Dominic Raab is no more keen on the Equality Act than he is on the Human Rights Act
Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab has just been made justice minister alongside Michael Gove.
Raab is a longtime critic of the Human Rights Act – this appointment looks like David Cameron’s way of saying he is serious about scrapping it. In January 2014 Raab voted to allow human rights grounds to be used to prevent a foreign criminal being deported only in cases where there would be a breach of right to life or the right not to be tortured.
In 2013, he voted to remove the duty on the Commission for Equality and Human Rights to work to support the development of a society in which people’s ability to achieve their potential is not limited by prejudice or discrimination.
And in 2013 he also voted against making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of caste.
Raab also took an unusual stance on gender equality in 2011, when he expressed his fears that ‘from the cradle to the grave, men are getting a raw deal’. He attacked the ‘obnoxious bigotry’ of feminists and complained that men work longer hours than women (no mention of pay gap etc).
“While we have some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the world, we are blind to some of the most flagrant discrimination – against men.”
Seeming to have fallen at the first hurdle – assuming that feminism is anti-men – Raab also suggested that men start ‘burning their briefs’, presumably as a long- overdue retaliation against the feminists of the sixties (who did not, in fact, burn their bras.)
Raab’s diatribe continued:
“Britain’s not perfect, and we will never eradicate all human prejudice.”
This is especially true when we do not understand that prejudice. Another interesting choice from David Cameron.
Ruby Stockham is a staff writer at Left Foot Forward. Follow her on Twitter
398 Responses to “He thinks feminists are ‘obnoxious bigots’: meet the new justice minister”
Janet Wilkinson
Someone who is clearly far left telling someone who isn’t to grow a pair….. wow thats irony right there.
The top 1% of males might be in power but the rest of the men are in exactly the same position as the rest of us women. To try and make a sweeping statement like you just have by claiming that society is “male dominated” shows not only a lack of intelligence but a lack of understanding of society.
Janet Wilkinson
First of all the most common type of FGM is type 1b which is the removal of the just the clitoral hood. That is less damaging than male circumcision, which does more damage both short term and long term. Circumcision massively reduces the sensitivities of the penis, can cause erectile dysfunction and lots of other psychological effects. Compared to type 1b the most common by far in the UK and US type of FGM which is removing the hood by which the clitoris sits under.
So to answer your question with intelligence instead of a silly scaremongering picture, yes circumcision is worse than the type of FGM we see in the UK and US today.
The truth hurts doesn’t it.
Janet Wilkinson
In fact women at certain ages now earn more than men do so you can shove your pay gap argument up your arse.
Janet Wilkinson
Yet all you have done so far on this thread of questions is go around and attack everyone that doesn’t agree with you. Go and read the definition of bigot…
Janet Wilkinson
“Blah blah blah blah blah.
Except the evidence says otherwise. Grow up, prick.”
And you wonder why leftist parties never win elections…… I rest my case, your comment tells us all we need to know.