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. Reverse of truth again. NAILED!
Thanks for proving my point about feminist mental illness again. You’re insane. Sweden is the most feminist country on earth. How can you NOT know that? It’s a global legend! A pinnacle!
Men do not commit crime. People do. Fatherlessness affects daughters as well as sons, you worthless BIGOT. Poor girls raised in two-parent homes do not commit crime like daughters from houses without fathers. It is such girls who will grow up to commit most child abuse, rape and domestic violence, of course. Women commit these crimes more than men do. Faaaaaaaact.
Britain and the UK are feminist states. Do you live on Mars? Small pockets of public anti-feminism do not affect the judiciary.
Yes, single mothers are historically a problem compared to single fathers, because 50 years of heavy Marxist feminism has failed to teach these females about responsibility. No, not all of them, of course, but well over 80% of serious abuse and neglect of children is committed by them.
You know nothing, but it is entertaining to see a standard, brainwashed ideologue gripping onto their ideology like they’d die if they let go.
John Gormley Spokesman MHRI
The Goodmen project….don’t make me laugh.
You might see a good thing there, all I see is hatred for men on every page they have.
Feminism is not only an anti-male ideology it is also a misogynistic one too.
Who else suggests that women are too weak to get ahead with out gender quotas.
You are a misogynist!
Enjoy your sexist bigotry
suchmehclit
So explain how it is propaganda. What has been mislead in that article? What isn’t true? Or warped… Back up your claim or its just a shit reply.
Anders
Does anyone seriously believe that men have no problem being trusted in court when they accuse women of sexual molestation?
Anders
The frequency informs the funding of shelters by gender? Really? Do you have some examples?