No denial from candidate for governor of North Carolina, who is suing CNN for report on his ‘Black NAZI’ porn profile

Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate, suggested that people who can’t take care of their children should be sterilized, according to one of a series of incendiary and racist social media posts from 2014 through 2019.

The commentary made in reference to Black families, which used terms a white supremacist would find appropriate, predates his time as the state’s lieutenant governor, but much of it came after his rise as a public figure on the right. Most of the social media posts have not previously been reported.

“I have more respect for loyal DOGS than I do for PEOPLE who don’t take care of their children,” Robinson wrote on his Facebook page in 2014. The post contained the hashtag “#haveyourdeadbeatsspayedandneutered”.

Robinson has been in a state of damage control for the last few weeks. Last month, CNN revealed old posts made under his profile on pornographic websites, in which the conservative candidate for governor purportedly described himself as a “Black NAZI” and pined for a return to the days of slavery.

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    1 month ago

    Yeah. If one of my friends said this, without the link and all the other bigoted garbage, I’d agree.

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      1 month ago

      If you agree that forced sterilization of ppl is ok (something racists are famous for saying/doing) regardless of reasoning you’re as big an asshole as the racists.

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        1 month ago

        “I have more respect for loyal DOGS than I do for PEOPLE who don’t take care of their children," in the vacuum they’re describing, could be interpreted as having a lot of respect for dogs and little respect for abusive parents, which are not asshole takes.