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The Republican candidate also attacked Martin Luther King Jr., calling the civil rights icon “worse than a maggot.”

Mark Robinson, who was endorsed in March by Donald Trump in the race for governor of North Carolina, said he supported slavery, called himself a “black NAZI,” and graphically described “peeping” on women in public gym showers on a porn forum called “Nude Africa,” CNN KFile reported Thursday.

The comments were reportedly made “under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.” CNN said it determined the username belonged to the gubernatorial candidate “by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two.”


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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Imagine being this fucking weird

[-] samokosik@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

That’s literally anti-black black guy lol

[-] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago

A couple years ago this would have been a strange headline, today not so much.

Things you will rarely read about democrats: "said batshit insane stuff on some hentai forum"

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Things you will rarely read about democrats: “said batshit insane stuff on some hentai forum”

Either because a) they didn't do it, or b) were smart enough to not have the comments be tracked back to them personally

[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 37 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

This is Martin Luther King on steroids...I told that to Mark. I said, I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two

  • Donald Trump on Mark Robinson

And to be fair to Trump, it seems like Robinson is comparable to MLK in the sense both of them would be deeply offended by the comparison.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 13 hours ago

Amazing comment...

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 26 points 21 hours ago

In case anybody's wondering, Fox News currently has this story 27th out of their normally formatted links on their home page, with the headline "GOP gubernatorial candidate vehemently denies graphic allegations, won't exit race".

You'll need to scroll past gems like:

  • CNN reporter lectures boat-owning Trump supporter on economy — but he isn't having it
  • NFL Hall of Fame coach [openly homophobic Tony Dungy] posts fiery response to VP Harris' tweet about abortion
  • Martha Stewart, Ina Garten dish on how decades-long friendship came to an end
[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 108 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Presented with the details re: how CNN determined the comments came from him, Robinson responded: “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.”

Sure, buddy. Somebody in 2008 spent 4 years writing posts on an obscure web forum using an account registered to your email address, just so they could have a "gotcha!" moment when you decided to run for governor over a decade later.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago

I can definitely see the resemblance.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

May White God Bless America. 🫡

[-] draughtcyclist@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Came here for Uncle Ruckus, was not disappointed.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

This feels a little too perfect and on the nose to me. It's possible that this was someone who did a whole lot of research on him and then hacked this website to inject historic posts. I'm a little worried that this will blow up in our faces.

Please didn't see this as some kind of defense of this man. He's an evil ass that needs to go away. I felt icky even typing that first paragraph, but this train has a lot of steam, and I'm worried about the tracks. I actually waited and debated a long time before posting this, cause I knew it wasn't going to be taken well by the community.

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 13 points 13 hours ago

“Inject historic posts”

lol. This would be easily disproven and would be a criminal act. Republicans often make these kinds of ludicrous conspiracy claims and it always ends up being projection.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 10 points 14 hours ago

This is what they are referencing: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html

Judging by what they are saying, CNN KFile investigation bases their investigation mostly on "Robinson used ‘minisoldr’ all over the internet". They also claimed to have linked his email, which is slightly sus given that I doubt porn websites are into the habit of making them public. I tried to go over to the one they mentioned and no, it does not scream security, there are BBS better looking than that website, at least their login.

What seems to have motivated the investigation is that:

CNN’s reporting on Robinson’s comments comes a few weeks after The Assembly, a North Carolina digital publication, reported that Robinson frequented local video pornography shops in the 1990s and 2000s. The story cited six people who interacted and saw him frequent the stores in Greensboro, North Carolina. A spokesperson for Robinson called the story false and a “complete fiction.”

So I wouldn't be surprised if it's true, and I doubt CNN wouldn't be making those claims if they could be easily disprove as outright lies.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Judging by what they are saying, CNN KFile investigation bases their investigation mostly on “Robinson used ‘minisoldr’ all over the internet”.

Right, That's what I meant by "Well researched". Someone looking to build this story could have gathered a whole bunch of his common sayings, his user name from other sites, historic information, etc, and using something like SQL injection, added posts that authentically look like they came from years ago. All the evidence they listed really could be handled that way.

Again, I hate this man. He is scum. But there is a slight fishy smell about this story that just makes me a little wary.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Can you do an SQL injection into the Internet Archive? Otherwise, I'm guessing Robinson's campaign could easily prove such a thing.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Most likely not. Are there historic matching posts in the archive? If so, that would pretty much completely allay my lingering suspicion.

Also, his campaign doesn't exactly seem to be the most tech savvy. They tried to blame this on AI Generated images, which doesn't even make sense as a possible attack vector for faking this kind of evidence. I doubt they even know about or understand internet archival sites.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I think there are likely a nonzero number of archived websites that Robinson's campaign could easily point to if they were able.

This is a guy who has said all kinds of horrific shit before. He didn't even deny making antisemitic claims on Facebook (he said they were misunderstood, but he didn't deny making them).

https://www.wral.com/story/nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson-downplays-past-remarks-about-jews-declares-israel-solidarity-week/21093457/

There is also a man who worked at a porn store who talked about Robinson as a regular customer and joke around with them. He would even bring in pizza.

https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/nc-election-governor-republican-mark-robinson-porn-allegations/

The most obvious explanation here is that a horrible guy is horrible and really into porn.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago

Or, in other words, a typical Republican.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 day ago

Well, I don't think your typical republican calls themself a Black Nazi.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Dean Browning might.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Not out loud in public

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

They’re better at not getting caught, anyway

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 56 points 1 day ago

Democrat candidate: supports unions. feeds school kids. Wants to restore women's rights.

Republican candidate: endorsed slavery, and described spying on women in public showers in porn forum

[-] nulluser@programming.dev 61 points 1 day ago
[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 14 hours ago

"I literally can't tell these two apart"

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

Yeah, even with single issue voters I don't see how...he seems like he's an internet creation of the worst possible candidate to run, with replies of "that's a bit too far, no one would believe that."

[-] scops@reddthat.com 19 points 1 day ago

Not to mention the Republican candidate called trans people filth, demonized abortion after his wife had one, and was known to spend multiple nights per week at the local adult arcade

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

You got to have a unique pornhub username that's not the same as other accounts! I wouldn't vote for this guy based on that alone.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago

He has publicly denied the Holocaust and has made many antisemitic remarks. Is anyone surprised that he considers himself a black Nazi?

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 18 points 1 day ago

He sounds very Trump-like to me!

Made in his own image...

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 1 day ago

He sounds like the kind of Black person white supremacists like: one not only venal enough to carry their flag and accept their instrumental praise, but to demonstrate the sort of stupidity and savagery that reinforces their view of their racial superiority.

[-] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I love that he's going with the Shaggy defense. CNN had more receipts than an accountant in April

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

No wonder Trump endorsed him

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Yeah but other than those things he's probably an ok guy 🙄?

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