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”
fmf
you’re right, posting on a public forum is a request for the noble opinion of Rex, which has enriched my life. Or whatever.
fmf
making two seperated parents share parenting is not a sucessful model of caregiving.
if anyone calling themselves egalitarians or men’s rights activists could see this, they would realise that asking for equal hours parenting hurts only the children, the one’s that custody laws exist for in an equal world. children are not pawns in your status battle. if you have kids you do not have an automatic right to have them live with you if the other parent is a better primary caregiver.
fmf
and the fact that women have sucessfully got more funding for breast cancer than men have got for prostate cancer is feminism’s fault how exactly? don’t blame sucessful women for you not being sucessful, seriously wtf.
Rex
Still being whiney there. Anyone is free to comment on the stupid things you say and they have it’s not just me. If you wanted your life enriched, posting stupid statements on a page like this moaning about your unusual (to say the least) life and warped perceptions of the world, then this really wasn’t the place to do it. I would suggest some form of transgender support forum where you can vent your butthurt at the world as much as you like and feel completely validated and safe.
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Feminism is a female supremacy creed. Always has been. The clue is in the name.