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”
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I want social and legal equity, but there’s never been any.
You’re quoting feminist garbage. The history of voting rights is in the Hansards. Women were not denied the right to vote; only the rich could vote. When universal enfranchisement happened, more women got the vote than men. http://herbertpurdy.com/?p=204
Law courts are under guidelines to generally believe women, even if they lie. This has been a standard for centuries; it’s why there’s been a men’s movement as long as there’s been a women’s movement – women have been lying (usually about rape) forever, to make gains over men.
As for property ownership etc, you don’t actually know what you’re talking about. Again, the rich have always subjugated the poor, but men have never subjugated women. It’s just not true. Women have rights, men have responsibilities. Women have always been able to run rampant over their husbands and watch him pay the price. You need educating, that’s all.
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True feminists are childless; the spine of the movement is a core of genuinely sociopathic lesbians. Anyone can call themselves a “feminist” and jump on its gaily painted bandwagon claiming “I’m all for equality” – without doing anything remotely like that, of course – but feminism is a supremacist hate movement with both eyes on pure destruction. You can call yourself a moderate feminist like you can call yourself a moderate Nazi. Makes no odds. The movement is defined by its actions and not what workaday halfwits claim it is.
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Clueless. Like all feminists, you’ve just mirrored the truth.
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It is if you only want equal numbers based on sex (not merit) in ONLY parliament and boardrooms. To blindly ignore the fact that society would stop dead without men doing the 99% of the real work that needs to be done, is the core of the issue.
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Nope. There’s no contradiction. If a person is lying and delusional, I am free to call
them out as such, regardless of their sex.
She was wrong (unassailably so) and displaying cognitive dissonance. The fact that you think she cannot be told this by a male stranger BECAUSE she’s female just proved my point and put the last nail in the coffin of your argument. THANK YOU!