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.
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398 Responses to “He thinks feminists are ‘obnoxious bigots’: meet the new justice minister”
Rex Duis
Cos your going to get such respect going around trolling forums calling anyone you disagree with a ‘cunt’. If you go to Jane Hobsons profile you can see every comment she’s made on Disqus. Her last 4 start off like this:
“What an utter cunt”
“Cunt, you clearly dont’ understand Feminism”
“Cunt”
“As a man, you are automatically accorded respect”
Rex Duis
There are 3 cancers there which are specific to women, though males can also get breast cancer. It also leaves out Testicular Cancer. That would be included in the ‘Other’ category no doubt. Lets see how many of the breast cancer deaths are male, add to prostate and testicular and compare that to female breast, ovarian and cervical. It would be interesting to see how they compare.
Rex Duis
There’s 1.2 million cases of domestic violence against women. 800,000 against men. Men make up 40% of all DV victims, women 60%. Men should get 2 thirds of the shelters women get, to be fair and proportionate. They don’t, not by a long shot. There’s about 8 in the UK for men. There were a couple of hundred for women. In Ireland, there are no shelters for men, leaving men escaping violence often homeless on the street. In terms of volume of numbers more women need help yes.. in terms of percentage of need, men are being helped less by percent, than women.
Rex Duis
Wanting equal numbers is childish. They wanted equal numbers for students of Chemistry in UK universities and look what happened. Some men got turned away cos the classes were full of 50/50 gender split students. Then half the women got bored or decided they didn’t like that subject, transferred to Psychology lol, and the Chemistry departments started getting shut down for failing to graduate enough students. This is how women being childish and selfishly short-sighted, ruins everything for everyone, including themselves, cos women need the world to have chemists to make up their medications and formulate health treatments and domestic products.
The best person shoud get the job. If more of the best are male, then tough. Women need to grow a pair and deal with that. If it turns out women are better, then I have no problem with voting for them. Cos i’m not gender biased. I just see a good person doing a good job for me and why would I want to get rid of them, simply cos they are the wrong gender. That would be genuine misogyny.
j.d.troughton
Yes it is, the gender of the person is irrelevant. I’ll give you that it’s EITHER misandry or female supremacism.