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”
Jane Hobson
What an utter cunt. I wish there was a male genitalia equivalent for cunt, but there isn’t. As it happens, I have a cunt, I like my cunt and am only a cunt when I choose to be but, I still like to vilify obnoxious cunts with the cunt word when they deserve the worst cunting words possible to show what utter cunts they are. Oh bugger. I seem to have taken the meaning out of the cunting cunt by saying cunt a lot. Cunting bugger.
Jane Hobson
cunt
Jane Hobson
cunt. You clearly don’t understand feminism.
Jane Hobson
As a man, you are automatically accorded respect. Anything you do after that is down to you.
Bryan Scandrett
Stop peddling lies. Women are not paid less per hour for the same job working beside a man. The so called pay gap is a work gap. Maths for feminists – scheese.
Not all women want to work. Some want to stay at home. Therefore they work less in paid jobs. This is called a choice – aka a privilege. I didn’t have boobs to feed my kids so she stayed at home and I worked my arse off paying for them. I earnt more but she spent it. Calculate that.
Sexual harassment is subjective. I’ve been forced out of jobs by women harassing the men at work.
More likely to get raped???? Did I just see a feminist admit that men can be raped at all????
Not to mention, men are raped more than women. Fact.
Stop rehearsing your prejudices.