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
Oh the irony of a feminist saying i’m like a child… you are the biggest bunch of babies around. For the record, I’ve actually helped dozens of homeless men. I give guys food and money every day. You are actually speaking to a man who was once homeless and slept on a park bench. You’re quite a moron really. At the centre of your own little universe where no one could possibly understand these issues as well as you do… no one could have as much experience…. How many homeless have you helped she asks… and she’s speaking a guy who used to be homeless hahahaha. Stupid cow.
How many co-operatives have I helped build? I would like to know how many you helped build?! As it happens I am an activist for housing rights and I have saved many of people from legal actions against them and from homelessness and from eviction and theft from agencies bullying them.
“Get back to me when you have done actions as they are much louder than words” – said like a child… and all I hear from you is words. Kindly link me to all your charity work then dear. And all the people you’ve helped? You’re talking out of a hole in your arse.
Rex
What a joke! “It fought for mens right to be teachers” – bullshit! Men were already teachers! And now… teaching is a female DOMINATED profession! 99% of primary school staff are WOMEN…. secondary is also female dominated… I myself worked in teaching for 2 years. There was hardly a man to be seen. The agencies were desperate to recruit guys but they were dropping out in droves because once women had taken over they began to find the presence of any straight man to be ‘intimidating’ or ‘threatening’ and they bullied them out! I call BULLSHIT on your list Suchmehclit! The whole thing is a massive joke and a feminist fantasy!
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If you don’t like how women aren’t paying as many taxes as men, then please kindly stop bellowing out of the holes in your arses when women so much as TRY to get a position generally allowing only men to achieve. It is those jobs, after all, which pay enough money for women to catch up in the tax-paying field.
And to correct another glaring bit of idiocy on your part, it is MEN and BOYS who gobble up the majority of taxpayer money, both men’s and women’s taxes go toward the feeding, housing, and keeping off the streets of male prisoners. Unless you live in some incredible country where males do NOT somehow comprise well over 85% of all jailed and imprisoned people, that well-worn arse of yours should just stop its blathering. It may have a brain as effective as the one you keep in your head, alas, it’s also only as intelligent as the one you keep in your head.
Time to pull YOUR weight, fellows!
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Fatherlessness is NOT the greatest contributor to a criminal future; poverty is. At least if the prisoners are male.
Male prisons are filled beyond capacity in most countries where feminism is not present high up (such as Sweden, Netherlands, etc., where feminism is respected). Those countries also boast very low poverty levels, but HIGH rates of single mother homes. Yet in countries which men despise feminism (US, UK), prisons not only have disproportionately HIGH rates of male prisoners, but those prisoners share one common thread moreso than having an absentee father: they grew up poor.
Although many male prisoners DID have an absentee father, or an imprisoned father, or a just plain lazy uninvolved father, that did not matter as much as having POOR parents while growing up. MANY male prisoners grew up with both parents, many also grew up in single-father homes. But those homes were plagued with poverty! Single mothers have a twice-as-likely-chance of being poverty-stricken than do non-mothers. But in feminism-friendly countries, single mothers are NOT likely to be cursed to a life of poverty, ergo their children will not grow up with crime as their outlet of choice.
I know in anti-feminism countries like the US & UK, men enjoy the comforting fantasy of believing “if only those unfortunate boys had been allowed to have fathers instead of awful, lazy garbage single mothers, none of this would have happened to them”, but that comforting fantasy is just that: a fantasy. A lie men like to repeat ad nauseum to women to shame them for something that is not their fault. So if you *really did want* boys to grow up well enough to not end up in prison, support poor (poverty-stricken) parents, even though sometimes those poor parents will be the gender you have supreme issues against.
In cases like you, it would be better to keep offspring safe from your bigotry and your comfort with lying.
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Also, not only is your “opinion” of feminism incredibly wrong, but your belief that Planned Parenthood was “caught” selling body parts is also a lie. The US blew MILLIONS of dollars trying to find some little morsel of truth in the accusation, and they FAILED in every state where they investigated Planned Parenthood!!!
Care to say that up is down or left is right then?