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”
Martin Ellis
Janet Wilkinson you say you are opposed to left wing hateful feminist ideology but surely you recognise as a woman that you are not able to form rational views and should not therefore have a right to speak on this public forum but instead defer to my male and therefore more objective view which differs from yours? Surely this is coon sense is it not?
Martin Ellis
Common sense I meant there not that typo.
Rex Duis
How is denouncing Feminism as a hate movement a promotion of ‘rape-culture’? I believe they call that a straw-man argument.
Steven
Yea – right – do you mean the dictionary definition the tout, or the laws, policies, or programs they actually support?
Rex Duis
How can anyone have respect for you Bee when your obviously a disgusting bigot. You just invalidated a man’s feelings by calling him a Beta male and putting him down. So it’s ok for you to humiliate men in this way, but not for men to do the same to you?
How would you feel if I called you out as a bitter unattractive frumpy bespeckled lump with obnoxiously coloured hair who isn’t so much oppressed by men as by the far more beautiful women who get all the sex and attention that you crave and laugh about how ugly and ‘Beta’ you are and how you’ll never be in the ‘In Crowd’….. how does that feel?
New idea for you Feminist! How’s about not diminishing the suffering of others for a change, y’know just like ya preach!