The tale of the Cambridge professor Jason Arday continues, as Michael and Maddie weigh in on the fantasy.
How much of a role has Cambridge played in enabling such a serially misleading individual, and how can the university claw back some respectability after this saga? – do they even feel a responsibility to do so?
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Stephen A. Smith GOES OFF on WNBA coach’s “Trans kids belong” t-shirt.
“That is an IRRESPONSIBLE thing to do!”
SMITH: “This is not about being anti-anything. This is about being PRO-GIRLS... You can’t be born a male, transition into female and think that you should have the right to compete with women!"
“Not in basketball, not in football, not in boxing, not in the UFC. Hell, not even in tennis!
“It’s an aberration (anomaly) when you find somebody like a Serena Williams serving 120 miles, 125 miles an hour. That’s ORDINARY for Djokovic... That was ordinary for Sampras, Agassi, and all of these guys."
“We gotta stop acting like somebody that’s speaking up on behalf of girls, like a Sophie Cunningham, like a Riley Gaines, are scourges of the earth."
"You are Cheryl Reeve, the head coach of the Minnesota Lynx. That is an irresponsible thing to do... Do you not think that the females are being SCREWED OVER if they have to compete against an individual born as a male? What are you talking about?!"
“Nobody said you can't transition from male to female. The issue here is competing against the women. That’s what Sophie Cunningham was talking about. That’s what Riley Gaines is talking about. How are you, Coach Cheryl Reeve, and you could condone that, and then you gonna come out with a T-shirt?"
“No regard for the WNBA, no regard for the sponsors that may be put off by that. No regard for the bottom line that might be affected because of a position that she has taken that YOU KNOW is going to be politicized because that’s what you did.”
“How is that okay? How?!”
Now we know — if you put OpenStreet activists in charge of @NYC_DOT street design, instead of coming up with a world class design fitting with some of the greatest architectural works, their standard resembles the kiddie area of a theme park.
This is hilarious on so many levels. They desperately wanted a hero for their fantasy inclusion narrative—and by God, he gave them one. I don’t really blame him. He’s a chancer, a con man, a charlatan. I even have a degree of begrudging admiration for him. Why wouldn’t he take them? They were absolutely begging to be had.
But it’s also sinister. You can bet your life that every university faculty in the country harbours a similar Walter Mitty character who is adored by simpering morons with short fringes, blue hair, tattoos, and excess weight.
It’s a national scandal. If you talk about it, you are of course racist.
Go figure.
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.@Cambridge_Uni's star DEI professor Jason Arday claims he and his family are victims of violent abuse and death threats. He said his family was sent a severed pig's head and that he reported it to police, who investigated and found the butchers where it was purchased. But police said they were never contacted. https://t.co/LXmNVzwkFo
At some point every single police officer is going to have to be sacked and made to reapply for their job.
Consensual policing in Britain is rotten to the core.
Police investigated journalist who tried to expose Cambridge professor https://t.co/SorQiyF5W9
The Irish Govt’s anti Israel obsession has now resulted in a new Govt jet that can’t land in fog or heavy cloud because they wouldn’t buy the Israeli tech to see through it.
The most beautiful metaphor for the whole self harm exercise in self righteousness.
Let’s go @WNBA y’all wanna include everyone right? @minnesotalynx I see a certified 20/20 award winning player for you to sign. What’s the hold up? Let’s go. Put your money where your mouth is. Stand on business. All that shirt wearing it’s time to put up or shut up.
Scandalous behaviour by the police. A free press is essential to democracy. Solidarity with @jgro_the, an education journalist doing his job with courage which should not be necessary. https://t.co/UqQNxE8IaR
Surely mortarboards must roll after the Jason Arday affair? Cambridge is one of the few British institutions left that can command any kind of trust. It risks shredding its reputation – and for what?, asks Simon Evans
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SARAH VINE: To even write this feels taboo. But we need to talk about how so many Western women are being sexually assaulted and murdered by migrants from misogynist cultures https://t.co/jF2IlzyHQc