Mark Robinson

Mark Keith Robinson is the current lieutenant governor of North Carolina and the Republican failed nominee for the 2024 North Carolina gubernatorial election. He's also a racist, sexist, holocaust denier, among other wingnuttery. Robinson is a deeply flawed candidate; his flaws were well known before he ran for governor. North Carolina Republican state treasurer Dale Folwell said that the GOP leadership and consultants who selected him "did know, should have known or, didn’t want to know" about them.
Thankfully, he was defeated by Josh Stein in the election.Democrat Josh Stein defeats Republican Mark Robinson in N.C. governor's race by Alexandra Marquez, November 5, 2024, NBC News
==Abortion==
Despite being against abortion calling it "murder" and "genocide" as long ago as 2018, back in the 1980s, he paid for his then-girlfriend and future-wife to get an abortion.GOP front-runner for North Carolina governor supported banning abortions without exceptions. Now he avoids using the ‘a-word’ by Andrew Kaczynski & Em Steck (4:00 AM EST, Wed January 17, 2024) CNN.
==Antisemitism==
Robinson is also a long history of antisemitism, including Holocaust denialism.This GOP candidate has always been antisemitic — so why are Republicans only panicking about him now? Thursday’s news that Mark Robinson had called himself a “black NAZI!” was shocking, but not surprising by Emily Tamkin (September 19, 2024) Forward. He had referred to himself as a "Black Nazi". 
He said that the movie Black Panther was "created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by (a) satanic marxist" and "was only created to pull the out of your Schvartze pockets".Muslim ‘invaders’ and transgender ‘delusion’: Lt. gov. candidate’s posts draw criticism by Colin Campbell (October 10, 2020 09:00 AM) The News & Observer.
==Racism==
 
When running for lieutenant governor, Robinson claimed that systemic racism isn’t real, stating, "The system of government that we have in this nation is not systemically racist. In fact, it is not racist at all."Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson says there’s no ‘systemic racism’ in America during clash with Democrats over new social studies standards by Greg Childress (January 28, 2021 10:00 am) NC Newsline.
==Gun rights==
Robinson is a staunch defenders of gun rights. In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, a Greensboro city council was held where the subject was whether or not to cancel a gun show, Robinson spoke at this event in defence of gun rights. His speech went viral among conservatives. This was his debut in the public eye.‘Come hell or high water,’ citizens will keep gun rights, NC man vows in viral video by Camila MOlina & Aaron MOody (April 06, 2018 03:22 PM; Updated April 08, 2018 04:31 PM) The News & Observer.
=="Some folks' need killing!"==
At a church in White Lake, North Carolina, Robinson insisted that "some folks' need killing". He added that "it’s a matter of necessity [...] when you have wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering and raping. It’s time to call out, uh, those guys in green and go have them handled." 
Attempts to depict this concerning speech more mildly may choose to focus on the mentions of murder and rape. 
Unfortunately Mark's other statements in the speech, such as "we now find ourselves struggling with people who have evil intent. You know, there’s a time when we used to meet evil on the battlefield, and guess what we did to it? We killed it!" and "we need to start handling our business again. [...] Don’t you feel it slipping away? [...] the tenets of socialism and communism start coming into clearer focus [...] They cancel you. They dox you. They kick you off social media. [...] Folks, it’s happening." make this a very hard sell. The people who "need killing" are not depicted explicitly and the necessity of violence is instead treated as a 
==Islamophobia==
Robinson believes in the myth that immigrants are trying to replace white people by saying that Muslims “are not ‘immigrants,’ they are INVADERS”.
==Homophobia and transphobia== 
On February 3 2024, Robinson threatened trans women with arrest over using bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity, suggesting they "find a corner outside somewhere".Nick Robertson, Trans women should be arrested over bathroom use: NC Gov candidate Mark Robinson. The Hill, 12 February 2024.
Despite his hatred for LGBTQIA+, in a CNN exposé, people said he has enjoyed lesbianEx-Porn Shop Employees Say Mark Robinson Was A Regular. He Denies It. by Jeffrey Billman & Joe Killian (September 3, 2024) The Assembly. as well as transgender porn, calling himself a "perv" afterwards. A report from Politico also linked Robinson's e-mail address to an account on the infamous cheating site Ashley Madison.
==CNN Leak==
During his 2024 run for the North Carolina Gubanational election, CNN leaked some profiles in numerous porn forums belonging to Robinson.‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum by Andrew Kaczynski & Em Steck (3:21 PM EDT, September 19, 2024) CNN. In these profiles he said some batshit things, most infamously calling himself a “black Nazi”, among other things, on a message board for pornography (primarily one called "Nude Africa"), of all places.
How these profiles came to be discovered was by going through the usernames and email addresses that he went through for his other public profiles, such as Twitter ('minisoldr', for example). It didn’t help him that he had included his full name, and other information he laid out that can’t be just coughed up to coincidences.
He and his campaign have since denied this, though it’s hard to believe him when the evidence follows a pattern of behavior and hasn’t done much to prove the evidence wrong, nor claim to be working to do so.
In the CNN exposé, he claimed that when he was 14, he peeped into a women’s room two times, something that he later fantasized about. So, one could scoff at his accusation of trans women being creepy men who want to sneak in the women’s bathrooms as self-projection.
Clearly unashamed of himself, Robinson has said a lot of bigoted comments on the various porn forums that he frequented. Here are some of them:
*He claimed that slavery wasn’t that bad of a thing, wishing for its return, claiming some people deserve to be slaves and that he’d buy some himself.
*Called himself a black Nazi.
*He preferred Hitler over Obama.
*Used a ton of slurs directed at African Americans, Jews, Muslims and others.
*He made his hatred of Martin Luther King very apparent, calling him slurs and other insults, in stark contrast to how Donald Trump had compared Robinson to King on multiple occasions.Trump has embraced NC’s Mark Robinson, calling him ‘Martin Luther King on steroids’ by Avi Bajpai (September 19, 2024 6:55 PM) The News & Observer.
*When a message board user accused him of being part of the KKK for Robinson’s comments on MLK, Robinson used another slur against King (very mature indeed).
Soon after the CNN story went public, Robinson's election chances vanished overnight, as his GOP colleagues began to distance themselves from him while even his own campaign staffers quit.John Bowden, Half of Mark Robinson’s staffers leave lieutenant governor’s office after dramatic campaign exodus. The Independent, 25 September 2024.
As of December 2024 he's still using the minisoldr handle, despite his repeated denials that the handle belongs to him.
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