually die? I'm not at all sure I would! Mind you, I don't think about that very much. A positive attitude is a necessity. I haven't conceded defeat, and have so far stalemated the disease. Obviously, this is a very different scenario than what Mr. Arday faced. I do think there could have been a way back for him if his rigid ideology hadn't irreparably poisoned his mind.
I'm praying for your victory.
Thank you! All prayers are gratefully accepted.
If it was suicide, then, as one of my children has said to me: he chose a permanent solution to solve a temporary problem. May all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Damn, should’a read just one more line - wrote the same one comment up 🤣
A little embarrassing but not worth suicide 😊
Amen. And let's shame the university who was so desperate for attention that they elevated a man far past where he should have been.
Yes, no one should celebrate his death. Anything, except suicide, can be fixed.
It is sad that this ended this way. He was a pathological liar who fooled many, including his students and colleagues, but it is never worth taking your own life as a result.
Just apologize, ask for forgiveness and take your medicine as it comes.
It appears he felt he painted himself into a corner, and didn't see any other way out. If he is to be welcomed Into heaven by God, than hopefully he gave his life to Christ, as through Him is the only way to the Father.
Fabulous letter from your reader. RIP
RIP
for those without mental illness, you can still suffer demonic attacks. they happen to ramp up during tough times.
pay attention to the voices in your head. if they sound at all wicked, start praying immediately, even if you don't know how
My "demonic" attacks come from angels, kicking my ass, telling me I can do better
as long as you know the difference!
sometimes one can be somewhat at fault for a tough situation, but demons can influence your emotions and even how you perceive the way others are treating you.
we all make mistakes, but they really try to rub sulfur in the wounds when you are already feeling bad about yourself.
We have no idea if Jason suffered demonic attacks, but you raise a good point. A friend committed suicide and I heard she'd mentioned to her mother that she was suffering from them. In both cases lies played a big role in their relationship to their world. I wondered at the time, and now more, if lying isn't what most exposes us to inner torment. It's a scary thought. It prompted me to take a very close look at what I was saying.
Agree, but I am entitled to be furious with the LEFT for their wanton disregard for truth and their destructive worldview. Which I am, regardless of this unfortunate's opportunism. He clearly was over his head.
Appreciate your take Alex.
I don't wish anyone dead, certainly not a generally harmless midwit with 2 children. And yet I'm not compelled to feel much sadness. The world view of this kind of person suggests that they don't care much about anyone's personal worth beyond what they can use in support of their own victomhood. Victomhood which they use to get ahead despite what it means for others. So I wonder would Jason Arday care much if I, an upper white class cis white man, killed myself? I doubt it. And, thus, RIP Jason. Your kids will miss you (and my heart breaks for them), but society won't.
Cancel cancel culture. Can he just lose his job? Punishment enough. Instead the whole internet just shit all over him. This happens all the time and I think it’s vicious and sad.
He shit all over everybody first. He is not blameless.
Actually as fraud is a crime, no, he was not punished at all. His cowardice and abandonment of his children is inexcusable. He could have taken the high road, and faced up to his crimes. There was a road out. He died as he lived.
The problem is that cancel culture is the necessary counter-balance to the adulation culture we've esrablished, mostly because we've pushed God out of our culture. We were created to worship. If not God, then ourselves or other people.
What a tragedy on so many levels, may god rest his soul.
I do not celebrate his death. I feel sorry for him and his loved ones. But the assumption that he is in heaven is an assumption based on feelings and well-wishing, not on any factual foundation. The Bible says that those sinners who are saved are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone -- not death alone. So many today erroneously believe that all you have to do to get to heaven is die. And those who commit suicide surely believe that. We need to warn people against committing suicide, not assure the living that everyone who dies goes to heaven.
No one assumed he is in Heaven; that is known to God alone. But mercy and charity dictate that we pray for his soul, which is why the Church has an entire day set aside to pray for all the departed, known and unknown, and says, "MAY they rest in peace."
This is so true. If we take away the fact that suicide is a mortal sin, and that we cannot take for granted having the time for a final repentance, we remove that last bulwark keeping someone from killing themselves. The fact that this is no longer taught may explain why there are so many suicides now.
It feels like suicide and in this I mourn his decision to act in such a lonely manner. RIP.
But let's also hold our breath at the constant failings of the British police...and pray that this is not a sinister act.