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Friday, March 24, 2023

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North Carolina's Lt. Governor Is A Facebook Brawler Whose Posts Railed Against Gays, Blacks, And Jews

by Hunter Walker

Why Read it?

With Axios reporting that North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson is set to announce a gubernatorial bid at a rally next month, his comments have made headlines.

"I found a lot more when I dug deep into his Facebook archive. So much more.

It's shocking stuff from a high ranking elected official."

-TPM investigative reporter Hunter Walker
 

"Good Lord, this piece. Must Read."

-TPM founder Josh Marshall 

Teaser

Earlier this month, North Carolina Lieutenant Gov. Mark Robinson (R) delivered a pair of speeches that sparked speculation he might be running for governor next year. However, his remarks online are far more notable than any comments he's made in his official capacity.

Robinson, who was elected in 2020, likes to post on Facebook — a lot. His years of comments on the site include extreme attacks on the LGBT community, immigrants, Jews, and Black people.

Robinson has also expressed support for the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in the January 6 attack, whom he dubbed "political prisoners." He has shared posts suggesting shadowy "Satanic" and "occult" forces are plaguing society, along with multiple conspiracy theories about the "New World Order." In many of his posts, Robinson made clear that he enjoyed offending those who disagreed with his extreme views.

"Note to liberals; I'll accept 'Gay Pride' when you accept 'White Pride,'" Robinson wrote in a 2014 post.

Since taking office in 2021, Robinson has made headlines with his prolific Facebook output, including last year when he shared baseless conspiracy theories about the attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband. In 2021, Robinson sparked outrage from Jewish groups when he published a post filled with Yiddish slurs and references to Israeli currency wherein he declared the "Black Panther" superhero movie was based on a character that was created "​​by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic marxist" in an effort to "pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pockets." Those comments that drew attention are not Robinson's only controversial take on Jewish issues. Over the years, Robinson repeatedly questioned why criticism of Nazis was such a prominent part of political discourse. He argued that Nazism was defeated in World War II while the continued spread of communism was a more pressing problem. In one of these posts, which has not been reported before, Robinson seemed to veer into Holocaust denial.

"There is a REASON the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about the NAZI and the '6 million Jews' they murdered," wrote Robinson. "There is also a REASON those same liberals DO NOT FILL the airwaves with programs about the Communist and the 100+ million PEOPLE they murdered throughout the 20th century."

A devout Christian who is an outspoken pro-lifer, Robinson also wrote a post in 2012 admitting he once paid for an abortion. It, too, later received attention from the press.

But there's more. So much more.

With speculation mounting that he might run for governor, TPM reviewed seven years of Robinson's publicly viewable Facebook posts. The many hundreds of messages, which stretch back over a decade, are shocking, and include numerous statements that go well beyond anything that has previously been reported. Robinson and his office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. For this story, we are publishing Robinson's own words in as close to their original format as possible, including typos, non-standard punctuation, and capitalization.s, and, you know, meanness and snark, and things that aren't constructive." 

RELATED: NC Republican Who Posted Extremist Rants On Facebook Is Set To Run For Governor, Report Says

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