Jason Arday: You Did It, Liberals

Our liberal friends are cranking up to blame “critics” for the death of black Cambridge professor Jason Arday.

Christopher Chantrill | August 18, 2026

It looks like our liberal friends are cranking up to blame “critics” for the death of black Cambridge professor Jason Arday.

But I’m here to tell our liberal friends, echoing the immortal linguist Col. Pickering, “you did it!”

The whole arc of left-wing politics, since not later than Marx and Engels, has been about “fighting” for the oppressed against the oppressors. But I say that in every case, the left Made Things Worse for their helpless victims.

Free education for the poor? Everyone, except those sucking the education tit, know that government education is an utter waste.

Welfare? Demolishes the low-income family.

Wage and hour laws and unions for the workers? How are all those industrial unionized workers doing these days? As opposed to unionized government employees living off the fat of the land.

Liberation for women? Listen, cupcake, the only thing that matters in this world is to get kids on the ground and keep them alive. For women, that means birthing and caring and mothering; for men it means providing and mentoring. Everything else is frosting on the cake.

Civil Rights for blacks? Yes, for one shining moment. Then politics as usual intervened and civil rights turned into affirmative action, then quotas, then DEI. And that Made Things Worse for blacks.

Marriage for gays? Hey, why not give them gubmint benefits like any normal modern serf? But if you drive off Route Marriage-and-Children, LGBTetc., you are driving into the wilderness.

What? You say I’m a........

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