“Laws to ensure that black” public figures can’t be covered by the media
Amnesty International was spawned over a hoax in which people were supposedly locked up over their speech. The actual event was based on a newspaper article, it had never actually happened, but that didn’t stop Amnesty International from raising and spending millions of dollars, and preaching to everyone about the importance of ‘human rights’ for succeeding generations.
(Also, according to its founder, secretly operating as a tool of British intelligence services, but that’s a conversation for another time.)
Much like the ACLU and other ‘human rights groups’, Amnesty became increasingly for state crackdowns on speech and civil rights. Now it has come full circle in endorsing ‘Arday’s Law’.
To recap, Jason Arday was a DEI professor at Cambridge whose entire bio turned out to have been made up… quite obviously so because it considered of bizarre claims about raising fortunes, winning marathons and being unable to speak until he was 18 years old.
If you think I’m exaggerating, here are some of the headlines.
Cambridge professor claimed he was on TV show… decades before he was born – The Telegraph
I couldn’t have finished a PhD two weeks after my brain surgery. But I’m not Jason Arday – The Telegraph
Cambridge’s diversity poster boy faces questions over ‘miracle’ 600-mile run – The Telegraph
These were obvious lies and they were so obvious that they raised basic questions about how Arday got his position and a book contract.
Then Arday, facing exposure, killed himself, and the same people who had been covering for him announced that they wanted an ‘Arday’s Law’ to ban media coverage of scandals involving black people.
Amnesty International endorsed the idea that the state should censor the media (and in this case, the opposition media) for coverage that it doesn’t like of people that leftists like.
“Professor Arday was a victim of a brutal, racist witch hunt,” its letter falsely claims. It describes the serial fabulist as “Black autistic man whose journey expanded our imaginations and understanding of what we believed possible in academia”.
That last part is certainly true.
Here’s the incredible closing sentence.
“The media must be held accountable for failing to honour these boundaries. Professor Arday’s family must not be subjected to further intrusion, speculation or online abuse. The most meaningful tribute we can offer is not merely remembrance but a commitment to tangible, real-world change: building systems and enforcing laws to ensure that Black, disabled, neurodivergent and those easily excluded can live, work, contribute and flourish without being forced to bear the costs of institutional failures and public cruelty.”
“Laws to ensure that black” public figures can’t be covered by the media or have their scandals reported on. Can white conservative public figures have their scandals reported on? Obviously. This is a two-tier system in which the goal is to censor the opposition and suppress any exposure of the leftist ruling class.
Which is why, if this state censorship law passes, and there’s a scandal involving Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who is a black woman, those same laws suddenly won’t apply because it’s not really about being black, it’s about state censorship of anything negative about the ruling class.
And Amnesty International is leading the parade to censor the opposition.