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”
Bryan Scandrett
It’s a lie to pretend that ‘feminism’ got women the vote. Such nonsense is simply not to understand how suffrage works. And land holding women had the vote BEFORE men had it. The so called pay gap is actually a work gap and women have always been protected by law against rape married or not. Marital rape laws were just a way to criminalize men by enabling false accusations and rank sexism and fraud to normalized within the family court system.
Bryan Scandrett
Sorry Liz, feminism is dead and too dumb to lie down.
Bryan Scandrett
Equality would be a step down for women and you know it. It’s what you’re afraid of. The time has come and nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Bryan Scandrett
But according to feminists, they’re not feminists. Those people are the trad cons who want feminism to die and stop destroying their families. Not to mention that ‘argument’ is a fallacy.
Bryan Scandrett
Shaming a man as less than a man is a gynocentric control method known as shaming. This is NOT logical argument. This is what was told to you as a boy to control you and as a man, you should be able to control your programming and not engage in this reprehensible female behaviour.
Internalized misandry I believe is the correct ‘feminist’ term.