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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You were given the highest privilege life can afford, being white, and being male. And you STILL FAILED?!?
I bet you can’t even imagine the tumble FARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR down the pedestal your life would have been had you been cursed with a full 2 X chromosomes or a non-white phallus.
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The Good Men Project is a feminist website that says many good things about men, as do feminists also say good things about men; and unlike the me’s so called men’s rights movement, they actually seek to help men and boys! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c0e1e4f672fb16d6ebd7162364387fca7bea6842639c92bd3e953e9283f30df3.png . Just because feminists dislike rapists and abusers doesn’t mean feminists dislike men, you misandrist!
Also, your logic equation fails in its solution. The only Toxic Evil Ideology is the one where it wastes all of its time talking against feminism instead of actually helping men, what’s that called again? Oh, yes – the men’s human rights “movement” which never moves, never helps men, and only exists to haunt and taunt females. THAT is the difference between it and feminism – feminism can speak for months in a row without mentioning males’ flaws, but the men’s human rights “movement” has no talking points other than let’s blame men’s suicides and depression upon those feminists, even though men have been historically committing suicides at the current rate since time immemorial.
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You were saying? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ee7f83de023b0af079fac9dddea3a7686e49951413f594d66a487e0f0a21235c.jpg
j.d.troughton
Your racism and sexism are showing.
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FALSE! Demonstrably so. The yesallwomen “campaign” (it wasn’t) was a comforting place for women to share uncomfortable moments of “living while female”. But the usual anti-freedom, anti-woman, anti-equal time crew descended amongst the ladies’ shared experiences, and shoved down the women’s throats a NOTALLMEN hashtag to silence and intimidate them from continuing with the therapeutic sharing. Yes, your silencing tactics scared women into silence, for only the eleventy trillionth time in history.
So what if NOTALLMEN make kissy sounds at 8 year-old girls? To all of the MANY eight year-old girls who have been followed home by guys trying to get her attention, it didn’t matter that the other 3 billion men weren’t doing it. You simply belong to a hate movement which promulgates the theory that NOTALLMEN do the same bad things as the rest, yet at the same time claiming ALLWOMEN do the same bad things as the rest. THAT alone should tell you how impossibly misguided you are.
Also, your cartoon is a blatant misrepresentation of not just feminism, but also of those who respond to feminist opinion: Feminists do NOT think all men are rapists, in fact feminism quotes the likely number of rapists as below 2% of all men. EVEN MEN DON’T THINK IT”S THAT LOW. And your cartoon guys responding to the faked feminist? They would never, and have never, said anything like that. Any peep of rape from feminists is met with “YOU’RE ALL LIARS, RAPE DOESN’T HAPPEN IN 1ST WORLD COUNTRIES, NOBODY WOULD RAPE YOU”, and then they would start with the death and rape threats.
I’ll include a cartoon far more truthful than yours: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0e60e072a99ef50c578a6b1af893487589f2d1d22366f19f73d2035336668e82.jpg