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”
killiandoyle
“Why are 90% of domestic abuse victims women?”
They aren’t. http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
“Why do a 1/3 of all women suffer rape or sexual assault at some time in their life?”
They don’t. Those spurious feminist surveys have been debunked over and over and over.
“Why are streets safe for men and night but not women?”
Are you completely out of your gourd? Do yourself a favour and go look up street violence statistics wherever you happen to live.
“For example male suicide as you rightly point to is a direct consequence
of a male dominated society and men feeling the need to fulfil manly
roles”
Except male suicide was far lower back in the 1970s when according to feminist screeds, men ruled the roost. What feminists like to do is talk about young men and suicide to distract from the fact that the bulk of male suicides are middle aged men, many of whom have been fed into the feminist-designed family court meatgrinder.
“Women getting more equality does not mean men get less”
It does according to feminism.
Bismarko
Wow, finally somebody in London has the courage to say how insane feminists are.
But Im not gonna be satisfied until the day all feminists from any position in government or academia are gone. We dont need those low-IQ lunatics, they only hurt society.
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He understands. We all do.
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He’s leaped all hurdles in one bound. Feminism has ALWAYS been anti-male, from its roots in the Poitevin code, via the KKK to the UK Ministry of Justice today. Anyone who thinks otherwise has no clue what feminism is or why it only has one gender in its name.
Read and weep: http://www.realsexism.com
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Yes, she does and it is. None of what you mention above came from feminism. Votes and pay never had a disparity. It’s an invention. Careers (a chore NOT a privilege) are things feminists forced on women, and now women have NEVER been more unhappy. Feminists hate women almost as much as they hate men.