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turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 01:00 PM Feb 2020

Boris Johnson official said that Black Americans aren't as smart as white Americans

Published 1 min ago on February 17, 2020
By Matthew Chapman

On Monday, The Daily Beast reported on a massive scandal enveloping the administration of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, surrounding the appointment of Andrew Sabisky to an advisory position.

Sabisky, a 27-year-old who received the appointment days ago after answering an advertisement from Johnson aide Dominic Cummings, apparently wrote in an old blog post that Black Americans are significantly less intelligent than white Americans.

Worse still, a deputy official spokesperson for Johnson refused to say on Monday whether Sabisky would be fired, or even whether Johnson agrees with his views — only stating that “his views are well documented.”

And well documented they are.

“If the mean black American IQ is (best estimate based on a century’s worth of data) around 85, as compared to a mean white American IQ of 100, then if IQ is normally distributed, you will see a far greater percentage of blacks than whites in the range of IQs 75 or below, at which point we are close to the typical boundary for mild mental retardation,” wrote Sabisky in the post. None of this is backed by any scientific evidence.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/boris-johnson-official-said-that-black-americans-arent-as-smart-as-white-americans/

Hey Boris, can I call you fucking Boris........................let me remind you of just one man that you have no fucking clue about..............................asshole......................his name is Nathan Nearest Green

https://www.jpost.com/International/New-whiskey-honors-slave-who-taught-Jack-Daniel-how-to-make-whiskey-595593

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Boris Johnson official said that Black Americans aren't as smart as white Americans (Original Post) turbinetree Feb 2020 OP
I wonder what Boris' IQ is. Love-All Feb 2020 #1
Welcome to DU................ turbinetree Feb 2020 #3
I'm no fan of Boris, but he's not Trump stupid Polybius Feb 2020 #10
Eaton College snowybirdie Feb 2020 #29
38 LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #25
"Why Meghan Markle Lives In Canada Now" BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #2
Welcome to DU................ turbinetree Feb 2020 #4
Thanks. Yeah, I saw somewhere a side by side comparison of BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #5
The press was very much did what they did to her by calling her some pretty demeaning names turbinetree Feb 2020 #7
Oh please. cwydro Feb 2020 #13
Apples to oranges on that comparison. Caliman73 Feb 2020 #23
It's more like the marriage to Diana interrupted Charles and Camilla's affair. lunatica Feb 2020 #36
Another racist, just like Trump. BeckyDem Feb 2020 #6
This kind of crap still persists. And from a 27-year-old white Brit no less with no experience with. brush Feb 2020 #8
Wait until you hear what he thinks about the Irish greenjar_01 Feb 2020 #9
Such views are so bloody ignorant and destructive. Disaffected Feb 2020 #11
What the hell has happened to the UK? smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #12
The UK has always had more than its fair share of bigots, racists, and arrogant twerps. Nitram Feb 2020 #14
Exactly...the National Front HipChick Feb 2020 #16
Not to mention their football hooligans. Racism is common throughout British society, including Nitram Feb 2020 #24
The conservatism racism came from the right-wingers in the UK rockfordfile Feb 2020 #17
Always racists in England......they virgogal Feb 2020 #26
That TV show was called Love Thy Neighbor... HipChick Feb 2020 #30
It was called "Till Death us do Part" virgogal Feb 2020 #31
MORE from the article: Sabisky also advocates *EUGENICS policies, appalachiablue Feb 2020 #33
What a sick bastard! smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #38
There's a reason Ghandi is a civil rights icon. meadowlander Feb 2020 #37
I'd like to see the average IQ of trump voters. /nt IcyPeas Feb 2020 #15
Things a racist dumbshit asshole would say for $500, Alex. Vivienne235729 Feb 2020 #18
Thanks for outing yourself as a racist, Boris sakabatou Feb 2020 #19
This is coming from a man who pretends to play a guitar without knowing what a capo is. Snake Plissken Feb 2020 #20
Boris sees Americans Obama and Trump and decides Trump is the smart one? Midnight Writer Feb 2020 #21
he quit Demovictory9 Feb 2020 #22
Sheesh ananda Feb 2020 #27
And African Americans and Africans replied . . . underthematrix Feb 2020 #28
Andrew Sabisky: No 10 adviser resigns over alleged race comments Eugene Feb 2020 #32
So Boris Johnson has a "Stephen Miller equivalent" within his own administration. bullwinkle428 Feb 2020 #34
This stuff is ubiquitous in the online alt-right/alt-light communities Azathoth Feb 2020 #35

turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
3. Welcome to DU................
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 01:18 PM
Feb 2020

Boris' s adjective's show what his IQ is..............in fact he has one oar in the water...............

Polybius

(15,419 posts)
10. I'm no fan of Boris, but he's not Trump stupid
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 02:06 PM
Feb 2020

He graduated from Eton College with honors, one of the finest schools in the world.

turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
4. Welcome to DU................
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 01:19 PM
Feb 2020

And the simple fact that "most" of the news media in England is pretty much drove her and the former prince out.............

BusyBeingBest

(8,052 posts)
5. Thanks. Yeah, I saw somewhere a side by side comparison of
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 01:22 PM
Feb 2020

Kate Middleton's and Meghan's press coverage for the same topics, and the unfair treatment was obvious.

turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
7. The press was very much did what they did to her by calling her some pretty demeaning names
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 01:34 PM
Feb 2020

and then they wonder why she wanted to leave.........................and most of the media is owned by one Murdoch....................there is link..................

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
23. Apples to oranges on that comparison.
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 05:13 PM
Feb 2020

Markle and Middleton are two women who were the partners to the sons of Prince Charles then married into the royal family. Middleton was royalty and white, Markle was not royalty and not white, which likely played a role in how they were portrayed in the media. I m sure many factors went into how differently they have been treated by the media, but the comparison does suggest racial bias.

Bowles was royalty and white and yes she was treated poorly. This is where your comparison fails. Bowles was treated poorly not because of who she was but because of what she AND Prince Charles did. They carried on an affair behind the back of Princess Diana who was beloved by the English. There wasn't any ambiguity in that story.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
36. It's more like the marriage to Diana interrupted Charles and Camilla's affair.
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 12:24 AM
Feb 2020

But you’re right.

brush

(53,778 posts)
8. This kind of crap still persists. And from a 27-year-old white Brit no less with no experience with.
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 01:48 PM
Feb 2020

black Americans.

Disaffected

(4,554 posts)
11. Such views are so bloody ignorant and destructive.
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 02:10 PM
Feb 2020

Even if IQ could be defined & measured accurately (which it can't) and even if such a hypothetical measurement showed that the mean black American IQ was less than white Americans (and, even if it is different, all credible evidence shows that the difference would be very small if at all), generalizing such a calculation to ALL black Americans would be irrational and unjust because we are all first and foremost INDIVIDUALS i.e. many blacks are "smarter" than many whites (and vice versa). The same applies to any racial or ethnic population and it is pure bigotry and obscenity to think or act otherwise.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. What the hell has happened to the UK?
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 02:27 PM
Feb 2020

I always thought that they were so much more evolved than us on things like racism (well, not the Brexit idiots, but on the whole, they seemed a lot better than our Trumpers), but over the last few years it's like they've been coming out of the woodwork and now even their government officials are openly bigoted.

Nitram

(22,801 posts)
14. The UK has always had more than its fair share of bigots, racists, and arrogant twerps.
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 02:46 PM
Feb 2020

It's not all BBC and good manners over there. Do a little research and you'll find there have always been fascists and Nazi sympathizers in the UK. It's a lot like the US. When Obama was elected, our bigots came out of the woodwork. Brexit has done the same over there.

Nitram

(22,801 posts)
24. Not to mention their football hooligans. Racism is common throughout British society, including
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 05:29 PM
Feb 2020

upperclass, working-class and the poor.

 

virgogal

(10,178 posts)
26. Always racists in England......they
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 05:59 PM
Feb 2020

had a TV show back in the 60s that had the forerunner to Archie Bunker,Alf Garnett.

appalachiablue

(41,132 posts)
33. MORE from the article: Sabisky also advocates *EUGENICS policies,
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 11:22 PM
Feb 2020

Sabisky went on to write that in order to prevent the creation of a “permanent underclass,” the U.S. government should consider “legally enforce[d] universal uptake of long-term contraception and the onset of puberty,” and added that legal precedent exists for this in mandatory vaccination laws.

(He is apparently unaware of a more direct analogue — several U.S. states used to enforce mandatory sterilizations of people medically classified as “imbeciles” and “idiots,” and these programs directly inspired Hitler to enact similar laws in Nazi Germany.)

On top of all this, Sabisky has claimed that women’s athletics are “more comparable to the Paralympics than it is to men’s,” and that “Eugenics are about selecting ‘for’ good things … Intelligence is largely inherited and correlates with better outcomes: physical health, income, lower mental illness.”

Johnson himself has a long history of racist comments. He once faced controversy for referring to “flag-waving pickaninnies” (a slur for Black children), suggested that people from the Congo have “watermelon smiles,” and joked that Muslim women dressed in burqas look like “letterboxes.”

- More, BBC News, Andrew Sabisky Resigns
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142434607

Eugene

(61,899 posts)
32. Andrew Sabisky: No 10 adviser resigns over alleged race comments
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 10:55 PM
Feb 2020

Source: BBC

Andrew Sabisky: No 10 adviser resigns over alleged race comments

17 February 2020

Downing Street has said its adviser Andrew Sabisky has resigned, following criticism of alleged past remarks on pregnancies, eugenics and race.

Labour had called for Mr Sabisky to go for reportedly saying black people had lower average IQs than white people.

He is also alleged to have said compulsory contraception could prevent "creating a permanent underclass".

Mr Sabisky tweeted: "I wanted to help the government not be a distraction... accordingly I've decided to resign."

"I know this will disappoint a lot of people but I signed up to do real work, not be in the middle of a giant character assassination," it continued.

-snip-


Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51538493

Azathoth

(4,608 posts)
35. This stuff is ubiquitous in the online alt-right/alt-light communities
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 11:36 PM
Feb 2020

It's as common in their discussions as talk of the weather is in normal peoples' conversations.

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