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
No one said women were stupid.. you’re being melodramatic and over-emotional yet again. I said they avoided most dangerous and physically demanding jobs and that someone needed to do them, and we should be grateful to the men who do. Nothing wrong with that. Don’t get your knickers in a twist.
Blah blah spoon feed me education etc, now you sound like a Feminist. Feminists do nothing but try to ‘educate’ people, then run away and say they aren’t being paid and don’t have time to do it, when their shitty little 5yr old level arguments get torn to shreds.
Misaligned men? I think you meant ‘maligned’ dear. Perhaps you should re-read and edit your posts like I do, instead of just venting and running. And yes they ARE being maligned. There’s an ‘ENORMOUS WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE’ that they are. We have fewer legal rights than women. And we need to change that to have equal protection and have our equal value recognized by our society. End of argument.
Your post says nothing… it’s just venting emotions. No logic. Feminists have you fooled. They aren’t doing jack s**t for men. And they aren’t doing bugger all for women either.
Bye.
Fr.Duffy Fighting 69th
Potty mouth.
Stephan Crabtree
feminism is anti-men. It’s about destroying men, and bringing all women under the control of a political hierarchy. You just have to read their literature. They’re insane bigots, bent on killing off all men. They’re human filth, best ignored.
Roy McCone
Feminism is against men. Otherwise, we wouldn’t freak out about female suicide/bullying, since men suffer it exponentially more. Women get respect for their womanhood by default, and feminists give them the rite of passage on everything; but men are not afforded such things, instead having to abandon all “masculine” traits in order to become a feminist. Hell, most feminists don’t even like the idea of male feminists – they use the term “male feminist ally” to alienate men further, even when they’re on their side.
Roy McCone
Men are incomplete women, men are by their nature sick with a mental illness. Men are misogynistic pigs. Women are oppressed in all aspects of life, even when men are suffering statistically more from it.
But we’re not anti-men.