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How is the media coverage of Jason Arday any different from the very public cancelling of Kathleen Stock or the way that Maya forstater was thrust into the limelight? Or rhe regular attacks on JKR?
Jason was not a private individual he raised him self up to a high profile position and woke DEI figurehead, apparently on a web of grandiosity and deceit.

OFC any untimely death is tragic; but he's only been subjected to as much press coverage and criticism as the average "cancelling"
Of a GC woman.
 
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How is the media coverage of Jason Arday any different from the very public cancelling of Kathleen Stock or the way that Maya forstater was thrust into the limelight? Or rhe regular attacks on JKR?
Jason was not a private individual he raised him self up to a high profile position and woke DEI figurehead, apparently on a web of grandiosity and deceit.

OFC any untimely death is tragic; but he's only been subjected to as much press coverage and criticism as the average "cancelling"
Of a GC woman.
List of Adray's 'achievements' - verified by Grok

be Jason Arday
>claim diagnosed autistic at 3
>claim non-verbal until 11
>claim partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign by yourself
>claim couldn't read until 18, still leave school w/ two GCSEs
>claim you joined the pro snooker tour at 10, a year before you could speak
>claim you won so much at snooker your mom thought you were dealing drugs
>have the sport's database show just one amateur event, many years later, w/ zero prize money
>claim football academy & a pro career
>have Crystal Palace say no record
>have the real record show tier eight
>claim to have been on Seven Up, a series that first tracked 7 year olds as they grew up
>have it first air 28 years before you were actually seven years-old
>have BBC say you weren't on it, since you're not a time traveller
>claim youths at a bus stop beat you into a weeks-long coma
>claim you heard medics tell your parents to switch off life support
>claim you begged the judge to spare them
>claim they turned up years later as your students, hug them, become godfather to one's child
>claim 30 marathons in 35 days in 2010, the last nine on a broken leg swollen to twice its size
>add an epileptic fit in later tellings
>tell local paper you raised more than £100,000 since you were 17
>claim running 600 miles in six days as your final challenge, when the men's record is 650
>claim it came at the same time as a stroke
>have no race time on record anywhere, because why bother
>have nobody in the ultra world ever hear of you
>hand in a PhD on reflective practice w/ 100+ passages matching another student's 2009 thesis
>have 188 sentences come back identical or near identical, including her copy-editing errors
>match a second PhD & two published papers on top
>claim you did it in 2.5 years, working full time, w/ a brain tumor
>claim the tumor was cut out 2 weeks before the viva
>claim a stroke after the surgery
>claim you turned up & remembered nothing at all
>claim one supervision meeting in the whole doctorate
>get the PhD anyway
>publish a paper claiming focus groups w/ 32 black & minority students
>have the quotes match an epidemiologist's quotes
>have structure follow his too
>lift quotes into other papers & pass them off as interviews you conducted
>get a correction, not a retraction b/c well. . . .
>delete 18 of the 31 quotes
>get full chair at Glasgow
>tell TEDx crowd you've raised over £5m by age 36
>claim you were once watched a teacher tell a boy who wanted to be a concert pianist to aim lower
>retell sort in 2021 w/ the boy as a would-be astrophysicist
>retell it again in 2023 as your own & experience & open a Ch 4 film w/ it
>be youngest black prof in 900 years, and at Cambridge
>get BBC radio series on loneliness
>claim 70% of Brits live below the breadline
>be voted number 1 in the Disability Power 100
>collect honorary degrees from Solent, Anglia Ruskin, St Mary's, Westminster & London South Bank
>say you raised millions for 70+ charities
>claim a Palgrave book called Being Young, Black, and Male
>have Palgrave say it was never published
>claim water points built for WaterAid across SA & Africa
>have WaterAid webpage titled "Why we don't send volunteers abroad"
>list yourself as a visiting prof at Glasgow
>have Glasgow say “nope”
>list yourself as a visiting pro at Ohio State's Office of DEI
>have no record and have that office turn out to have shut in 2025
>have Birkbeck say no record of your master's
>have Nelson Mandela U say the adjunct post ended
>get a second paper corrected 2024
>tell a funeral directors' convention in New Orleans the ultras raised £5m alone, but no record again
>be named on more than $10m in UKRI & NIHR grants
>write to a minister claiming knife threats, assault, spitting, grape, & death threats, plus bananas, bullets, corrosive substances, & mutilated animals
>photograph none of it for some odd reason!
>claim a masked man w/ a knife cornered you in the faculty twice
>show up on no CCTV either time
>tell nobody AT THE TIME
claim police traced a severed pig's head at your parents' house to a butcher who'd sold a "whole hog" that morning
>have the butcher say no officer ever came in
>have the Met call the whole tale “categorically incorrect"
>say you’re experiencing a modern day lynching on a podcast
>have the ASA make your speaking agency strip unbacked claims
>hire Carter-Ruck & get Times Higher Education to kill a finished story
>report their journalist to Scotland Yard for emailing you questions about your record
>have officers tell him to stop, your mental health was hurt
>report a retired professor too, have Devon & Cornwall decline to bother
>have the Met chief later admit "we dropped the ball on that one"
>get cleared by a panel you asked to weigh the "war on critical race theory"
>have 188 matching sentences called an honest & reasonable error
>do keynote on the playbook conservatives use to hunt black academics b/c beyond reproach
>have the Times find participant 11 in study is three different people
>have the same quotes come out of different mouths 25 times across three papers
>have the sexes in your paper add up to 110%
>have false funding declarations
>have an outside expert say there is no question the plagiarism is extensive
>have a Cambridge autism professor send round "URGENT PLEASE SIGN ANTI RACISM LETTER"
>get 13,000 names & three Cambridge heads vouching for text they never read
>have Cambridge call it a "vile smear campaign"
>blame autistic mimicry, a l supervisor who left, & one you never met
>call the campaign racially motivated
>say "what I am not is a liar"
>turn 600 miles of margarine in six days into twelve
>have Anglia Ruskin edit your citation page the day the Cofnas piece dropped
>get Solent to delete the running claims
>have the TEDx video go private
>have your Jesus College page quietly turn Professorial Fellow into l Fellow & a Liverpool master's vanish
>have academics call for a regulator probe, have the Office for Students decline to comment
>have Cambridge open a probe into your qualifications & honorary appointments
>have Jesus College open its own
>quit both on the spot
>put the letter out through the Good Law Project
>have the letter promise you'll return stronger & wiser
>have the letter come back 100% AI
>have Jesus College drop its probe the moment you quit
>have the Good Law Project boss keep defending you, chalking it all up to neurodivergence
>have the ghostwritten memoir come out in the US anyway, after a 1.4m pre-empt
>have the UK edition still set for Aug 27
>have Cambridge order an outside audit of how you were ever hired
>have Durham & Glasgow open probes of their own
>commit suicide
>have people portray you as a victim?
 
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Had a squizz at the Drew Augustine books, they sound good and I’m in the market for some holiday reading, so parted with my £1.99 quite happily in terven solidarity ☺ Thanks for the rec @MaineCoonMama!
 
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Telegraph today

"From 1958 to 1978, the BBC broadcast The Black and White Minstrel Show: a series featuring white entertainers who had caked their faces with ridiculous make-up, in order to impersonate black people. These days, the BBC is understandably rather embarrassed about this. So much so that, in the wake of Black Lives Matter, it published an article on its website, wondering how on earth its past bosses could have been so blind.

“It didn’t seem to occur to anyone in a position of authority at the BBC that the series really was offensive to more than just a few ‘killjoys’,” the article lamented. As a result, “this infamous programme” constituted “arguably the BBC’s most glaring failure to understand the damage it could do when it traded in outdated stereotypes”.

True enough. I’ve got just one question.

If, as the BBC now accepts, it’s wrong to show white people dressing up as grotesque parodies of black people, how come it’s fine – indeed, wonderfully enlightened and progressive – to show men dressing up as grotesque parodies of women?

I only ask because the BBC’s peculiar fixation with drag queens shows no signs of abating. Just this week, Newsnight invited one to participate in a discussion of the UK’s floundering economy. Perhaps we could boost quarterly growth if we each buy a pair of size 12 stilettos.

Meanwhile, the BBC has been eagerly plugging the new series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Apparently we can look forward to meeting contestants who use such charming stage names as “Anita P---”, proclaim themselves to be a “Bikini Bottom Bimbo”, declare that they’re “feeling lit to the t--”, and challenge the “other girls” to “step their pussies up”.

No doubt the BBC would argue that this is harmless, light-hearted entertainment, to which only killjoys could object. But then, 50 years ago, that’s what its bosses said about The Black and White Minstrel Show.

Still, times change. So, in another 50 years, maybe the BBC will once again be wringing its hands, as it wonders, in horrified disbelief, how it could ever have promoted the practice of pinking up."


The BBC will come to regret its bizarre obsession with drag queens
 
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Telegraph today

"From 1958 to 1978, the BBC broadcast The Black and White Minstrel Show: a series featuring white entertainers who had caked their faces with ridiculous make-up, in order to impersonate black people. These days, the BBC is understandably rather embarrassed about this. So much so that, in the wake of Black Lives Matter, it published an article on its website, wondering how on earth its past bosses could have been so blind.

“It didn’t seem to occur to anyone in a position of authority at the BBC that the series really was offensive to more than just a few ‘killjoys’,” the article lamented. As a result, “this infamous programme” constituted “arguably the BBC’s most glaring failure to understand the damage it could do when it traded in outdated stereotypes”.

True enough. I’ve got just one question.

If, as the BBC now accepts, it’s wrong to show white people dressing up as grotesque parodies of black people, how come it’s fine – indeed, wonderfully enlightened and progressive – to show men dressing up as grotesque parodies of women?

I only ask because the BBC’s peculiar fixation with drag queens shows no signs of abating. Just this week, Newsnight invited one to participate in a discussion of the UK’s floundering economy. Perhaps we could boost quarterly growth if we each buy a pair of size 12 stilettos.

Meanwhile, the BBC has been eagerly plugging the new series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Apparently we can look forward to meeting contestants who use such charming stage names as “Anita P---”, proclaim themselves to be a “Bikini Bottom Bimbo”, declare that they’re “feeling lit to the t--”, and challenge the “other girls” to “step their pussies up”.

No doubt the BBC would argue that this is harmless, light-hearted entertainment, to which only killjoys could object. But then, 50 years ago, that’s what its bosses said about The Black and White Minstrel Show.

Still, times change. So, in another 50 years, maybe the BBC will once again be wringing its hands, as it wonders, in horrified disbelief, how it could ever have promoted the practice of pinking up."


The BBC will come to regret its bizarre obsession with drag queens
I was being dense and couldn't work out what Anita P--- was.
It's Anita Piss.

Hilarious.
 
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Going back to the author Drew are the books gruesome? Not into gruesome 🤮
It depends on what you're used to I think? The autopsy scenes are kind of gross but it's not gratuitous.
I have a high tolerance for blood and gore so I'm probably not the best judge.
 
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It depends on what you're used to I think? The autopsy scenes are kind of gross but it's not gratuitous.
I have a high tolerance for blood and gore so I'm probably not the best judge.
Thanks @MaineCoonMama not into blood and guts or violence never watched say Silent Witness or Peaky Blinders a bit of a woose.❤
 
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The Co-operative Group, the ethically minded supermarkets-to-funeral parlours business, has watered down its trans-inclusive policy on use of company toilets, meaning employees are no longer being told to use the facilities they “feel safest in”.

Co-op removes trans-inclusive toilet policy
 
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The Co-operative Group, the ethically minded supermarkets-to-funeral parlours business, has watered down its trans-inclusive policy on use of company toilets, meaning employees are no longer being told to use the facilities they “feel safest in”.

Co-op removes trans-inclusive toilet policy
The thing is, if an employee has to be advised to use the loo they "feel safest in" the business has a HUGE problem. I always just used the ladies' loo when I worked, but I never had to consider if I felt "safe" because my employers didn't employ staff who might attack one another. This whole "safety" thing is just so bogus.

Or I guess as every hetero male is just irresistibly compelled to try to get his hands on a "trans woman" as they just are better at being women, it makes sense that a big strapping lad in a frock would be terrified of a crowd of undertakers lining up to have a go on him.
 
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