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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 centurys 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
Love-All
(63 posts)turbinetree
(24,701 posts)Boris' s adjective's show what his IQ is..............in fact he has one oar in the water...............
Polybius
(15,419 posts)He graduated from Eton College with honors, one of the finest schools in the world.
snowybirdie
(5,227 posts)is basically a high school for boys 13-18.
LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)BusyBeingBest
(8,052 posts)turbinetree
(24,701 posts)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)Kate Middleton's and Meghan's press coverage for the same topics, and the unfair treatment was obvious.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)and then they wonder why she wanted to leave.........................and most of the media is owned by one Murdoch....................there is link..................
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Check into what they did to Camilla.
People threw food at her.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)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)But youre right.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)black Americans.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Disaffected
(4,554 posts)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)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)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.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)simply appeared in another slimy formation
Nitram
(22,801 posts)upperclass, working-class and the poor.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)virgogal
(10,178 posts)had a TV show back in the 60s that had the forerunner to Archie Bunker,Alf Garnett.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)It would not fly today...
virgogal
(10,178 posts)appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)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 womens athletics are more comparable to the Paralympics than it is to mens, 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
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Let me guess. He's Russian.
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)Vivienne235729
(3,384 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,767 posts)Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)ananda
(28,860 posts)..
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Eugene
(61,899 posts)Source: BBC
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
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Azathoth
(4,608 posts)It's as common in their discussions as talk of the weather is in normal peoples' conversations.