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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LOLz! You’ve just quoted a load of feminist sources, all of which are faked to ensure these sources keep their funding, almost all of which is paid for by men through higher taxation.
Our economy in the UK is in freefall toward collapse. We’re screwed. 47% of the GDP is spent on the public sector (80% female) and growing. Women were shoehorned into the workplace in the 1970s (but only in safe, easy work) so they could be TAXED by the state.
Fatherlessness is the single greatest contributing factor in crime and feminism has pushed for it more than any other thing. It was always feminism’s primary aim to remove fathers from families, right from the off. Hence why Social Services kidnap children to quota and family courts rule as they do and men who cannot pay child support at levels set by courts – as high as 90% of take-home earnings – are jailed. That’s feminism in a nutshell. Destroy families by destroying men. Society falls into line. The state grows and has tighter control over its citizens. It’s Feminism 101. It’s a statist ideology. You’re just a sockpuppet and haven’t worked that out yet.
The fact that women have never been so unhappy seems to be lost on feminists pushing for more feminism.
Oh and that you even bring up Sanger’s evil Planned Parenthood (based on racist eugencism from the outset) is a joke. They just got caught selling baby body parts.
Nah. You’re done here. C-ya.
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Use yours and read some history. Women are responsible for over 90% of child neglect. Who pays almost 97% of child support? Men have no options at all. We’re the ones the state will kill off if we are not subordinate to women.
Yes, two people are responsible for a planned child. Two are not quite when a women gets pregnant deliberately without the father’s knowledge or consent, or rapes him for sperm (done at gunpoint in some African countries). This happens ever day. Women can rape young teenaged boys and the courts will make that boy pay money to his rapist in child support. Yes, of course that has happened.
Rights come with responsibilities. Feminism forces women to have more of the former and none of the latter. If that were not the case, men would not be the majority victims of every social ill. And they are.
Human beings have been able to breed and get by as best we can for millennia and somehow feminists think men and women all had it wrong until they came along, started a sex war and took over the state.
Feminism’s time is long up.
suchmehclit
I do not have multiple ways to birth control. Birth control fucks up your body. End of. Birth control also fails. Abortions can also damage the womb and in some rare cases cause infertility.
I said we need more birth control for men! So the responsibility and protection is there fore the same for both. I have allergies to latex, Bad reactions to hormonal conception (I am a very calm women and chased someone with a knife on that stuff so you can imagine the fear of not being in control of your mental health being really worth it? When a condom can be used) It is also not 100% full proof… I have been pregnant on hormones as well! So was pumping my body with hormones even worth it in the end? Get an understanding of all the side effects first. I have known so many women who have had problems maybe not as extreme as mine for some but still.
Anyways I found a really good link which instead of me wasting my time all you need to know is answered here. As quite frankly fed up of MRA’s and anit feminists undoing and not helping feminist goals.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskFeminists/comments/2goek2/what_has_feminism_done_for_mens_rights/
suchmehclit
And where is this evidence? Also feminists fought for the laws to be changed so rape in laws stretched to men and not women… so sort out your research pal.
Feminists are not to blame for any of that and this is not a comparisment of who has it worse as I can assure you women have the short end of the stick in that.
suchmehclit
Fatherlessness was around way before feminism. Fathers used to goto work and eat away from the children and wives. At one point the father would eat, ALONE may I add you then the children and wife would eat the scraps… When women started getting more rights farthers started to see more of there children, Mothers also fought for the right to have there children as they used to be seen as property.
Again why would you not want to fund your children? They are your flesh and blood. This shouldn’t be about that.. its not like the women are buying cars and splashing out on some magical beans. Its for nappies, dummies, clothes, food they are expensive are you saying a child should live in poverty because you care more about yourself?
You know if this was the other way around… I feel men would get a free maid and more contributions than what men give. The fact of the matter is that child has not done anything wrong to you. Take responsibilities and use a condom. Just like when women get pregnant… Its a womens fault. 😉 Its always womens and feminists fault isn’t it?