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June 12, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Dominic Raab vs the Obnoxious Feminist Bigots

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	On the 24th of May 2019, British Prime Minister Theresa May decided she had failed in her role as the person who would deliver Brexit.
	Our politics may be under strain, but there is so much that is good about this country, so much to be proud of, so much to be optimistic about.
	I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold.
	The second female Prime Minister, but certainly not the last.
	I do so with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.
	There is indeed a great deal about Britain that is good, and May's tears did seem spontaneous and genuine.
	For all the negativity that had been built up around her time in office, it seemed that it was incompetence and not malice that brought us to where we are now.
	And the first name on everyone's lips is an old favourite with the British public, Boris Johnson.
	Thank you, thank you.
	Do you regret your comments?
	Do you regret your comments?
	I don't want to go and have a cup of tea.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you, sir.
	There you go.
	Do you regret your comment, sir?
	I want you.
	If I have a cup of tea, will you answer my question?
	No, I'm here solely on a humanitarian mission because you've been here all day and you've been incredibly patient and incredibly and I feel very sorry for you because I have nothing to say about this matter except off you some teeth.
	Okay, go on and quickly became the favourite to win.
	He campaigned for Brexit and has been quite clear on his position on the question now.
	We will leave on October 31st, deal or no deal, and we will not give the EU 39 billion.
	A raft of Conservative MPs also threw their hats into the ring to compete against Boris, but one candidate in particular piqued my interest.
	On the 27th of May, ex-Brexit negotiator Dominic Raab announced his candidacy.
	On the subject of Brexit, Raab was not noticeably dissimilar to Boris.
	He wished to fight for a fairer deal, and if the EU is intransigent on the issue, then to leave whatever happens on the 31st of October.
	He has also been remarkably firm regarding Parliament's opinion towards Brexit, which is broadly staunchly remain.
	Raab said that he would be resolute in his attitudes towards the way the Parliament has handled Brexit, saying he would not ask for an extension and pointing out that Parliament can only prevent a no-deal Brexit if the Prime Minister is willing to acquiesce to it, which he would not.
	Dominic Raab is our Brexiteer, and despite the howling from the Remainers, it appears that he will remain firm on the issue.
	There is moral force behind this and a growing understanding within the Conservative Party that if they do not get us out of the European Union sooner rather than later, Nigel Farage is going to eat them all up.
	So, when interviewing Dominic Raab, the Westminster media decided to change the angle of their attack.
	If they can't crush Raab on the aspect of Brexit, they'd attack him on something else.
	Would you describe yourself as a feminist?
	No, probably not, but I would describe myself as someone who's a champion of equality and meritocracy.
	In response to Raab's declaration of principled opposition to feminism, that is, it's unfair, eight of his fellow Conservative candidates promptly declared themselves to be man-hating communists.
	These are Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, Michael Gove, Matthew Hancock, Andrea Leadsome, Rory Stewart, and James Cleverly.
	After sending out the virtue signal, these eight quote-unquote conservative MPs were chewed out by a man-hating communist.
	The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley said, A load of men saying that they are feminists to try and outdo other men in a competition where they think it is their divine right to rule is not feminism.
	What the hell has Boris ever done for the rights of women?
	Boris Johnson has to remember that when we are talking about feminism, we are talking about all women, not just the women he chooses.
	Boris Johnson called loads of women where I live letterboxes.
	It is racist and sexist, and he has done absolutely nothing to go and talk to Muslim women about the reasons that they do anything.
	It seems that the left-wing feminists do not recognize quote-unquote right-wing politicians also signaling as feminists.
	Women will bear the brunt of any form of Brexit.
	What we are seeing in this leadership contest goes far beyond a harmless co-option of the feminist label.
	We are witnessing an age-old anti-feminist tactic.
	The privileged few are radically pushing forward an agenda to maintain structures of oppression that prevent women from fighting for the change they need.
	We must not just shake off their false, self-congratulatory use of the term feminist, but fight against their anti-feminist agendas with all we can muster.
	Apparently, the Conservatives have an anti-feminist agenda which the man-hating communists are going to fight with all they can muster.
	Why on earth would a single conservative do anything but consistently mock, deride and debunk feminism?
	Intersectional feminism is a particularly illiberal worldview that asserts that men as a class are oppressing women as a class, and therefore men need to be disadvantaged to benefit women.
	It is no different to the idea that the rich are oppressing the poor, which is why it shouldn't come as a surprise that feminists are often socialists.
	If I could have a pure socialist ideology and win in seats like this, you can bet your bottom dollar I would take that chance.
	But I'm a pragmatist and that's just simply not going to happen.
	But if I could, you know, I could nationalize every single inch of this place, I would.
	Conservatives should be liberals of some stripe, and as such, they should be able to easily see the class conflict inherent in modern feminism and call it out for the communist subversion it clearly is, which is precisely what Dominic Raab did back in 2011 in an article titled, We Must End Feminist Bigotry.
	In this article, Raab destroys the gender pay gap argument, calls out Labour's obsolete equality and diversity agenda as promoting some of the most flagrant discrimination against men, and then points out that men are getting a raw deal.
	Men work longer hours, die earlier, but retire later than women, young men are falling behind in schools, and husbands are systematically disadvantaged by the courts.
	He then calls out the subtle sexism against men.
	Men caused whatever problem of the day is getting a feminist granny panties in a bunch.
	Can you imagine the outrage if such trite generalizations were made about women or other minorities?
	Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots.
	He finishes his piece with, Young British couples are tired of the equality bandwagon, dreamt up in the 1960s, pitting men and women against each other.
	We need consistent equality for men and women, an end to soft feminist bigotry and support for hardworking families trying to juggle competing priorities in their hectic daily lives.
	Absolute men!
	In 2011, the long march of the man-hating communists through our institutions was not nearly as advanced as it is now.
	But even then, the BBC hosts attempted to hold his feet to the fire on such blasphemous comments.
	The Home Secretary Theresa May has accused a Conservative MP from Surrey of gender warfare.
	Dominic Raab had said feminists are amongst the most obnoxious bigots and that men are victims of flagrant discrimination.
	Theresa May, who was using her time to signal gender solidarity with Labour.
	We should be trying to get away from gender warfare and the politics of difference, as my honourable friend has said, but I might suggest to him that labelling feminists as obnoxious bigots is not the way forward to do that.
	However, Dominic Raub doubled down on his demolition of feminism and rounded on the politically correct culture of Westminster itself and the dirty, dirty smear merchants.
	I gave very specific examples of what I was referring to, and I've been distorted and mischaracterised all week, which is fine.
	A bit disappointing from a minister, but there we go.
	But I'm gonna not gonna be put off by excessive political correctness from talking about what I think is a big issue, which is that equality cuts both ways.
	We've got to reaffirm the principle of meritocracy.
	So when, eight years later, Raab is called upon to answer for his crimes against feminism, does he back down?
	Of course not.
	It's time to triple down, baby.
	They're obnoxious, man-hating bigots, and everyone should know it.
	You talk about fairness, but you in the past have called feminists obnoxious bigots.
	You said people who use food banks simply have a cash flow problem.
	You want to abolish the Equalities Office.
	Is your version of fairness everyone else's version of fairness?
	Well, look, everyone has a different view about how we make this country fairer.
	You've taken a few selective snippets.
	The reality is on something like the comments that I made, not about feminism, but about those people who talk a good game on equality but then go and say sexist thing about men.
	I think that's just double standards.
	An absolute mad layer.
	The Guardian was, naturally, outraged and picked up the phone to get a statement from an obnoxious bigot.
	Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said Raab had called people like me obnoxious bigots.
	Yes, he did.
	He did indeed call you and people like you obnoxious bigots.
	Other obnoxious bigots decided to chime in and say that this time it was not them being obnoxious bigots, my good sir.
	No, not at all.
	This time it is you who is the obnoxious bigot.
	Aha!
	This particular obnoxious bigot was just like her fellow man-hating communists and gave us a clear statement of her faith.
	Men cannot be victims of sexism, but they do benefit from it directly.
	Men, the class, are never the oppressed.
	They are the oppressors.
	Therefore, anything the women'sists say or do is by definition punching up and is therefore excusable for murky and morally dubious reasons that fall apart under a moment's worth of scrutiny.
	And as if to prove that the long march through the institutions had been a resounding success, the feminist lobby decided to take to popular breakfast show Good Morning Britain to ask the question: is it okay not to be a feminist?
	All it's doing is making the focus and the support for women's rights.
	That cannot be a bad thing.
	That can only be a good thing.
	When Dominic Raubb called out the politically correct culture of Westminster in 2011, he probably had no idea just how insular and backwards it would become.
	A 2015 survey from the Fawcett Society found that only 9.2% of women described themselves as feminists, despite seeing men and women broadly as political equals.
	When asked, more than a quarter of the respondents replied that it was quote, bitchy.
	I have absolutely no idea where they got that impression from.
	Other candidates of the milkshake attack trend include the UKIP MEP candidate Carl Benjamin.
	You familiar with that gentleman, Jess?
	Yeah, I'm familiar with the neckbeard that is Carl Benjamin.
	No, I don't think that you should throw things at politicians.
	I don't think that you should attack them.
	you should win by being better than them, which is what I am currently doing to Carl Benjamin.
	After failing to judge public opinion about feminism so catastrophically, one has to wonder what the Westminster bubble thinks they're getting in return when they virtue signal to feminists.
	Over 90% of women aren't feminists and don't like the label because of the people who use it.
	Wouldn't it make sense to virtue signal away from feminism to garner more support from a larger voting base?
	Fortunately, this question was answered by a demonstration from none other than ex-Guido Fawkes smear merchant Alex Wickham.
	Now attempting to smear people for profit working for BuzzFeed, Alex published a smear piece on Dominic Raab's past objection to feminism in an attempt to shame him back into line.
	Unfortunately for Alex, the perception of feminism in Westminster is vastly different to the perception of feminism outside of Westminster, and by cataloguing a selection of Dominic Raab's greatest sins against diversity, he made him look like an absolute legend.
	In an article titled, Dominic Raab Once Argued for Gender Paid Audits to be scrapped and claimed men get a raw deal, and subtitled, The Tory Leadership Candidate Has Faced Repeated Questions About His Attitudes Towards Women Since He Launched His Campaign, Alex Wickham begins his attack with this framing.
	The subject of women's rights has proven a tricky one for Dominic Raab during the Conservative Party leadership contest so far.
	Uh, not really, Alex.
	Raab's been pretty clear.
	He's not in favour of treating the genders differently when it comes to professional settings.
	He feels that it pits men and women against one another, and that's detrimental to society.
	The only person who wouldn't think that is a person who simply hasn't listened to a word that Dominic Raab has actually said.
	Alex's framing having completely fallen apart, he then proceeds with, His campaign has been on the back foot over the last two weeks following intense scrutiny in Westminster over his record on women.
	Interest which stems from past comments he has made against gender equality.
	Again, no, Alex.
	Dominic Raab is a married man and a father.
	His record with women is nothing.
	He's not being accused of anything.
	And his comments on feminism and political correctness are, in fact, part of his appeal.
	An appeal you failed to understand when you drew up a list of very reasonable points Dominic Raab had previously made, to which I was previously unaware.
	BuzzFeed News has unearthed a series of other controversial statements about women's rights made by Raab over the last decade.
	The prime ministerial candidate has said that gender pay audits should be scrapped, claimed that it is men who get a raw deal and that women have an unfair advantage in the workplace, and argued that the Government Equalities Office, which is responsible for policies relating to women, should be abolished.
	In 2010, Raab wrote an article for the Sunday Times in which he outlined his opposition to gender pay audits.
	The government should shelve gender pay audits, he wrote.
	The gap between male and female pay has halved since 1970 and rising numbers of better educated young women are landing top jobs.
	Sure, there's a time lag, but corporate gender quotas won't help.
	What does the tick box ethnic gender social utopia look like?
	At best, it is a recipe for confusion, at worst, it is bitterly divisive.
	In the same Sunday Times article, Raab suggested that as a white middle-aged MP, he was the victim of racism and classism from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
	I was more than just personally irked when the EHRC head said there were too many white middle-class lawyers in Parliament.
	That statement was both explicitly racist and classist, yet nobody blinked.
	In 2012, Raab wrote a report for the Thatcherite Think Tank Centre for Policy Studies titled, Unleashing the British Underdog, in which he said the Government Equalities Office should be abolished.
	He said, The Government Equalities Office and the Equality and Human Rights Commission have become state-funded lobbying groups for policies that promote positive discrimination, social quotas, and other socially engineering egalitarian outcomes.
	The Government Equalities Office serves little purpose, it should be abolished.
	In 2013, Raab wrote another article for the Sunday Times in which he opposed quotas to increase the number of women directors on boards and argued that women now have an unfair advantage in the workplace.
	Describing the quotas as morally wrong, Raab claimed that younger men suffer as a result of previous male domination for which they bear no responsibility.
	Women now enjoying equal opportunity gain an unfair advantage because of historic discrimination that did not affect them.
	The 2013 article echoed comments made by Raab in 2011, in which he said men are getting a raw deal and claimed some of the most flagrant discrimination is against men.
	Labelling feminists obnoxious bigots, Raab said, 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.
	All of these statements are factually true statements that are demonstrable using the official figures provided to us by the British government.
	Which is presumably why the replies to Alex Wickham's announcement tweet of his destruction of Dominic Raab's character often read as follows.
	Good man, Dominic Raab, here's right.
	He's spot on.
	He's right.
	Seems reasonable to me.
	He's correct.
	Thanks for letting us know.
	He is going up in my estimation.
	Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with most of the comments here and point out he's probably correct.
	He is correct.
	Gets my vote every time.
	Wow, someone that might actually be worth voting for.
	He speaks a lot of sense.
	This journalism or activism?
	Not sure you're helping, says Alex Wickham.
	Activism then.
	The question is, why is Dominic Raab putting his professional reputation in the line of fire with the feminist media mafia in order to stand by his principles?
	It would surely just be easier to virtue signal in the politically correct way in order to prevent these kinds of hit pieces being published.
	Why didn't he do it?
	I do not know Dominic Raab, but I would suggest that it could be because of his background as the descendant of an immigrant, a father, and as a young man who lost his own father at an early age and found out just how hard it could be for a boy and then a young man without a father figure in his life.
	Perhaps keen to soften what has been a hard image.
	A boxer since his teens, a black belt in karate.
	A man who insists he can fight his way to a better Brexit deal.
	I think I've got Union Jack there embroidered into my trousers and a traditional 70s bowl cut.
	And how old were you when your dad passed away?
	So dad died when I was 12.
	So that must have been pretty tough.
	It's pretty tough, of course it was.
	And I think the thing with any loss in life is it teaches you about preciousness.
	So I spend a lot of time with my boys and want to be a very hands-on dad.
	His father came to Britain after fleeing the Nazis in Czechoslovakia.
	A story of a second chance in life, which Dominic Raab says he now wants to afford others.
	There was also the opportunity that this country gave a young lad with no English who went to a grammar school, got a good job, didn't go to university.
	And that opportunity society, that vision of fairness, I think is something that we need to revive and revitalize for young people today.
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