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Ex-Porn Shop Staff Say Mark Robinson [Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina] Was A Regular. He Denies It. (www.theassemblync.com)

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[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago

Robinson is a far right, born again Christian culture warrior. This is newsworthy because it’s extremely hypocritical of him.

But Robinson has used the word “pornography” to describe everything from music and network television to LGBTQ-themed children’s books. During this year’s N.C. Republican Party Convention, for example, Robinson called public school teachers and administrators “all-powerful bureaucrats … who believe it’s OK to feed your children a steady diet of communism and pornography.”

Not that hypocrisy is new to Robinson. He also said

”Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers. It’s about killing the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down,”

after having paid for his wife’s abortion.

He has said that trans women should be

“arrested” if they go in a women’s bathroom. Instead, he suggests they should “find a corner outside somewhere” to relieve themselves.

He has also said that “some people just need killing” in a speech where he railed against a variety of evil people including rapists, liberals, socialists and communists.

He is thoroughly a piece of shit, and unfortunately there’s a chance he’ll be the governor of North Carolina. With an extremely Republican state legislature (currently a supermajority), he would be able to make life miserable for a lot of people.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

He has said that trans women should be

“arrested” if they go in a women’s bathroom. Instead, he suggests they should “find a corner outside somewhere” to relieve themselves.

What are the odds he's also against "public indecency acts" like peeing in public and would gladly have them strung up for what they're doing to children's poor innocent widdle eyes?

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Still, people shouldn't be downvoting sinkingship for the first thing that should come to mind. Because generally, who cares?

The hypocrisy and context needs to be here for this to be a story.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For anyone familiar with US politics, him being a hypocritical weirdo pervert is the first thing most of us think of.

For people like sinkingship this is strange and baffling. For the rest of us, it's Wednesday.

Also, the context is in the subhead and the beginning of the article...

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