The fact that you're being modded flamebait for facts is a sad commentary on the fragility of certain minds here.
Arday was a flagrant, unapologetic, practically illiterate plagiarist and any white-looking human would've been pilloried if not permanently excluded from acedemia for the same actions.
From the Atlantic: "By his own account, Arday rose to fame as a scholar and a writer despite staggering limitations; he became an academic who can read only a single page of academic text an hour and cannot comprehend what is happening at work 90 percent of the time."
Smells like DEI to me. Unqualified candidate by anybody's reckoning? Check. Racist hiring policies ensure that it's possible for the worst hire possible to occur, instead of weeding them out.
Jacqueline Mckenzie, a member of the hiring committee, said "Whatever the facts are on his extra curricular activities and on the plagiarism when things are examined, Jason has, seemingly, more talent than most of the people celebrating his downfall. Not sure many of us can write a PhD even with copied paragraphs."
Notably, no apology for her own incompetence, dereliction of duty, and failure to vet even the most basic details of Arday's ridiculous claims which I assume we've all seen by now. The entire hiring committee is now committed to covering up for an incompetent plagiarist rather than calling for accountability. Not a single one has apologized or accepted personal blame. It's a farce and ought to be a wakeup call that coddling morons in the name of "equity" is wrong, plain and simple. Ethical standards in academia ought to be inviolate, and violations of this magnitude need to be dealt with openly and honestly.