In unearthed Facebook posts, Mark Robinson also called the civil rights movement “crap” and vowed to work on MLK Day because he’s “not a leach."

Martin Luther King Jr. was just an “ersatz pastor” and a “communist,” and the 1960s civil rights movement was “crap,” according to a series of Facebook posts by Mark Robinson, the leading Republican candidate to be North Carolina’s next governor.

Robinson, who is currently the state’s lieutenant governor, regularly criticized King and the civil rights movement for years on Facebook ― specifically on MLK Day ― HuffPost found amid a review of his posts. The Black politician also downplayed slavery, rejected the idea that he’s part of the African American community, and attacked the late congressman and civil rights icon, John Lewis.

These posts are surfacing at a time when Robinson, who is on track to be the GOP nominee for governor in November, has been trying to soften his rhetoric, and celebrate King and the civil rights movement.

    • @negativeyoda
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      610 months ago

      Ahh, the George Lucas

      I think he chose a goatee to highlight the pursed lower lip indicating simmering hatred that all reactionaries tend to nurture

      • @[email protected]
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        -510 months ago

        i feel like the term “reactionary” has been so misused that it no longer has any meaning other than “someone a particular leftist doesn’t like”

        • @negativeyoda
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          010 months ago

          reactionary adjective (of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform

          Checks both boxes. What does your malformed anterior insular cortex think it means?

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante—the previous political state of society—which the person believes was better in some ways that are absent from contemporary society.

            mouth breather

            • @negativeyoda
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              010 months ago

              On a scale from 14 to 88, how scared are you of having brown grandkids?

              What is this great age you want to return to? Owning people? McCarthyism? Jim Crow? Satanic Panic?

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                110 months ago

                i replied to your question about the definition of reactionary, with the definition of reactionary…

                are you dense or trolling or…

                ah, took me a second, “scale from 14 to 88”…
                so you’re a neo-nazi…
                got it

                • @negativeyoda
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                  110 months ago

                  Yes. Lots of racist talking points in my post history. A+ sleuthing

                  What is this great bygone age you wish to return to? This shift reactionary utopia? You’re not answering my question

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      210 months ago

      It’s certainly highlighting the formation of a second chin.

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        110 months ago

        the line between chin and neck is indeterminate…
        i feel like there’s a mathematical paradox here…

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          110 months ago

          The line between the two chins is delineated by the bottom of the goatee.

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            that’s arbitrary, he could make the goatee any size he wanted, and that would be his new chin…
            all points of skin below his lip to his upper chest are equidistant…