Weirdos are Fine

Except.

Boris Johnson was today facing fresh calls to sack Dominic Cumming’s controversial new aide who previously claimed that black people are mentally inferior.

Andrew Sabisky, a self-described ‘super-forecaster’, answered Number 10’s call for ‘weirdos and misfits’ but has prompted fury with his extreme views.

In 2014, he wrote on Mr Cummings’s website that to stop unplanned pregnancies there should be legal enforcement of contraception.

Oops! The age of the Internet means that things you said a few years ago can come back to haunt you. You may have said something in jest that is taken out of context. Or you may have changed your mind. None of this matters, it will be weaponised and used against you.

All I will say is this: If these are current opinions, then I wouldn’t want to work with him either. He has an authoritarian streak that is incredibly ugly and he appears at first glance to be no friend of liberty.

He wrote: ‘One way to get around the problems of unplanned pregnancies creating a permanent underclass would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty. Vaccination laws give it a precedent, I would argue.’

Jesus Christ! It is not for the state to impose contraception decisions on an individual. Fucking Hell! Without wishing to go all Godwin, there is indeed a precedent.

On another blog post discussing female genital mutilation, he claimed: ‘It is still unclear to what extent FGM represents a serious risk to young girls, raised in the UK, of certain minority group origins. Much of the hue and cry looks more like a moral panic.’

The cutting off bits of peoples’ bodies without their express consent is an invasion of their body – a vile violation that has no place in a civilised world. It is morally wrong in all circumstances (male and female). So the hue and cry is more than justified.

In the article, entitled ‘Disabilities by race’ he said: ‘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.’

He added that this was the reason there was a higher rate of black students with an ‘intellectual disability’.

Fucking Hell. IQ is not a reasonable measure of intelligence. You can learn the necessary logical processes to score highly, but scoring highly does not of itself mean that you are more intelligent than someone who does not. It is an incredibly limited tool and it takes a certain kind of fool to come to a conclusion that people are retarded based upon this particular tool. Tool here being the operative word.

As I said, these may be things he now feels were misjudged. He may not have meant them as they are being read. But if they are an accurate example of his thinking, then he has no place at the heart of government for he is a nasty, amoral authoritarian. And, to boot, he is an unpleasant piece of work.