Mark Keith Robinson

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transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Zachary Petrizzo @ The Daily Beast</a>: Right-Wingers Turn on Elon Musk Over New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino.</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/rfk-jr-not-participating-far-right-event-listed-speaker-aide-says-rcna84156" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Alex Seitz-Wald @ NBC News</a>: RFK Jr. not participating in far-right event after being listed as a speaker, aide says.</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.joemygod.com/2023/05/donohue-lgbtq-families-cant-celebrate-mothers-day/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Jervis</a>: Donohue: LGBTQ Families Can’t Celebrate Mother’s Day</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/11/texas-sodomy-ban-repeal-bill/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Alex Nguyen and William Melhado @ The Texas Tribune</a>: Bill striking unconstitutional state law that criminalized homosexuality fails to meet critical deadline in the Texas House.</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-massive-texas-county-turned-blue-then-the-gop-controlled-senate-voted-to-overturn-their-elections" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Kaila Philo @ Talking Points Memo</a>: A Massive Texas County Turned Blue. Then The GOP-Controlled Senate Voted To Overturn Their Elections.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/crime-and-criminal-justice/north-carolina-lt-gov-mark-robinson-said-mass-shootings-are-karma" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Eric Hananoki and Payton Armstrong @ Media Matters</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said mass shootings are “karma” for allowing abortion.</span></font></li></ul></div></div><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags:</span> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/bill-donohue/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Bill Donohue</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/elon-musk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Elon Musk</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/mark-robinson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Robinson</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/round-up/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Round-Up</a></font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">an 11 22</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Arizona Republican Party’s nominee for governor, <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Kari+Lake" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Kari Lake</strong></a>, is telling supporters there’s no reason for schools to spend so much time teaching science, math, and history. If elected she would recreate public schools into factories producing young adults who can immediately enter the workforce without the benefit of understanding basic information necessary in a democratic society.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> In North Carolina, the dominionist Lt. Governor wants to ban the teaching of science and history in elementary schools. And a <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Fox+News" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Fox News</strong></a> host this week claimed that social studies – classes that teach history, culture, geography, political science, philosophy, and psychology – is a <b>fake subject</b>, “made up by progressives.”</span></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That Fox News host is <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Pete+Hegseth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Pete Hegseth</strong></a>, who Donald Trump, when he was president, wanted to nominate to head the Veterans Administration. Hegseth may be best-known, however, for once bragging on Fox News that <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/02/never-ever-shake-his-hand-twitter-users-pile-on-fox-news-hosts-claim-germs-are-not-a-real-thing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">he hadn’t washed his hands in over a decade</a>.</font></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Germs are not a real thing,” Hegseth...RELATED: https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/this-is-who-they-are-critics-blast-kari-lake-for-mocking-paul-pelosi-after-brutally-violent-assault/...‘This Is Who They Are’: Critics Blast Kari Lake for Mocking Paul Pelosi After Brutally Violent Assault</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Everything about the confines of my classroom was created by progressives 100 years ago,” Hegseth told a live audience this week. “You mentioned the rows. You mentioned that approach – the bell ringing.<b> God being removed of course, l</b>unch breaks, lunch breaks, different subjects, Social Studies.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s when Hegseth got agitated.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The idea we’re not going to study civics, history, philosophy, theology, we’re going to create psychology and social studies and split it all up as if we can dissect human nature and through a<b> scientific method which they’ve invented.”.</b></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“That’s right, create more perfectible human beings by controlling how they think and what they think, all created by progressives.”</font></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hegseth thinks taxpayer-funded public schools should teach everything through the “lens” of God, or, more specifically, his God...“Did you take social studies? I took social studies. The progressives made it up it – it’s, it’s a made-up conglomerate of subjects meant to silo the way that we think as opposed to basing all of wisdom in God’s wisdom, in His word, and it all makes sense, looking at it through that lens....[twt]

...social Studies, of course, includes civics and history, and philosophy. In fact, the <a href="https://www.socialstudies.org/about" national="National" council="Council" for="for" the="the" social="Social" studies="Studies"> offers a definition for social studies:</a></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[READ MORE: <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/watch-kari-lake-ad-features-pastor-who-frames-lgbtq-people-as-sex-obsessed-violent-criminals...Watch: Kari Lake Ad Features Pastor Who Frames LGBTQ People as Sex-Obsessed Violent Criminals" /></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/watch-kari-lake-ad-features-pastor-who-frames-lgbtq-people-as-sex-obsessed-violent-criminals...Watch: Kari Lake Ad Features Pastor Who Frames LGBTQ People as Sex-Obsessed Violent Criminals"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Social studies is the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to<b> promote civic competence,</b>” which Hegseth appears to object to.</font></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/watch-kari-lake-ad-features-pastor-who-frames-lgbtq-people-as-sex-obsessed-violent-criminals...Watch: Kari Lake Ad Features Pastor Who Frames LGBTQ People as Sex-Obsessed Violent Criminals"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Within the school program, social studies provides coordinated, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">systematic study</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> drawing upon such disciplines as anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology, as well as appropriate content from the humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences.”</span></font></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/watch-kari-lake-ad-features-pastor-who-frames-lgbtq-people-as-sex-obsessed-violent-criminals...Watch: Kari Lake Ad Features Pastor Who Frames LGBTQ People as Sex-Obsessed Violent Criminals"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">reasoned decisions for the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> public good</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>”</b></span></font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/watch-kari-lake-ad-features-pastor-who-frames-lgbtq-people-as-sex-obsessed-violent-criminals...Watch: Kari Lake Ad Features Pastor Who Frames LGBTQ People as Sex-Obsessed Violent Criminals"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hegseth is not alone in wanting to reduce what children learn.</font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/watch-kari-lake-ad-features-pastor-who-frames-lgbtq-people-as-sex-obsessed-violent-criminals...Watch: Kari Lake Ad Features Pastor Who Frames LGBTQ People as Sex-Obsessed Violent Criminals"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican Kari Lake, Arizona’s GOP nominee for governor and a former TV news reporter whose entire education was in public schools, now thinks school children don’t need to learn as much as they are currently when it comes to science, math, and history.</font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/watch-kari-lake-ad-features-pastor-who-frames-lgbtq-people-as-sex-obsessed-violent-criminals...Watch: Kari Lake Ad Features Pastor Who Frames LGBTQ People as Sex-Obsessed Violent Criminals"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[READ MORE: </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/11/we-the-people-not-enemies-president-biden-urges-americans-to-preserve-democracy-in-address-to-nation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">‘We the People – Not Enemies’: President Biden Urges Americans to ‘Preserve Democracy’ in Address to Nation</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I believe we are at a prime opportunity to completely re-envision how our government schools are run, because everyone’s eyes are open,” Lake told supporters at an event while <b>campaigning with far-right white Christian nationalist U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ).</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“And who says we have to have this many hours of science, this many of math and history? We can change that up,” said Lake about an entire state’s public school system that already has been “ranked worst across the 50 United States of America,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” according to a report in Arizona’s <a href="https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arizona-public-school-system-ranked-worst-in-america-study-says" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">KGUN 9 News</a>.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What does it mean to have a high school diploma? It should mean that you know some of the basics, and you also have some ability to go out and make a living. Our schools have our kids for 13 years from K through 12 and at the end of 13 years, we should have some competent adults going into the world who can make a living because there are jobs out there.”</font></p><div id="25561" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b4388718332390f3753c2637a3b36107" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rm-embed-container rm-embed-twitter rm-loaded rm-off" style="position: relative; max-width: 550px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="rm-embed-holder" style="height: 100%; width: 100%; display: contents; align-items: start; position: relative; top: 0px; left: 0px;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 550px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[twt vid patriot takes]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">notice how Lake doesn’t say, “public schools,” but<b> “government schools</b>,” a term many on the right use to demonize public schools, expanding their belief that anything the government does is wrong, bad, or a waste of tax dollars.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lake also sounds like she’s suggesting high school graduates are not able to get jobs because they have spent too much time learning about science, math, and history.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then there’s far right </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Christian dominionist Republican Lt. Governor of North Carolina <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Mark+Robinson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Mark Robinson</strong></a>, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who is another extremist attacking education.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robinson made national headlines after calling LGBTQ people “filth.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/mark-robinson-north-carolina-science-history-ban-rcna44386" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">MSNBC’s Ja’han Jones wrote</a> that Robinson “may well be the most bigoted official in the United States with the least name recognition.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Calling him “a full-on extremist,” Jones writes that Robinson And “reportedly has a new, ludicrous belief to share with the masses: Science and history shouldn’t be taught to students until they reach sixth grade.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“First through fifth grades ‘don’t need to be teaching social studies,’ he wrote, according to local NBC affiliate WRAL-TV, which obtained an advanced copy of his upcoming book,” Jones adds, reporting that Robinson wrote: “We don’t need to be teaching science. We surely don’t need to be talking about equity and social justice.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There’s more to Robinson’s extremist ideas on education.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Get rid of it. Or, specifically, Jones writes, <b>Robinson has ” called for the elimination of the state’s board of education.”</b></font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Robinson said flatly what most fact-averse conservatives won’t admit about their education crusade,” Jones continues. “They fear accurate history lessons that could inevitably lead to discussions about</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> systemic disparities</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. And they fear discussions about science, which may undermine the fundamentalist Christian beliefs at the heart of the conservative movement.”</span></font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones sums up this entire approach to public education from the right.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Robinson’s reported ideas about education showcase the logical endpoint of the Republican Party’s assault on lessons about social inequality: an eagerness to keep children stupid.”</font></b></p></div><div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">badash tag</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RIGHT WING EXTREMISM11 months agoWatch: Bigoted NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Berates Democratic Lawmaker for Denouncing His Anti-LGBTQ Hate SpeechNorth Carolina’s Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson lashed out at a Democratic state lawmaker after she delivered a speech urging elected leaders to try to understand...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RIGHT WING EXTREMISM1 year agoNC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Says Transgender People and Drag Queens Are ‘Pure Lunacy’ and Want to Molest KidsNorth Carolina’s Christian nationalist Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson remains defiant amid the controversy that erupted when Right Wing Watch posted a clip of him ranting...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM1 year ago‘Teaching Them How to Go to Hell’: NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Calls Transgender Rights Movement ‘Demonic’North Carolina’s Christian nationalist Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is under fire after Right Wing Watch posted a clip of him speaking Asbury Baptist Church in...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RIGHT WING EXTREMISM1 year agoNewsmax White House Reporter Busted for False Claim Vaccines Contain Satan-Linked ‘Bioluminescent Markers’ to ‘Track’ YouEmerald Robinson, the White House correspondent for far right wing media operation Newsmax was inundated with fact checks and mockery Monday night after she posted a totally...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">LITERALLY CALLING IT 'COMMUNISM'2 years ago‘Biden’s Mark of the Beast’: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan Lead Extremists Revolting Against Vaccine PassportsBeing Called ‘Modern Day Nazi Germany’ In response to news the Biden administration is in support of “vaccine passports,” digital ID’s that would allow businesses, for...7 years ago‘I’m Not A Bigot’ Says Man On Trial For Horrific 2013 Hate Crime Murder Of NYC Gay Man Mark CarsonElliot Morales, who reportedly laughed as he told police, "I shot him in the face," is charged with a hate crime murder and is defending himself.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">COMMENTARY1 hour agoWatch: Extremist Republicans Openly Attack Public Schools Teaching Science, Math, History and Social Studies to KidsThe Arizona Republican Party’s nominee for governor, Kari Lake, is telling supporters there’s no reason for schools to spend so much time teaching science, math, and history....</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RIGHT WING EXTREMISM7 months ago‘Lie From Hell’: Franklin Graham Spends Weekend Promoting Anti-LGBTQ Extremism – and Calls for ‘Regime Change’ in USRight-wing evangelical Franklin Graham spent the weekend promoting anti-LGBTQ extremist hate to his nearly 10 million Facebook followers, including by attacking The Walt Disney Company, criticizing...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RIGHT WING EXTREMISM8 months agoWatch: Fox News Makes Vile Claim About Liberals, Young Children, and Sexual ‘Grooming’Fox News propagandist Laura Ingraham has been called a “monster” by her own brother, who is gay. “Our father was a Nazi sympathizer, racist, anti-Semite and...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM12 months agoWatch: NC Lt. Gov. Declares Straight Relationships ‘Superior’ to Gay Ones – Says Even Cow Manure Is BetterNorth Carolina’s far right Christian nationalist Lt. Governor, Republican Mark Robinson, set his sights on LGBTQ people once again, attacking same-sex relationships as inferior to heterosexual...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RIGHT WING EXTREMISM12 months ago‘Would You Like to See Some of My Ammo?’: NC Lt. Gov. ‘Jokingly’ Threatens IRS’s ‘Revenuer Man’North Carolina extremist Christian nationalist Lt. Governor, Republican Mark Robinson on Saturday appeared to “jokingly” threaten any IRS agents who might come to his home as he...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM1 year ago‘Christian Patriots’ Will ‘Own’ and ‘Rule’ America Declares NC GOP Lt. GovernorNorth Carolina’s Christian nationalist Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who recently announced that he’s “about 95 percent sure” that he will be running for governor in...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM1 year agoChristian Nationalist Lt. Gov. Thinks First Amendment Protects Him From Being Criticized for His Anti-LGBTQ ViewsNorth Carolina Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson is furious that people are criticizing him over his virulently anti-LGBTQ views, and thinks the First Amendment is supposed...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM1 year agoFranklin Graham Rushes to Defend Lt. Governor Who Calls LGBTQ People ‘Filth’Evangelical former Trump advisor Franklin Graham is defending Lt. Governor Mark Robinson after calls for the North Carolina Republican to resign for calling LGBTQ people “filth.” Graham,...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RIGHT WING EXTREMISM1 year ago‘Perverted Agendas’: NC Lt. Gov. Says School Boards Are Shoving ‘Homosexuality Garbage’ Down Kids’ ThroatsNorth Carolina Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, currently under fire for calling LGBTQ people “filth,” made similar remarks about LGBTQ people just days ago. Robinson’s “filth” remarks...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">HATE IS HATE1 year agoNC Lt. Governor Accused of ‘Open Discrimination’ After Calling LGBTQ People ‘Filth’ and Demanding Christians Take ControlCalls are growing for North Carolina Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson to resign after video of remarks he made in June, calling LGBTQ people “filth,” went...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM1 year agoNorth Carolina Lt. Gov. Proclaims America Is ‘A Christian Nation,’ Says School Shootings Will Stop When Kids Learn About JesusNorth Carolina’s Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson was among members of Congress, state legislators, various candidates for office, and</div></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/homophobia-misogyny-and-islamophobia-rights-new-darling-mark-keith-robinson-has-it-all?" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/homophobia-misogyny-and-islamophobia-rights-new-darling-mark-keith-robinson-has-it-all</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This  Saturday, pro-gun control MAGA hordes will gather at the Orange County Second Amendment (OC2A) rally in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Among the speakers will be the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">newest darling of the right—recently granted fawning coverage by outlets such as Breitbart, Twitchy, Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze—Mark Keith Robinson.</span> The <a href="https://shareblue.com/foxs-favorite-new-pro-gun-pundit-birther-hates-gay-people/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">right’s latest attack dog</a> epitomizes the current Republican brand, as a “birther pundit who says gay people are ‘devil-worshipping child molesters,’ black Democrats are ‘slaves,’ the student survivors of the Parkland shooting are ‘silly little immature media prosti-tots,’ and Michelle Obama is a man.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As <a href="https://shareblue.com/foxs-favorite-new-pro-gun-pundit-birther-hates-gay-people/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Shareblue Media notes</a>, Robinson became a favorite among alt-right and right-wing media back in April after delivering a pro-gun speech at a town council meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. But <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3?hc_ref=ARTVHkt_yrk84X6HBrGUNgHx34xGwTxmuDS2kSg7nRNYNoSrlcZ1E41QE89ScDkkwsw&fref=nf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">he’s also incredibly vocal on social media</a>. In a Facebook post dated February 7, Robinson wrote that homosexuality has been “pushed...over the top” and hysterically concludes “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3/posts/10156183685352360" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">PEDOPHILLA is next</a>, which will be closely followed by the END of civilization as we know it.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is nothing more beloved by the GOP than a token visible minority who’s eager to promote the party’s racist views. Robinson, who is African-American, frequently promotes the ahistorical GOP view that the party <a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20161413&&from=f" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">remains that of Abraham Lincoln</a>, and tacitly accuses black people of being too stupid to understand their own political interests. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Half of black Democrats <b>don't realize they are slaves</b> and don't know who their masters are,” Robinson posted on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3/posts/10156184718407360" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Facebook in February</a>, employing a <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harriet-tubman-quote/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">corruption of a totally fake Harriet Tubman quote</a>. “The other half don't care.”</span> (“Nor do all of them vote. Yet always the first to complain,” wrote a fan of Robinson’s in the comments.)  In March, Robinson posted a meme that declares President Barack Obama “entered the White House <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156260037712360&set=a.10150214144712360.337483.804552359&type=3&theater" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">with a fake birth certificate</a>.” And in yet another example of his misunderstanding of how slavery worked, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Robinson recently compared Senator Maxine Waters, an African-American woman, to 19th-century “PRO SLAVERY Democrat Preston Brooks,” and labeled her an “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156572002487360&set=a.10150214144712360.337483.804552359&type=3&theater" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">OVERSEER</a>.</span>” Following his lead, fans of Robinson filled the comments with overtly racist and misogynoir responses, including memes that paint Sen. Waters as a “crack addict” and imagine her speaking in clumsy, misspelled, inarticulate phrases.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just this Friday, Robinson took to Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156633096532360&set=a.10150214144712360.337483.804552359&type=3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">to call Hillary Clinton a “witch</a>,” a word he apparently thinks works for pretty much any woman he doesn’t like, considering he used the same term in 2016 to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3/posts/10154728674077360" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">describe Beyonce</a>. Shareblue points out that<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Robinson “<a href="https://shareblue.com/foxs-favorite-new-pro-gun-pundit-birther-hates-gay-people/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">uses the male pronoun to refer to Michelle Obama</a>, echoing a conservative theory that she is male.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robinson has also disparaged Muslims via his social media. In <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HPTAction/photos/pcb.2109061692701568/2109051359369268/?type=3&theater" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">one deleted post (saved in this screenshot), he declared</a>, “The question is not ‘When is the last time you saw anyone but a Muslim holding a severed head and smiling’....The question is, when is the last time you saw a Muslim protesting against a Muslim who severed a head, or bombed a shopping mall, or ran down a group of humans with a truck, or shot up a nightclub, or burned someone alive.....”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite—or rather, because of—Robinson’s remarks, he’s become a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imthemajorityusa/posts/232757730853325/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">highly sought-after speaker on the right</a>. There are appearances this summer in Broward County, Florida; Tallahassee, Florida; and <b>Milwaukee, Wisconsin,</b> among many others. This month,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Robinson <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156577134682360&set=a.10150214144712360.337483.804552359&type=3&theater" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">shares a bill</a> with Candace Owens, the black conservative provocateur who wrote that Trump “<a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/986066422399774720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E986066422399774720&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.essence.com%2Fnews%2Fcandace-owens-kanye-west-conservative" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">isn’t just the leader of the free world</a>, but the savior of it as well.” During his April appearance on Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhardt gushed, “You’re great; I really think you should run for office.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As previously mentioned, Robinson’s latest stop will be a speaking gig at the Orange County Second Amendment (OC2A) rally in Hillsborough, North Carolina, this Saturday. In a press statement, Hillsborough Progressives Taking Action (HPTA) notes that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">he’ll be joined by “speakers from Grass Roots NC, whose PAC ‘recommends’ white supremacist and anti-Semitic House candidate Russell Walker.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>