Timothy Birdnow

This is very sad.

Arday was the poster boy for DEI, having been given his position at Cambridge while being wholly unqualified and in fact a plagiarist and liar who spun enormous tall tales and the university and the media just ate them up.

He was finally exposed for the fraud he was and fired from the university and now he's dead by his own hand.

In many ways I don't blame him; he was just following a path that was easy and advanced his interests. The real fault lies in the inherent racism of the university and of the whole system that seeks to overpromote "people of color" because they want to show that black or Hispanic people are as good if not better than whites or Asians and in their eagerness they take the less qualified.

Arday's story was always fantastical: he claimed he had a disability that left him mute until he was in his teens, that he didn't learn to read or write until he was well into high school, that he ran a charity and in fact ran hundreds of miles in just a few days to raise fantastic sums of money (no record of that), that he worked at a number of universities, like Ohio State, when in fact there was no record of his doing so. He simply lied about everything.

And he plagiarized most of his dissertation.

But why shouldn't he? Nobody ever called him out on it, and he saw early on it didn't matter if he actually did the work or not - just being there opened all the doors. He followed the path of least resistance.

Yes, there should be a moral code and he should not have done all that out of basic honesty, but apparently nobody ever taught him to be honorable or honest. No doubt he was taught that he had the deck stacked against him by "the Man" and that cutting a few corners to get what he wanted was acceptable. So he did.

Now he's dead.

Broad and easy is the path that leads to destruction. Arday is a cautionary tale.

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