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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no
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Tragic end.
I feel bad for the dude - honestly a hearty laugh is all I want when people violate social norms like this and show us how frankly evil our institutions can be.
Sure I can blame the dude for every lie told but it only permeates my life several levels deep … the association of someone like Arday and my life only really touches when the walks start crumbling down.
What gets me mad is the institutions.
It’s their fault! Every step of the way someone, anyone, could have stepped in and stopped folly.
But things snowball and here we are.
I don’t even know what I’m supposed to learn from this, and I don’t know how I can help make the world a better place than I left it. People used to change the world I feel like, and I’m only changing the people around me … which is something!
I’m 100% reading the biography about this.
The guilty parties are probably brainstorming how to blame Whiteness, and the whistleblowers, for this death.
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Tragic, and @faceh's sign needs a lot more tapping. The demand for diversity exceeds its supply, with awful consequence.
I'm reminded of the casting of Domino in Deadpool 2 (2018). In the comics, an image search shows her on covers in a variety of pale tones ranging from Caucasian-white to body-paint-white. The movie cast a woman with mixed German/African-American ancestry and gave her a big Afro. Then, they had to find a stunt double and tried to match the actress's sex and ethnicity. They went with Joi Harris, a motorcycle racer with no previous stunt experience. Domino's Afro meant Joi was performing stunts without a helmet, and during a take she lost control of the bike, was thrown through a plate glass window, and died.
What does an action movie character not wearing a helmet (quite common) have to do with their haircut?
I have a feeling you meant to say "the stunt double was a DEI hire" but then the Afro remark doesn't seem to fit.
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He probably died from exhaustion after running 1,000 miles in a few days
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When society indulges someone's insane fantasies and privileges them beyond what reality can bear, tragic things happen.
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The sign is getting dented, but I'll keep tapping it.
Someone(s) must pay a price, and be removed from having any decisionmaking authority for there to be any meaningful 'learning' at an institutional or social level.
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A tragic and pointless loss of life.
In a proper world, he would still be alive, and every person who participated in elevating him into a position he was clearly unqualified for would be experiencing the things that made him want to commit suicide.
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He lived the life of an ardent political extremist and killed himself on his last mission to prevent greater damage to his cause. In a way, that’s actually admirable. It’s like Mishima’s seppuku, or the Croat Praljak drinking cyanide immediately after his conviction for war crimes. But I don’t have any compassion for people who write things like —
Arday knows that he can’t destroy the West directly, but can do so indirectly by targeting their bleeding heart, their Achilles’ Heel. He’s a very smart enemy combatant. If he got his way he would cause more damage than almost anyone else. He was found out and did a 21st century hybrid warfare version of, like, sinking the flagship with himself on board so it doesn’t get in the hands of the French. Commendable in the sense of respecting an enemy, but definitely not worthy of any pity.
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Terribly sad. Of course it was good to see him exposed for cheating and lying, and he made the right move by resigning his post, but I certainly didn't wish ill upon him. He may have lied and cheated, but to the best of my knowledge he never really hurt anybody.
Not directly, but someone with actual academic ability could have held that professorship, and several classes of students were given substandard education so that activists within the institutions could feel good about themselves. If you mapped it all out, you could probably argue for a fair amount of diffuse damage, and a lot of diffused responsibility. But since our systems aren't very good at reckoning that sort of thing (and are currently uninterested in even trying), the scrutiny fell mostly on Arday. I would not want to find myself in a position like that, watching my entire world crumble because I'd been promoted far beyond my competence and had been found out.
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