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.
Ruby Stockham is a staff writer at Left Foot Forward. Follow her on Twitter
398 Responses to “He thinks feminists are ‘obnoxious bigots’: meet the new justice minister”
cyberspice
I have lived some of my life apparently as a male and the last 20+ years as a female. I can tell you that men get it easy. Literally every day there is something. Whether it being shouted at about my appearance whilst on the street, or being ignored at a car parts place, to being paid less than male colleagues, or in one situation completely talked over in a business meeting by someone who seemed to have their brain break by the concept that the senior consultant there was female.
Feminism is about equality for *all* people. Misandry is just as bad as misogyny however right now men still have the power. Every day you see that. Recent news paper reports are saying how amazing it is there are now so many women MPs. And how many is that? 90% women, 80% women. No its not even 30%. And that’s considered amazing. I consider it dire. When it become 50% I will be happy.
Bee Sharmaine
Wow……. For anyone comparing FGM to male circumcision…..google image to understand……..and to the guy moaning about being hard done by for being a man, if you feel like that in a ‘mans world’ then its because your not Alpha and never will be, you are the typically more subservient male, and your feelings about your interests not being protected do not stem from women, they stem from you not being able to be assertive or dominant enough to achieve things, its easier for you to ‘blame’ your interests not being protected than to face the fact that you just don’t ‘make the cut’ in the male hierarchy.
DavidByron
Feminism is anti-men. That’s not just the view of conservatives. That’s from opinion polling. What’s the purpose in pretending otherwise?
Bee Sharmaine
So this is the same as male circumcision? or as bad as? You can’t suggest that it is worse because surely that would undermine your argument?
Janet Wilkinson
“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.”
Yep agree with him 100%