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”
madasafish
“Goldsmiths Students’ Union diversity officer explains she cannot be racist or sexist because she is an ethnic minority woman”
http://tinyurl.com/kqlbvzf
is a classic example of equality laws gone mad..
Myopia
Are the “men in the same role as me” at your company or elsewhere? Do they have the same experience level as you, or more, or less?
“All men do not work longer hours than all women.” That’s a bogus argument. One guy with a part time job will work fewer hours than every full time woman. Take into account professions, experience (years worked) and type of work done, the gap is negligible. There are laws against inequality, including wages.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-mcgorry/a-message-to-anyone-who-thinks-the-wage-gap-is-a-myth_b_7077802.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58arQIr882w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDj_bN0L8XM&spfreload=10
Jon Snow
Third wave feminists ARE obnoxious bigots. See how they truly are on tumblr or see videos of them on youtube. They spread debunked things such as the wage gap or rape culture.
Bee Sharmaine
Male and female ‘circumcision’ was being discussed and compared as one, without reference to the different levels of severity, because of course that would completely undermine the argument put forth that male circumcision is equally as bad – perhaps my silly scaremongering picture demonstrated that?
Just to correct you slightly Type 1a: removal of the clitoral hood or prepuce only; Type 1B: removal of the clitoris with the prepuce.
so, now that we have clarified that male circumcision may only be likened to the subclass of Type 1a in terms of severity (something which no one else seemed that keen on pointing out) lets examine the purpose, the function,the ultimate goal?
In its most basic and mildest form it serves the same function and purpose as its most severe forms: to remove the sexual pleasure and/or sexual enjoyment a woman may experience so that she is less likely to become promiscuous and stray from her husband
And why is this? It is because women are considered to be ‘lesser’ than their male counterparts.
Rex Duis
Unless it’s a female victim of something then it totally counts, right?