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
Your link is very amusing as underneath someone has posted a comprehensive rebuttal to the bland statements of the wonderful things feminists think they have done for men. I could add further to that list but I doubt my words would penetrate the thick wall of victimhood you have built up around yourself.
I suggest you take your own advice dear and try putting yourself in a mans shoes for once. You as a woman are NOT the centre of the universe and therefore it’s time our society stopped revolving around your needs and became more inclusive of the whole. There’s a whole other gender out there called men, and there are transgender people too – its time Feminists stopped talking over everyone else and selfishly drowning out their voices.
Rex
Again you feel the victim… ‘women always have it worse’ in the mind of the Feminist. You are wrong. As the guy said… men are the greater victims of every social ill, including murder, robbery, rape (if you include prison rape, which Feminists never do), child death, homelessness and suicide, to name but a few. Woman by contrast are pampered and spoiled. Evidence that you are spoiled is whining about men sitting on the subway with their legs spread too wide for your tastes and microaggressions and many other infantile whining. You are spoiled.
Feminists move the goal posts on definitions of rape to suit themselves, so they could make more women victims. They have not helped men in this regard. They stole the term ‘rape culture’ coined in the 90’s to describe the rape of men in prison and made it into a media sideshow cry for young women in colleges. A Feminist, Mary Koss dictated that the rape of a male is just not the same as the rape of a female and must therefore be categorised with a different title. It’s more often called sexual assault and absent from ‘rape’ statistics, leading to Feminists claiming women are greater victims of rape, when in fact its men.
Rex
Feminists reclassified rape of males as sexual assault and skewed national statistics to claim greater victimhood and therefore get more money and attention from government and media. Care to explain that?
Rex
Despite women adding to the workforce you only contribute 28% of National Insurance payments… yet women draw disproportionately on NHS services… meaning men are paying for 72% of total services and you use more than your fair share of them. We are carrying you. Time women pulled their weight. Thank god they’ve finally evened out the retirement age gap that discriminated against men for 60 years! Making us work 5 years longer to pay into a system which women take the most out of and worse, because women have longer life expectancies, they claim more in pensions which they worked less than men to pay into! It was an absolute outrage, suffered by men without complaint for decades. Time to pull your weight ladies!
Rex
You are clearly a troll…. you made numerous spelling mistakes and typos all through your rambling brainwashed incorherent posts. I have lots of dyslexic friends… they make typos but they can still write a sentence that makes sense, stop playing the victim again. The gentleman is quite correct, you really are a sock-puppet mouthpiece for the hateful supremacist movement of feminism.
Who was this ‘first ever author’ who was a woman please? What was her name?
Feminism doesn’t ‘mean’ equality for the genders. It is a socio-political movement/ideology that claims to seek a goal of achieving gender equality. That is a VERY different thing. As a vehicle for this change it has actually done considerable damage for not only gender equality but for social harmony and well-being in general. More women have suffered as a result of feminist ideology and practice than you would likely be able to believe.
Currently it’s produced a generation of infantile, entitled, aggressive, anti-male harpies and lesbians who seem to think that the interests of a small selfish but vocal minority should outweigh those of everyone else and who are perfectly happy to destroy our society in order to achieve their goals and be damned the consequences for everyone else. I look forward to the imminent backlash wave of anti-femism which is about to enter mainstream culture and obliterate rabid cultists like you.