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”
Captian Obvious
Well if you think he is wrong about them being bigots… show some proof of Western Feminist not being bigots. Go ahead, it shouldn’t be hard to.
It will only take a few seconds to show an endless list of feminist and feminist powers like NOW and WAR being hateful towards men. But even the Emma Watson speech at the UN was biased and pushing false propaganda. WAGE gap has been shown time and time again to be false. Rape “culture” isn’t real, using a falsified Mary Koss statistic of 1 in 4 is a fear mongering tactic to make all men look like monsters. Domestic Violence is equally female to male as it is male to female with 70% of non-reciprocated violence being female to male.
Western feminist have yet to live up to their claim that they are about “equality”. They just simply use the definition like it overrides their actions.
Shouldn’t feminist want him to be about the “equality act”, don’t you want “equality”? Or are you upset that his stance is ACTUAL equality… which means taking away privileged bullshit women have as well as the things men might have over women (which is actually not a lot.)
Carrie
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Captian Obvious
@Carrie None of those are “proof” of feminist NOT being bigots, they are simply 3 images of “quotes” or “statements” claiming not to be anti-male.
I can have a group called “happy positivity” and CLAIM to be all about good and happiness. But if my group did NOTHING BUT go around bullying, attacking, slandering, pushing laws, protesting false issues, and doing nothing happy or positive… then the “definition” means NOTHING. Even if I make happy little posters filled with claims otherwise.
Show some PROOF of Western Feminist not being bigots. Actual actions by feminist doing something positive towards men.