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arday was clearly an academic fraud and a ridiculous fabulist, but this was the press hounding a man to death to please nazi freaks on twitter who clapped like seals the whole way. it's all gross and bad

the plot beats of his rise is something straight out of a bbc comedy series, esp his academic station. to act like there was never going to be any schadenfreude (he was at cambridge!!!) or coverage is absurd. but the constant, repeated, intensity of coverage—see also claudine gay—was just racism

I'll probably eat a ban for that post but what a fucking ghoul these editors are. they know

Yes it was definitely the Telegraph and not the fact that he got caught in a massive lie and had his career prospects Rightfully destroyed. Not to defend the British press but I doubt the articles kicked the chair out from under him. His life was over with or without the bloodsucking British press.

At cambridge there was a professor not only accused of plagiarism but of sexual misconduct & they unlike Arday they weren't turned into an international pariah & the scapegoat for all of the establishment's rage anger against "DEI" The sentence for plagiarism isn't being hounded to death

Yeah. It’s still the British press. They’re kinda famously ass backwards biased classist and racist.

Shouldn't we wait for the cause of death, before concluding that it was a "lynching"?

dawg, it was an unexpected death but not suspicious. that's suicide. the exact contours of his mental state leading up to it is a mystery to every person except him. but the broad cause and effect here is the easiest logical jump in history

I only make jumps, logical or not, when something compels me to jump. I see no pressing reason to jump at this moment in time, and you have not presented me with one.

I've been made painfully aware over the last fortnight how the police describe suicide victims. It's like this.

it's... a nearly impossible thing to put into the public domain that doesn't simultaneously assure the public there's not a murderer on the loose and be perfectly sensitive to the family as they mourn. I'm no fan of police press talk but this probably the best they can do