Hatice Karaman

One of the major lessons here has been how even the highly educated elite is using Arday's "downfall" as a Trojan horse. They are laundering their anti-Black prejudice under the guise of academic integrity. The usual suspects leading this charge are using Arday as a battering ram against diversity initiatives. They have deliberately tied the legitimacy of all Black academia to one man's success, creating a dynamic where his isolated failings are now used as a systemic indictment of an entire community. They are trying to gatekeep their racial-elite spaces by using the weapon that has worked for their ancestors before them. How many White academics have done worse? How many have been used to indict the entire White academic community and question their place in universities? They are treated as just "a few bad apples". They have, including all other privileges, the right to fail as individuals and individuals alone. By all means investigate Arday, but when you start masking your racial resentment behind a sudden devotion to academic standards, that is just modern segregation acting exactly as it is intended.