
Even now it is very difficult to process the scale of tragedy that engulfed(吞没,席卷) Jason Arday and those who loved him. The unbearable sadness at his death; the wretched(令人痛苦的,悲惨的) knowledge that the very public onslaught(猛攻,抨击) against him began with the malign machinations(恶毒的阴谋) of a self-defined “race realist” – who believes that, in an ideal world, black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment”. The horror that a rightwing and far-right campaign seeking a victim to fuel its nativist(本土主义的,排外的) prejudices can now crow(得意洋洋,自鸣得意) that it found one.
即便现在,我们仍很难消化这场吞噬了杰森·阿迪及其亲友的悲剧的规模。他离世带来的难以承受的悲伤;令人痛心的是,针对他的公开攻击始于一个自称“种族现实主义者”的恶意阴谋——此人认为,在理想世界中,黑人将“几乎从体育和娱乐之外的所有高调职位上消失”。令人恐惧的是,一场寻求牺牲品以助长其本土主义偏见的右翼和极右运动,如今竟能洋洋得意地宣称它找到了一个。
There is wide and profound(深刻的,深切的) grief and of course there is rage, focused and unfocused. Both were on display as thousands joined a protest vigil(守夜,守灵) in Trafalgar Square(特拉法加广场,伦敦地标) on Monday evening.
人们普遍而深切地悲痛,当然也有愤怒,有的针对具体对象,有的则漫无目标。周一晚上,数千人聚集在特拉法加广场参加抗议守夜活动,这两种情绪都展露无遗。
His family – in a moving statement remembering an “amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son” – has said he was “subjected to(遭受,受到) a campaign of sustained abuse for more than three years since he accepted the role of professor at Cambridge University by those who would leave no stone unturned(不遗余力,千方百计) in their quest to undermine(削弱,破坏) him”. This we know. The right and far-right desire to identify and then defenestrate(将……扔出窗外,推翻) anyone or anything that could be seen as symbolic of progress is virtually pathological(病态的,不正常的). The rightwing media, in a quiet summer – a quarry(猎物,目标) identified – led a charge that meant Prof Arday’s face was disobligingly(不情愿地,令人不快地) displayed on almost every front page, every TV screen, for weeks. His family, who knew him best, are clear about what that ultimately meant for a man who was neurodivergent(神经发育异常的) and by the end – according to reports – desolate(绝望的,孤独凄凉的). “The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, who was a gentle man and who always wanted to see the best in everyone.”
他的家人在一份感人的声明中缅怀这位“了不起的父亲、伴侣、兄弟、叔叔和儿子”,并表示他“自接受剑桥大学教授职位以来,三年多一直遭受一场持续虐待的运动,那些人为了破坏他不遗余力”。这是我们已知的。右翼和极右翼想要找出并推翻任何可能被视为进步象征的人或事物的欲望,几乎是病态的。右翼媒体在一个平静的夏天——锁定了一个猎物——发起了一场攻势,导致阿迪教授的脸不情愿地出现在几乎每个头版、每个电视屏幕上,持续数周。最了解他的家人清楚,这对一个神经发育异常、最终——据报道——陷入绝望的人来说意味着什么。“虚假信息运动对杰森来说太过分了,他是一个温和的人,总是希望看到每个人最好的一面。”