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Diversity, Equity, and Confabulation

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Diversity, Equity, and Confabulation If The Onion or Babylon Bee or another satirical publication wanted to spoof the absurdity of DEI — the ideology of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” — they couldn’t have invented a character as unbelievable as Jason Arday. But Arday is very real: Born in 1985, in 2023 he became at 37 the youngest black man ever to hold a professorship at Cambridge University. Naturally, he had to overcome great adversity to do so — indeed, superhumanly great adversity. Arday, the son of Ghanaian immigrants to London, is not only black; he’s autistic and was nonverbal until the age of 11, according to glowing media profiles he’s received. He’s epileptic, too, he claims — yet that didn’t stop him from “running 30 marathons in just 35 days,” as told in Britain’s Independent newspaper. That would sound farfetched coming from someone else, but Arday is apparently as exceptional in body as he is in mind: In a 2021 blog post on the “International Day for the Elimination

First report: Diversity, Equity, and Confabulation — realclearpolitics.com, 7d