Tiber727
8hr ago
Spice leads to attention. I'm sure that if you did a full review of academia you could find quite a bit of misconduct, some of it similarly blatant. "Someone makes extremely outlandish claims, holds a prestigious job for years with seemingly no one checking, and multiple attempts to expose him lead to nothing or are actively quashed" is already a pretty spicy story, even in a world where Arday was white.
There's the whole meta left-vs-right debate about "Did Arday get away with it because of DEI?" vs "The right only cares because he's black and they can blame DEI/black people" but the right has the upper hand in this fight because as mentioned above this was a pretty unforced error by Cambridge and even if the left's argument is correct it doesn't change this takeaway. The left just looks it's engaging in "Republicans pounce."
That's what I meant by spiciness. "Guy makes completely believable lies and is eventually caught" doesn't have that factor that makes it memorable or that you want to talk more about it. This caught attention because of the layers of absurdity and incompetence to the extent that if it wasn't because he was black then you have to wonder how it happened. Either way you choose to spin it a bunch of people besides Arday come out looking really bad and that's why this story has legs.
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