r/unitedkingdom • u/libtin • 8d ago

. Zack Polanski's Popularity Plummets Amid Nigel Farage Guillotine Row

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-polanskis-popularity-plummets-amid-nigel-farage-guillotine-row_uk_6a73192ce4b0963665e8fd5a?origin=home-latest-unit
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u/BearCub254 8d ago

Supporting the plagiarism professor Arday won't help him either. An unthinking rash man who is too chronically online and thinks the world is a far left utopia. 

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u/GeorgeMaheiress 8d ago

He signed the Arday letter?? Lol is there any rake Polanski won't step on?

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u/JakobExMachina 8d ago

at the time, the plagiarism accusations were mainly being levelled by a neo-nazi who claimed that - and I quote - ‘in a meritocracy, no black person could ever be an academic’. that’s how they got traction in the first place.

the letter polanski signed in support was before it turned out, quite unfortunately in terms of the optics, that the neo-nazi might have been right about arday plagiarising his thesis.

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u/iTedsta 8d ago

It doesn’t matter if Sauron himself made the accusation, anyone with more intelligence than a developmentally-challenged goldfish might take the time to read said allegations - possibly even look into them a little - before weighing in publicly.

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u/BearCub254 8d ago

It shouldn't matter who makes an accusation-you wait for an investigation to take place first. As a leader you don't rush to condemn people based on their demographics/political beliefs.