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Before he died, he pondered his own possible downfall. Instead of blaming racism, his defenders should admit the true cause of his collapse.
When news broke on Friday that the disgraced academic Jason Arday had been found dead at home in London, after being accused of plagiarizing much of his work and lying about all manner of biographical details in his recent memoir, there were those on the left who leapt to blame racism.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan immediately posted on X that “Jason Arday was the victim of a pernicious public shaming that other people in his position simply wouldn’t have faced.”
“If Jason Arday were a white middle-class academic,” wrote left-wing Member of Parliament Zarah Sultana, “he would not have been hounded by the British press in the way he was.”
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Douglas Murray is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.