Jon Helmer

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Extracts from article in Spectator 16th August by Brendan O’Neill:

Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’ and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now: wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies. . .

This is the poison chalice of the state religion of diversity. It lays traps for the very people it celebrates. It handpicks members of ‘the oppressed’ for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. That’s the toxic bargain of identity politics: it builds teetering pedestals for ethnic-minority thinkers, meaning their fall from grace is often twice as fatal.

And what a pedestal they made for Arday. They worshipped him as ‘the best in the world’. They beatified him as a black wunderkind whose very presence in a place like Cambridge might help to wash away its sins of whiteness. They canonised him as a living monument to ‘decolonisation’. It was precisely this, their giddy, narcissistic desire to manufacture a kind of black saviour, that made them turn a blind eye to the questionable elements of Arday’s CV and life story. They sacrificed their due diligence to the god of decolonisation.

And Arday suffered. He was both poster boy and sacrificial lamb of the diversity crusade. Even as he gained from it – reaching the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship – he was being damned by it. The foundation of myth and sand his starry career was built on was untenable. Its collapse was a given. It is a testament to the ideological blindness of the inhabitants of our ivory towers that none of them foresaw it. . . .

The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.

. . . The media is the only institution in this entire tragic scandal that did its job properly. Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs. Who failed to prize merit over identity, and failed to foresee the public embarrassment that would befall their falsely promoted friend. They ignored the truth – the media found it.

I and others have been arguing for years that the politics of identity is a disaster for all, black and white alike. White kids are overlooked, black kids are patronised. Whites are branded ‘privileged’, blacks ‘oppressed’. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who must atone for past sins, blacks as history’s perma-victims who require the gracious helping hand of the state. We are demonised or infantilised according to the accident of our race.

Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true ideal of equality. We couldn’t save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity.

[Jon Helmer @jshelmer]

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[Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels]

Gee I dunno... could it be because he said women on October 7th deserved to be raped? Or that America deserved 911? Or that we should kill capitalists and let the streets soak in their blood? Or that refugees who escaped communist regimes can suck his c*ck. @RollingStone you're disgusting for laundering this madness.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Racist Commie Mamdani is going to make you show ID in his markets. You want your government-subsidized arugula? Show your papers! Ask for ID to vote? BIGOT!!!

Are you starting to realize what disingenuous lying buffoons these commies are?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Everyone's clowning on Commie Mamdani for having Washington's desk backwards in this hostage video, but it's deliberate.
It's meant to be this way: you are Washington, looking at the carpetbagger who came to your desk to tell you he hates your country and he's got demands.

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

I know how Elon Musk became a trillionaire, but I don't know how Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi became millionaires.

[First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS]

Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.

People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.

A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.

Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.

[Jon Helmer @jshelmer]

@BjornFjord01 @glezak Wow you’re really stupid

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

An alleged repeat criminal offender was allowed back on our streets and killed an Air Force veteran.

This is precisely why I was the Democratic lead on the Laken Riley law.

Why is it controversial for Democrats support deporting criminal migrants?

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Know who isn't celebrating Presidents' Day?

[Jon Helmer @jshelmer]

@MalwareJake Update? https://t.co/ebzfkblJmS

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

You should be fired for printing lies and getting caught.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

I don’t know what’s going to happen next in Venezuela.

I do know taking geopolitical advice from a guy who can’t tell the difference between “fazed” and “phased” makes you even dumber than he is

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Democrats will:

a) call federal agents the Gestapo
b) call President Trump, "Hitler"
c) call America, "1940s Germany"

...and then pretend to be shocked when this happens

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Climate alarmists refusing to have kids is the best idea ever.

Within a few generations, there should be none of them left.

A world without them is a better place for all of us.

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Just in case you didn’t know who was pulling the strings of traitor Mark Kelly.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Angry from Hampstead 😂

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

It's time for people with Trump Derangement Syndrome to admit they were wrong.

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Sending this to the top. Let’s go.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

“Wow watching four straight tush pushes is fantastic football and entertaining to watch!”

- Literally no one ever