Instead it was the story du jour for weeks and he was hounded, and now he isn’t here any more
Meanwhile how many white academics are actual criminals? How many white guys have used their status in academia to ruin lives? To victimise? How much academic fraud actually happens that we don’t make a big deal out of? Even when academic fraud does get attention, it doesn’t get this amount of scrutiny.
And it is because he had the temerity to use his lies to “pollute” a symbol of whiteness with his blackness, and that was his actual crime. Being black and thinking he bad a right to be at Cambridge. The lies were secondary.
Fuck the press, fuck academia, and fuck social media
shit like this really tests your empathy when youre black because what do you get out of bullying an autistic man until he killed himself genuinely. this is why you see many black people (including myself) give no grace to racists.
furthermore the investigation was unfolding so it wasnt confirmed he plagiarized. same people will say ”innocent until proven guilty!” when somebody is accused of sexual assault but believe every randos statement on this situation. theres nothing i can say other than the fact that i have no empathy to give if this is what they will do empathetic and kind black people