He thinks feminists are ‘obnoxious bigots’: meet the new justice minister

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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

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398 Responses to “He thinks feminists are ‘obnoxious bigots’: meet the new justice minister”

  1. disqus_QL05BqU79X

    The Old School were fascists who opposed votes for non-whites and HATED men. They firebombed men. They were scum, born of the women’s wing of the KKK. Ugly, horrible fact that kids are not taught in school. Thanks to feminism erasing history as they go.

  2. disqus_QL05BqU79X

    Wrong.

  3. disqus_QL05BqU79X

    Women are not equal to men. We’re different. If you want social EQUITY, fine. Get women down mines. Into sewers. Labouring. Make women lay roads. Make them work on oil rigs. Cut their funding to healthcare. Shut their DV shelters and not fund another. Make them go to prison and die there ON ALLEGATION ALONE.

    50:50 is equality to you, right? Not yet, pal. We have thousands of years of male reparations to address before you can have that.

    From now on ONLY women will be drafted to die in futile wars. 95% of the prison population will be women. 85% of murder victims will be women. 80+% of suicides and 95% of unsheltered homeless. On and on goes the list. For, let’s say two thousand years, which is generous. These issues will receive no press coverage.

    Then, and only then, can you have 50:50 equality.

    http://www.realsexism.com

  4. disqus_QL05BqU79X

    Amen. Women have more legal rights, more social rights and more human rights. Always have had.

  5. disqus_QL05BqU79X

    Halfwit.

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