DrValThomas

Emerita Spalding Chair & Sr/Full Professor of English (Americanist/Interdisciplinary) & Africana Studies at Pomona College, Morrison, Afrofuturism, AuDHD

[DrValThomas @JustStorage2]

I am and always have been AuDHD. Black, neurodivergent, 1st gen, working class, woman of indigenous descent. Let’s start there.

[lina | لينه @labushouk]

the idea that Arday's reputation is restored in death is steeped in a logic of necropolitics. he didn't need to be sacrificed at the altar of "racial science" & "meritocracy" for his life to mean something. to quote Nikki Giovanni, the fact "that he [sic] breathed was enough."

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

The media industry converted a Black professor into content, and Jason Arday in the middle of it was converted into a corpse.

Here is the story: https://t.co/UIGuoEuDkH

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

249 articles in 22 days on one Black professor.

188 in the 9 days from resignation to death.

Every stage was racism and profit. The dossier. The rebranding. The volume. The public lynching. The obituary. Now the debate about the pile-on. One media industry. Paid at every stage.

RIP Professor Jason Arday.👇🏾

[vasSm @Mahroussa_Alex]

Some academic and media evils crucified someone truly pure and sensitive. Listen to him here.

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

There's the trauma we experienced-- then there are the decades of people pressuring us to not see what see & know what we know about what happened to us.

THAT'S the essence of CPTSD: not just what happened, but the mind f*ckery around it.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Misan Harriman's full speech at Jason Arday's vigil in Trafalgar square, London @misanharriman

"The legacy media crossed every line in the treatment of Jason"

"They were gleefully enjoying racialised harassment which was started by an unapologetic ethno supremacist"

"Imagine being so lost in the business of cruelty, that you relish hurting another human for sport, with your own poisoned pen"

"Imagine an industry that rewards those who hold this pen for how cruel they can be"

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Thousands of people are at Jason Arday’s vigil in Trafalgar Square.

[Lateef 🙃 @LateefSaka]

The fact people assumed he was a professor instead of a post doctoral researcher when nothing has suggested otherwise is exactly what we are talking about. He didn’t even correct them, and I thought he was against all types of fraud.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

We cannot let this story fall to the way-side. We need urgent press regulation. Sign the open letter for a public inquiry into Jason's death. Repost and tag friends in the comments.

⬇️ Add your name ⬇️
https://t.co/fGZZTjUYZG

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

"This was a vicious campaign but it wasn’t just a campaign against the professor, it was a campaign against all of us and that’s why it is so important to come together and fight for justice for Professor Jason Arday.”

https://t.co/yDusvIjwvJ

[ava 🌞 @moonsoultarot]

Some people have never faced consequences of their actions and so when you stand up to them and assert boundaries with them, they’ll see that as an attack because they’ve gotten away with harmful behaviour their whole lives

[Libriscent @libriscent]

How many sane, intelligent women have been called “crazy” simply because they refused to stay quiet and started exposing someone else’s lies? Sometimes the “unstable” woman is just the one who finally saw through the bullshit.

[zellie @zellieimani]

White people saying they want people to get opportunities based on merit, not skin color, while refusing to recognize how often they get opportunities because of their skin color and not merit is peak white privilege.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway

Author Kelechi Okafor released a series of internal emails showing the Guardian knew how vulnerable Arday was, yet ignored warnings
https://t.co/t6ZiO36z76
https://t.co/t6ZiO36z76

[Ryan Daigler - Exposing Narcissistic Abuse 🚩🚩 @Ryan_Daigler]

Nothing would make the narcissist happier than to see their victim commit suicide.
Please don’t ever give that to them.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I called Jason Arday’s death a ‘digital lynching’, because it is. Existing behaviours & prejudices map onto new technologies…and are then perpetuated by them.

That’s what these platforms are built to do. Jason Arday isn’t an aberration. He’s the business model.
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https://t.co/sWv95X1j3K

[tern @1goodtern]

It's really important to understand the reality of this.

It was a digital lynch mob, and the thing about lynch mobs is that they are known for getting a taste for it.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴 NEW

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

By @NafeezAhmed

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

Subscribe to support fearless independent journalism.

https://t.co/XqrA9cRolw

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

There was a pivotal moment when a responsible & resourced news org could have investigated the race science network behind the Jason Arday allegations.

It is a tragedy that hasn’t happened until now but this is a much needed corrective from @NafeezAhmed & @BylineTimes

https://t.co/zwGUGSkh5S