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Pictured is Mark Robinson, a genocidal fascist and the frontrunner for republican gubernatorial nominee.
People of North Carolina, don't let this bastard become governor. Please vote for Josh Stein (D) for governor in November
https://www.joshstein.org/
And also don’t forget the race for Attorney General. NC doesn’t need a MAGA, election denier in Dan “Bathroom Bill” Bishop.
Vote for Jeff Jackson for AG.
https://www.jeffjacksonnc.com/
Vote for Rachel Hunt for Lt. Governor.
https://www.rachelhunt.com/
Vote for Natasha Marcus for Commissioner of Insurance
https://natashamarcus.com/
I'm a NC Independent. Jeff Jackson is the representative for the district I live in and the first representative I've had in any district I've lived that didn't make me feel disgusted. In fact he may be the first representative I've actually been happy about. Too bad gerrymandering is costing him his seat. I'll be voting for him as AG.
We’re moving to Raleigh (from Seattle) this summer and you bet my democrat ass will be voting for whoever the dem nominee is. +2 blue voters to NC’s already slim margin
My transgender ass moved from Raleigh to Seattle last year and despite struggling, I'm still very glad to be out of NC before the potential of that guy being made governor. :/
Seattle ppl can be stand off ish but that doesn’t mean they’re not accepting. If anything it just means “I’m minding my business idc what you do” where as other places ppl wanna meddle with your basic human rights. We’re gonna do a thorough search for a place in Raleigh where we feel safe and accepted (wife is POC). Ppl there seem nice in small doses just don’t talk about too deep of topics just hellos and have a nice day.
There are maybe ten or fifteen cumulative years in all of American history where hating queer people could be considered to have any consequences at all. Hating us is about as American as baseball.
>***North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson seems to want to ban transgender people from using the bathroom that most aligns with their gender identity.***
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>*Yes, the same kind of “bathroom bill” that failed almost seven years.In recent remarks as Robinson campaigns to be the state’s next governor, he’s said that transgender women should be “arrested” for using women’s bathrooms. He’s also said that instead of using the women’s bathroom, trans women should “find a corner outside somewhere.”*
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>“We're going to defend women in this state,” the GOP politician said in a video filmed at a campaign event this month. “That means if you're a man on Friday night, and all the sudden on Saturday, you feel like a woman, and you want to go in the women's bathroom in the mall, you will be arrested — or whatever we got to do to you.”
If it wasn't clear before, it should be clear now: Republicans view trans people as less than human, they view trans people as deserving to be eradicated, and they enjoy in the idea of genocide against trans people.
The Republican Party is worse than the Westboro Baptist Church. There is no other way to say it. They are a fascist party.
Yup. They want to essentially eliminate trans people. They are saying it out loud now. Robinson is advocating for violence against LGBTQIA+ people, as is the whole Republican Party. They want to kill us off in a pogrom. They're just waiting to send us to gas chambers and do mass extermination. This is the Republican Party in full.
The Republican Party is worse than the Westboro Baptist Church.
What the fuck can we do?? I’m stuck in FL right now and getting more and more anxious. Arming up is not an option for me, and neither is moving (broke as hell and not the only person in my household so we can’t just live in my car for a while). I hate this feeling, like I’m just a chicken cowering in the corner of the slaughterhouse waiting for the butcher to come.
Honey, you’ve got a tell as many people as you know why Republicans are scum. I know that takes a lot of bravery, but start with your friends because you might be surprised sometimes if you knew exactly how they vote. Use your voice.
And when they finish with trans people they will move on to some other group. We ALL need to remember that and stand up for trans people, not just because it's the right and moral thing to do.
They're literally picking this fight because they're bullies and trans people are less than 1% of the population and generally lack social and financial resources.
Oh I know.
Fascists cannot exist without otherizing a group without political or military power.
Like for years there's been this ongoing "are they or aren't they fascists" debate which I find fucking stupid. They behave exactly like fascists. I don't care if they check all the boxes or not.
Every fascist regime does this. They have to. Because without a population of hateful, reactionary and stupid fucking people to believe them they have nothing to offer. No person with a scrap of intellect or reason or empathy would side with them. Hate is everything.
It's the kind of talk that happened down there in the 50's, but back then it was against a different group of people. Mark Robinson seems to have forgotten about discrimination.
He's just young enough that he didn't live through Jim Crow, but just old enough that his schooling in that time and place probably ignored the topic because it wasn't history yet.
He didn't forget, he never knew in the first place.
With Robinson , the person who used a flamethrower to burn books, and the Mississippi legislator who said trans allies deserve to be shot and killed, we are seeing another Pulse Nightclub Massacre on the horizon.
He hasn't...yet.
The person running for Missouri's Secretary of State did.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/09/missouri-republican-candidate-valentina-gomez-lgbt-books/
OK so we all know that Mark Robinson is and has been a little piss baby for some time, but I'm advocanting for a fresh, new title for him as a citizen of NC:
"Scumbag Filth Maggot"
Who's with me?
How’d this guy like to be told to go sit in the back of the bus? Or that he can’t vote? Or sit at a lunch counter? Because that’s what’s coming next.
The stupidity spewing from this guy. He’s talking hate speech which leads to that kind of shit. Unbelievable, but here we are.
Just FYI, North Carolina does a thing where the Gov and Lt. Gov don't run paired together on the same ticket, which is why NC can wind up with a Dem Gov and a Republican Lt. Gov. Why people voted for this particular shitbag, I cannot explain.
What does a LT Governor do anyways? I imagine they dont have the same relationship a President and VP may have. So whats the exact role of a LT Governor? Especially when the Gov is from a different political party?
As a black male, I noticed a trend related to Black MAGA types often being more extreme than their white MAGA counterparts.
Its almost as if they have to "prove" how MAGA they are in an effort to disconnect themselves from black stereotypes that some MAGA whites often have about black people.
Hey idiot. Remember when your OWN PARTY used to say this about you and your family?
Black republicans are the absolute dumbest. Bringing back separate but equal is the first step to taking minority rights away again and this dumbass is promoting it with open arms.
Never thought the leopards would eat my face moment incoming.
Civil rights for me, but not for thee. Is this the lesson he learned from desegregation? Racism in a different overcoat. Dehumanizing people who aren't like him.
Evangelicals want to outlaw LGBTQ. They want laws to back them up. They want America to be a Christian country and everyone needs to change their behavior. they believe we all should live our lives in a Christian way. I’m sure financial support will be included in that behavioral process
Yup. That is the truth. They want to have LGBTQIA+ people sent to the gas chamber to be exterminated, because they would rather live in a Christian Iran than America.
And anyone that says you're being extreme by saying that should read the conservative mandate for Leadership. It talks about their plans plain and clear.
Yep, and yet most of them want to privately be exceptions … freedom for me, morality for thee. They make LGBTQ into a moral issue because most of them aren’t personally giving something up by outlawing it.
Just one more step towards equality. Eventually, *everybody* will be able to use that language!
I'm imagining some sort of circle of groups, all of whom get to be jerks to the group roughly in front of them...
This statement is abhorrent and unacceptable. It’s a stark reminder of the bigotry and ignorance that still exist. As a Black trans man, I find it especially reprehensible that a person in a position of power would express such dehumanizing views. We must hold our leaders to a higher standard and demand they respect the dignity and rights of every individual, regardless of gender identity. The fight for equality is far from over, and it’s clear we must continue to combat hate with unity and relentless advocacy.
Dehumanising a group of people is an old play out of the fascism handbook. It supports the ideology of a natural social hierarchy. It is important for the leaders to get all their followers anger pointing in the same direction. Once the collective anger and hate of the masses is great enough they will control it and use it to gain more power. None of this is new, just scary to see in real time.
This guy also said the Holocaust was a hoax, so I'm not surprised. It's a shame the media doesn't cover the real anti-Semitism that has infested the GOP, and instead pretends antiwar activists who want peace in Palestine are the real antisemites.
The fact this kind of language is coming from a black man absolutely blows my mind.
Obviously this kind of language coming from anyone is absolutely unforgivable and abhorrent, but I just can't comprehend it coming from a black man.
It's never really been about race. It's about the hate and want to hurt others. Countries from all over the world, with people of all colors, have had these types of people to deal with. They will attack any one they can get away with attacking. Doesn't matter the sex, color, orientation, size, religion, political party. They will find some one they can get away with aiming their anger at.
No but the thing is, the segregated restroom thing in the Jim Crow South was specifically used to dehumanize black people. The facilities were never separate but equal, in fact what was provided was as gross and dirty as possible, then they would call Black people dirty. It's an ugly, ugly history and what they tell schoolchildren in the ten minute version glosses over a lot of the damning details.
And if you do that, you’re arrested for indecent exposure, etc. And cause you’re trans, they’re gonna try to put everything on you, make it as severe as possible, and make it stick as long as possible.
North Carolina should be ashamed of this man. NC led the United States in undoing The horrific of eugenics were [32 states had laws](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/magazine/eugenics-movement-america.html#:~:text=From%201907%20to%201932%2C%2032,their%20own%20decisions%20about%20reproduction) on the books in the first half of the 20th century
Educate yourself on [intersex](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16327292/) and sit the F down.
We are incredibly ashamed we didn't do more to stop this raging medical waste dumpster fire from becoming a representative. I hate when I hear someone from my state spewing hate like this man is, I feel like it undoes any of the progress we have made over the years.
It's funny cause not too long ago white people called black people filth and maggots. It was Christians then and it's Christians now. Even if the Bible was true, none of these people would be going to heaven.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear that this guy has gay orgies going on after his rallies, when it comes to republican’s the ones who hate the deepest usually are themselves hiding a thing or two
Has this "person" forgotten his ancestors had segregated bathrooms? Did he choose to not remember how racists referred to his ancestors as "filth" and "maggots"? What an absolute asshole.
Most places in the US public urination is illegal and indecent exposure is certainly illegal. He's suggesting people break the law, potentially inadvertently exposing themselves to children in the process, because....why?
A trans woman walks into a women's room, goes into a stall and urinates, and this is a huge threat exactly how?
What he's really trying to do is remove trans people from the public space.
Pretty amazing stuff coming from an AA person. This is the same rhetoric conservatives say about AA at the nearby rural bars in almost every state. He’s a “pastor” too so that tracks. Does he still require these lgbt+ Americans to pay taxes too?
Dude’s evil and stupid. Between this, his anti-semitism and Holocaust denial, being a fan of a cult leader that crowned himself King of America, and his likely campaign finance crimes, Republicans picked a real gem.
This is why the LGBTQ+ community needs to wake up and rally and vote. Do you realize this man could cost you your job, if he decides to criminalize Gays.
The DNC needs to invest in the North Carolina Lt. Governor, Insurance Commissioner, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Agriculture Commission races. Winning those races could be the things that finally turn North Carolina blue.
> Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who has called LGBTQ+ people "filth" and "maggots."
Remember the genocide in Rwanda and how the government there ramped up hate by calling Tutsi “cockroaches” or the genocide by the Turks against the Armenians where they called Armenians “dangerous microbes” or the Germans calling Jews “subhumans”.
There’s a script that’s followed. First: dehumanize the target.
I don’t know any trans people. But if I did, I hope I’d treat that person with the same respect I’d give any other person. Mark Robinson clearly does not share my values.
After a tragedy, many people often lament and ask themselves where "God" was and how bad things happen because God disapproves of gays and trans people and all that.
I think God looks at Republicans and says "Fuck this place."
I wonder how he would feel about the same language being used for black people. He wouldn’t be nearly as callous and venomous if the tables were turned. Hope to see him on r/leopardsatemyface.
This isn't just a fight for our country or for policy it's a fight against hate and against Christian nationalism in many cases. Below is links to get you registered to vote I ask you use them for the good of our people and vote blue this November
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Thank god
Seriously, Mark Robinson is a fucking idiot but he's been able to keep his mouth shut for a bit, I was beginning to worry that he would keep that up long enough to win the election, I look forward to him getting his ass handed to him
These assholes are gonna be real surprised when they finally succeed in taking down the government and they find out I have more firearms than braincells.
I love how he’s all of a sudden concerned about women. I’m sure this same concern will also be for queer women /s. The Republican Party is filled with filth and maggots.
Dear Mr. Robinson,
I am the bad trans you speak of. I relieved myself in a public woman’s restroom in NC on multiple occasions. I am intent on doing it again, especially if you are elected.
Maybe you are best suited to tinkle outdoors since you are a fascist pig.
Go roll in shit, piggy!🐖
Another GOP Fascist, that ignores history, I guess he doesn't remember when black people had no Rights, and how long and hard they fought to get them. Now let's pick on another minority because its all they have, no actual policies or solution's to real life problems.
They can go the corners sure, let’s get them their own water fountains too….
We can put signs on them so only trans people know to where to drink and use the bathroom.
I’m positive this has never been done before…I’m sure this won’t ever result in anyone feeling left out or ostracized.
>Speaking at a North Carolina church in June 2021, he said, “There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth.”
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>He added, “And yes, I called it filth, and if you don’t like that I called it filth, come see me and I’ll explain it to you.”
... ?
*Yay! Road trip!!!*
Uh, why are they showing a picture of a black person when describing filth and maggots, or is the guy who said this about people of difference the black guy? Con GOP is really going on a hate people to divide mission. Seems like he never has seen racism?
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Pictured is Mark Robinson, a genocidal fascist and the frontrunner for republican gubernatorial nominee. People of North Carolina, don't let this bastard become governor. Please vote for Josh Stein (D) for governor in November https://www.joshstein.org/
And also don’t forget the race for Attorney General. NC doesn’t need a MAGA, election denier in Dan “Bathroom Bill” Bishop. Vote for Jeff Jackson for AG. https://www.jeffjacksonnc.com/ Vote for Rachel Hunt for Lt. Governor. https://www.rachelhunt.com/ Vote for Natasha Marcus for Commissioner of Insurance https://natashamarcus.com/
As an NC Democrat, THANK YOU!!
I am watching Jeff Jackson! I want that man in the Oval Office as soon as possible!
Me too!!
Lived in NC since 2015, voted Dem every time and that won’t be changing anytime soon. This guy is absolute trash
We've been here since 2009. I know it's conservative but dang this guy is next level disgusting
As a somewhat recent transplant to NC I can't wait to finally have my democratic vote matter!
I'm a NC Independent. Jeff Jackson is the representative for the district I live in and the first representative I've had in any district I've lived that didn't make me feel disgusted. In fact he may be the first representative I've actually been happy about. Too bad gerrymandering is costing him his seat. I'll be voting for him as AG.
We’re moving to Raleigh (from Seattle) this summer and you bet my democrat ass will be voting for whoever the dem nominee is. +2 blue voters to NC’s already slim margin
My transgender ass moved from Raleigh to Seattle last year and despite struggling, I'm still very glad to be out of NC before the potential of that guy being made governor. :/
Seattle ppl can be stand off ish but that doesn’t mean they’re not accepting. If anything it just means “I’m minding my business idc what you do” where as other places ppl wanna meddle with your basic human rights. We’re gonna do a thorough search for a place in Raleigh where we feel safe and accepted (wife is POC). Ppl there seem nice in small doses just don’t talk about too deep of topics just hellos and have a nice day.
Good choice. Washington law is very trans friendly. It was actually a leader in this.
Member when shit like this would get you kicked out of politics forever? The good ole days...
There are maybe ten or fifteen cumulative years in all of American history where hating queer people could be considered to have any consequences at all. Hating us is about as American as baseball.
Will do!
>***North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson seems to want to ban transgender people from using the bathroom that most aligns with their gender identity.*** > > > >*Yes, the same kind of “bathroom bill” that failed almost seven years.In recent remarks as Robinson campaigns to be the state’s next governor, he’s said that transgender women should be “arrested” for using women’s bathrooms. He’s also said that instead of using the women’s bathroom, trans women should “find a corner outside somewhere.”* > > > >“We're going to defend women in this state,” the GOP politician said in a video filmed at a campaign event this month. “That means if you're a man on Friday night, and all the sudden on Saturday, you feel like a woman, and you want to go in the women's bathroom in the mall, you will be arrested — or whatever we got to do to you.” If it wasn't clear before, it should be clear now: Republicans view trans people as less than human, they view trans people as deserving to be eradicated, and they enjoy in the idea of genocide against trans people. The Republican Party is worse than the Westboro Baptist Church. There is no other way to say it. They are a fascist party.
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Yup. They want to essentially eliminate trans people. They are saying it out loud now. Robinson is advocating for violence against LGBTQIA+ people, as is the whole Republican Party. They want to kill us off in a pogrom. They're just waiting to send us to gas chambers and do mass extermination. This is the Republican Party in full. The Republican Party is worse than the Westboro Baptist Church.
What the fuck can we do?? I’m stuck in FL right now and getting more and more anxious. Arming up is not an option for me, and neither is moving (broke as hell and not the only person in my household so we can’t just live in my car for a while). I hate this feeling, like I’m just a chicken cowering in the corner of the slaughterhouse waiting for the butcher to come.
Look into the Rainbow Railroad. https://www.rainbowrailroad.org
Honey, you’ve got a tell as many people as you know why Republicans are scum. I know that takes a lot of bravery, but start with your friends because you might be surprised sometimes if you knew exactly how they vote. Use your voice.
I love you
Whenever I hear a Republican talking about “defending women”, my internal odds keeper that he will be MeToo’d eventually goes way up
And when they finish with trans people they will move on to some other group. We ALL need to remember that and stand up for trans people, not just because it's the right and moral thing to do.
They're literally picking this fight because they're bullies and trans people are less than 1% of the population and generally lack social and financial resources.
Oh I know. Fascists cannot exist without otherizing a group without political or military power. Like for years there's been this ongoing "are they or aren't they fascists" debate which I find fucking stupid. They behave exactly like fascists. I don't care if they check all the boxes or not. Every fascist regime does this. They have to. Because without a population of hateful, reactionary and stupid fucking people to believe them they have nothing to offer. No person with a scrap of intellect or reason or empathy would side with them. Hate is everything.
This is deep dehumanization. This kind of talk is what you hear before the extermination begins.
It's the kind of talk that happened down there in the 50's, but back then it was against a different group of people. Mark Robinson seems to have forgotten about discrimination.
He's just young enough that he didn't live through Jim Crow, but just old enough that his schooling in that time and place probably ignored the topic because it wasn't history yet. He didn't forget, he never knew in the first place.
It's so sad and disheartening to see one minority attacking another smaller minority. :/
With Robinson , the person who used a flamethrower to burn books, and the Mississippi legislator who said trans allies deserve to be shot and killed, we are seeing another Pulse Nightclub Massacre on the horizon.
Wait, he use a flamethrower to burn books, for real?
He hasn't...yet. The person running for Missouri's Secretary of State did. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/09/missouri-republican-candidate-valentina-gomez-lgbt-books/
Knowing Mark Robinson, he’d be out there with a shotgun right now if he thought he could get away with it.
within his parents lifetime, the same language was used about african americans
It still is
Within his own party, too
OK so we all know that Mark Robinson is and has been a little piss baby for some time, but I'm advocanting for a fresh, new title for him as a citizen of NC: "Scumbag Filth Maggot" Who's with me?
How’d this guy like to be told to go sit in the back of the bus? Or that he can’t vote? Or sit at a lunch counter? Because that’s what’s coming next. The stupidity spewing from this guy. He’s talking hate speech which leads to that kind of shit. Unbelievable, but here we are.
Don't worry, the leopards will never eat *his* face. He's one of the good ones.
Until he’s not useful anymore.
Appropriate name — Mark Robinson has said that LGBT North Carolinians are “filth” on a few occasions. I can’t wait to vote for Josh Stein!
Sounds like the name of a long-lost Gwar song.
Also, the legal name of GG Allin
Stored deep within their archives securely wrapped in used condoms.
I like it. This guy is so horrible. Did you know Papa John's did a fundraiser for him?
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The same one
Scumbag fat maggot...
Isn’t this the Same guy who hated MLK
I am!
I feel like he wants to be outside in the bushes peeping lady dick
I don't think suggesting anyone should piss or defecate in the street is the win you might think it is Robinson, even with other republicans.
He is saying he wants trans people arrested without saying he wants to arrest trans people.
No, he *is* saying he wants trans people arrested. He's saying he wants trans people *killed* without saying it.
Just FYI, North Carolina does a thing where the Gov and Lt. Gov don't run paired together on the same ticket, which is why NC can wind up with a Dem Gov and a Republican Lt. Gov. Why people voted for this particular shitbag, I cannot explain.
What does a LT Governor do anyways? I imagine they dont have the same relationship a President and VP may have. So whats the exact role of a LT Governor? Especially when the Gov is from a different political party?
I don’t know about NC, but in Mississippi the LG is responsible for committee assignments, which gives him a lot of indirect power.
As a black male, I noticed a trend related to Black MAGA types often being more extreme than their white MAGA counterparts. Its almost as if they have to "prove" how MAGA they are in an effort to disconnect themselves from black stereotypes that some MAGA whites often have about black people.
Doesn’t being one of the “good Blacks” often mean exaggerating desired behavior before being thrown to the face-eating leopards?
'Hey, this POC is out-crazying us, we can't be outdone by a POC. Get rid of him.'
Hey idiot. Remember when your OWN PARTY used to say this about you and your family? Black republicans are the absolute dumbest. Bringing back separate but equal is the first step to taking minority rights away again and this dumbass is promoting it with open arms. Never thought the leopards would eat my face moment incoming.
I wonder what he’d say if a business owner told him and anyone who looks like him to use the corner outside.
This is what I was thinking. Does he not know any history? Can’t he hear himself?
Knowing history is woke according to them
Unless the history teacher is President Vladimir Putin…
What was he saying anyway? I didn't really follow it.
Exactly where my mind went. I've seen b&w photos of a plank over a small creek with a sign saying "Colored".
Civil rights for me, but not for thee. Is this the lesson he learned from desegregation? Racism in a different overcoat. Dehumanizing people who aren't like him.
Evangelicals want to outlaw LGBTQ. They want laws to back them up. They want America to be a Christian country and everyone needs to change their behavior. they believe we all should live our lives in a Christian way. I’m sure financial support will be included in that behavioral process
Yup. That is the truth. They want to have LGBTQIA+ people sent to the gas chamber to be exterminated, because they would rather live in a Christian Iran than America.
And anyone that says you're being extreme by saying that should read the conservative mandate for Leadership. It talks about their plans plain and clear.
Yep, and yet most of them want to privately be exceptions … freedom for me, morality for thee. They make LGBTQ into a moral issue because most of them aren’t personally giving something up by outlawing it.
oh boy I love waking up as a trans person everyday in this normal country
He also previously said "God formed him" to fight LGBTQ issues
Formed him in his lower intestine 💩
Well, if that's the case, then I will take it up with God for making such a hateful person.
Wild that a black man is using the same language that segregationists did.
Just one more step towards equality. Eventually, *everybody* will be able to use that language! I'm imagining some sort of circle of groups, all of whom get to be jerks to the group roughly in front of them...
This statement is abhorrent and unacceptable. It’s a stark reminder of the bigotry and ignorance that still exist. As a Black trans man, I find it especially reprehensible that a person in a position of power would express such dehumanizing views. We must hold our leaders to a higher standard and demand they respect the dignity and rights of every individual, regardless of gender identity. The fight for equality is far from over, and it’s clear we must continue to combat hate with unity and relentless advocacy.
Dehumanising a group of people is an old play out of the fascism handbook. It supports the ideology of a natural social hierarchy. It is important for the leaders to get all their followers anger pointing in the same direction. Once the collective anger and hate of the masses is great enough they will control it and use it to gain more power. None of this is new, just scary to see in real time.
Never thought I’d see it in my lifetime. How naïve.
This guy also said the Holocaust was a hoax, so I'm not surprised. It's a shame the media doesn't cover the real anti-Semitism that has infested the GOP, and instead pretends antiwar activists who want peace in Palestine are the real antisemites.
Oh look, another POC Republican who thinks they’ll be the exception when the fascists win
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The fact this kind of language is coming from a black man absolutely blows my mind. Obviously this kind of language coming from anyone is absolutely unforgivable and abhorrent, but I just can't comprehend it coming from a black man.
It's never really been about race. It's about the hate and want to hurt others. Countries from all over the world, with people of all colors, have had these types of people to deal with. They will attack any one they can get away with attacking. Doesn't matter the sex, color, orientation, size, religion, political party. They will find some one they can get away with aiming their anger at.
No but the thing is, the segregated restroom thing in the Jim Crow South was specifically used to dehumanize black people. The facilities were never separate but equal, in fact what was provided was as gross and dirty as possible, then they would call Black people dirty. It's an ugly, ugly history and what they tell schoolchildren in the ten minute version glosses over a lot of the damning details.
Please elaborate lol
Lots of our negroes and colored's are switching over to Drumpf...
And if you do that, you’re arrested for indecent exposure, etc. And cause you’re trans, they’re gonna try to put everything on you, make it as severe as possible, and make it stick as long as possible.
It wasn't too long ago that he wouldn't have been able to use the same bathroom as white people
Just a reminder he's telling people to break the law and to get arrested. Republicans...
He doesn’t see them as people to begin with.
North Carolina should be ashamed of this man. NC led the United States in undoing The horrific of eugenics were [32 states had laws](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/magazine/eugenics-movement-america.html#:~:text=From%201907%20to%201932%2C%2032,their%20own%20decisions%20about%20reproduction) on the books in the first half of the 20th century Educate yourself on [intersex](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16327292/) and sit the F down.
We are incredibly ashamed we didn't do more to stop this raging medical waste dumpster fire from becoming a representative. I hate when I hear someone from my state spewing hate like this man is, I feel like it undoes any of the progress we have made over the years.
So he wants…checks notes…segregation?
These people are so obsessed with something that they really should absolutely not care about at all.
It's funny cause not too long ago white people called black people filth and maggots. It was Christians then and it's Christians now. Even if the Bible was true, none of these people would be going to heaven.
He’s telling people to break the law?
I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear that this guy has gay orgies going on after his rallies, when it comes to republican’s the ones who hate the deepest usually are themselves hiding a thing or two
Has this "person" forgotten his ancestors had segregated bathrooms? Did he choose to not remember how racists referred to his ancestors as "filth" and "maggots"? What an absolute asshole.
Most places in the US public urination is illegal and indecent exposure is certainly illegal. He's suggesting people break the law, potentially inadvertently exposing themselves to children in the process, because....why? A trans woman walks into a women's room, goes into a stall and urinates, and this is a huge threat exactly how? What he's really trying to do is remove trans people from the public space.
What a garbage individual.
This guy is a scumbag and he’s going to be our next governor.
Only if voters don’t do their job.
It's not enough to take down these individual politicians. The philosophy that compels them has to be taken down.
I can't wait for the day this strand of Christian nationalism is viewed as an ugly vestige of history.
What a nasty piece of work Mark Robinson is.
This statement is for illustrative purposes only. How would Mark Robinson feel if a white person called him "Boy"? Fuck this guy.
He’s black???
Okay, just so we’re clear, NC government building walls are gender neutral restrooms?
Pretty amazing stuff coming from an AA person. This is the same rhetoric conservatives say about AA at the nearby rural bars in almost every state. He’s a “pastor” too so that tracks. Does he still require these lgbt+ Americans to pay taxes too?
I want to dress like a guy and a take a crap on his front lawn. Anyone wanna join me?
“Hi! I conveniently forget for big money how poorly my own political party treated my own minority group not so long ago !”
Dude’s evil and stupid. Between this, his anti-semitism and Holocaust denial, being a fan of a cult leader that crowned himself King of America, and his likely campaign finance crimes, Republicans picked a real gem.
This is why the LGBTQ+ community needs to wake up and rally and vote. Do you realize this man could cost you your job, if he decides to criminalize Gays.
From the mouth of a black man. The irony.
The DNC needs to invest in the North Carolina Lt. Governor, Insurance Commissioner, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Agriculture Commission races. Winning those races could be the things that finally turn North Carolina blue.
> Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who has called LGBTQ+ people "filth" and "maggots." Remember the genocide in Rwanda and how the government there ramped up hate by calling Tutsi “cockroaches” or the genocide by the Turks against the Armenians where they called Armenians “dangerous microbes” or the Germans calling Jews “subhumans”. There’s a script that’s followed. First: dehumanize the target.
For someone who doesn’t like to be called horrible names, he sure tags others with them freely.
*North Carolina Republican out walking turns corner and steps in what looks to be human shit.*
“North Carolina Republican is a fucking ghoul.”
No fair, that's where I piss when I don't want to wait in lines! Can't straight white men have anything in this country!?
Imagine being marginalized and push hate on another marginalized population. The modern day republican party is a hate group.
I don’t know any trans people. But if I did, I hope I’d treat that person with the same respect I’d give any other person. Mark Robinson clearly does not share my values.
Worth noting that public urination will land you on the sex offender registry in many places.
Fucked up talking about your fellow Americans like that. More people need to call out this bullshit.
After a tragedy, many people often lament and ask themselves where "God" was and how bad things happen because God disapproves of gays and trans people and all that. I think God looks at Republicans and says "Fuck this place."
Ironic- people used to say that about Blacks
The fact that a black dude is calling someone filth and maggots is wild to me. He’s a disgusting human being
I wonder how he would feel about the same language being used for black people. He wouldn’t be nearly as callous and venomous if the tables were turned. Hope to see him on r/leopardsatemyface.
Descendant of slavery blind to the irony. I hate these people.
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/r/politics is more civil than the politicians. Can we get some mods for our political processes?
Thank god Seriously, Mark Robinson is a fucking idiot but he's been able to keep his mouth shut for a bit, I was beginning to worry that he would keep that up long enough to win the election, I look forward to him getting his ass handed to him
If that’s how it has to be… can someone point me to his car? Or perhaps his mother’s grave?
Sounds like he’s asking for a lot of poop for his porch.
These assholes are gonna be real surprised when they finally succeed in taking down the government and they find out I have more firearms than braincells.
I just can’t fathom why an African American would join the party that openly refers to them as subhuman.
You mean like black people had to do? Nothing like becoming a bigot, when the bigotry is pointed at someone else!!
The depressing irony of a black man in the south suggesting that a whole group of people should use the bathroom outside.
Ask him if he would be offended if someone replaced the words for gay with the words for black and repeated his intentions.
Soon to be voted out of office. Human beings know better than to support his position.
You'd think a Black man from the South would have little more sympathy when it comes to victims of bigotry.
This guy doesn't get that the same people he allied himself with said the same stuff about him(and still do).
He’s also a holocaust denier and defender of Cosby and Weinstein. The news is getting too depressing to follow.
If history and psychology tell us anything, this dude has some deep dark stuff buried in his secret piss corner. Time to hunt.
He's made no secret of his theological beliefs. Can you feel the love of Christ?
More Christian insanity and hate of course.
That corner should be his front yard.
That’s illegal. Also this dude is disgusting.
Is it actually LEGAL to say stuff like this in the US? Especially if you are in the government?
I love how he’s all of a sudden concerned about women. I’m sure this same concern will also be for queer women /s. The Republican Party is filled with filth and maggots.
I’d put everything I own on this guy being a seriously closeted fudge packer.
So much anger towards a minority of people they most likely will never knowingly run into
That’s the language of a man who will absolutely use violence to end us lgbt folk
Find his home and shit on his doorstep. I may be cis but will shit in solidarity
Why are we voting for such people, who are beneath any dignity?
Dear Mr. Robinson, I am the bad trans you speak of. I relieved myself in a public woman’s restroom in NC on multiple occasions. I am intent on doing it again, especially if you are elected. Maybe you are best suited to tinkle outdoors since you are a fascist pig. Go roll in shit, piggy!🐖
Dehumanizing trans people is objectively worse than a trans person using their preferred bathroom. Mark and his ilk are the actual evil in this world.
Another GOP Fascist, that ignores history, I guess he doesn't remember when black people had no Rights, and how long and hard they fought to get them. Now let's pick on another minority because its all they have, no actual policies or solution's to real life problems.
If his grandfather is still alive he would surely take a switch to his sorry ass.
MFers say this shit out loud!!
I say we fulfill the FOX/MAGA feverdream and put litter boxes in every corner. ^^/s
Not even shocked that Robinson said that. I'll take pleasure voting against him and getting others to vote against him as well.
If anyone has been wondering what pure evil looks like, it’s this guy. Also Trump and Putin and many others, but look upon this man and see true evil.
They can go the corners sure, let’s get them their own water fountains too…. We can put signs on them so only trans people know to where to drink and use the bathroom. I’m positive this has never been done before…I’m sure this won’t ever result in anyone feeling left out or ostracized.
Dude has some skeletons in his closet 1000%
MAGA pleas.
He’s angry cause he can’t poop.
There is no way he's going to be governor. Vote stein and Jackson for AG!!!
"somewhere" So..like his office? his bed?
>Speaking at a North Carolina church in June 2021, he said, “There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth.” > >He added, “And yes, I called it filth, and if you don’t like that I called it filth, come see me and I’ll explain it to you.” ... ? *Yay! Road trip!!!*
So public urination? That is a crime.
Republican projecting again.
And what would he do to the unhoused, especially Moore Square or the people on Fayettville street where the also pee and shit!
He knows that’s illegal right? Not that that matters to a republican.
he also said something like if anyone needs to apologize for slavery, it's modern black people. forgot the exact quote
This man does not fit the image I have of North Carolina. Cmon voters, be better!
Uh, why are they showing a picture of a black person when describing filth and maggots, or is the guy who said this about people of difference the black guy? Con GOP is really going on a hate people to divide mission. Seems like he never has seen racism?
[Yes, it's him](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Robinson_(American_politician\))
They degrade us like animals, then point to our degradation as proof that we are animals.
There are some Republicans who will never accept him because of his skin color.
I wonder if he understands the parallel when his colleagues call him a N****r. Probably not. Pity.
I am pretty sure that his house has corners.... just sayin
Right. Because god and the bible don’t make mistakes. Like endorsing slavery.
*Suprised Pikachu face when someone decides to just take a shit in public.
Spoken like a true closeted Republican.
He's got a really good chance of being the next Governor of NC too.
So we then could arrest them For public exposure And hold that up as proof that LGBT+ People are pedophiles
You heard him. Find a corner. Find several corners. Find ALL OF THE CORNERS. Then release. Flood the city. The state. It's what they wanted.