article_snippet.sent: Historian David Starkey has launched an astonishing attack on the 'victim status' of ethnic minorities and disabled people - and says women are only of average intelligence.
article_snippet.sent: The outspoken 70-year-old said evidence suggested women tended to be of average intelligence, whereas men were either 'very, very bright or very thick', but denied Historian David Starkey is sexist.
article_snippet.sent: Outspoken: Historian David Starkey says ethnic minority groups and disabled people should not 'assume the status of victim'
article_snippet.sent: In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Telegraph, Historian David Starkey hit out at Baroness Doreen Lawrence, the mother of race murder victim Stephen, for following what Historian David Starkey claimed was the approach of US civil rights leaders after Martin Luther King's death by 'treating blacks as victims'.
article_snippet.sent: Historian David Starkey said: 'They espoused victimhood and violence.
article_snippet.sent: With all the praise that's been lavished on Doreen Lawrence, Doreen Lawrence's constantly treating blacks as victims. '
article_snippet.sent: David Starkey also hit out at Baroness Doreen Lawrence (pictured), for following what David Starkey claimed was the approach of US civil rights leaders after Martin Luther King's death by 'treating blacks as victims' '
article_snippet.sent: Starkey, who said he was 'born quite seriously disabled', added people with physical and mental disabilities should not be portrayed as victims.
highlights_snippet.sent: The presenter said disabled people should not be portrayed as victims .
  