{"id":120227,"date":"2023-10-25T17:03:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120227"},"modified":"2023-10-25T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:03:49","slug":"north-carolina-lt-governor-quoted-hitler-in-newly-unearthed-social-media-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120227","title":{"rendered":"“North Carolina lt. governor quoted Hitler in newly unearthed social media posts”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

JewishInsider<\/a>: “Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina and a leading Republican candidate for governor, found his efforts to declare solidarity with Israel backfiring \u2014 by drawing renewed scrutiny to his long\u00a0history<\/a>\u00a0of invoking antisemitic conspiracy theories and casting doubt on the Holocaust….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a series of previously unreported Facebook posts, which remain publicly available, Robinson shared a quotation<\/a> attributed to Adolf Hitler, compared<\/a> the toppling of a Confederate statue to Kristallnacht<\/em> and frequently<\/a> minimized<\/a> the legacy of the Holocaust while decrying<\/a> the threat of communism, among other inflammatory remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly unearthed comments could add to mounting concerns<\/a> among GOP activists in North Carolina who are worried that Robinson\u2019s past offensive statements<\/a> will hurt his chances<\/a> to win the general election in a key battleground state next year \u2014 especially at a time when rising antisemitism is receiving closer attention after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent months, Robinson has faced bipartisan backlash<\/a> over past statements that promoted anti-Jewish tropes, flirted with Holocaust denial and belittled Muslims, women<\/a> and transgender people, among other minority groups. Former Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC), a Republican who is also running for governor, has called<\/a> Robinson\u2019s remarks \u201ctroubling\u201d and \u201c100% antisemitic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lieutenant governor, whom polls show as the front-runner, is now facing five\u00a0Republican primary challengers<\/a>, including Bill Graham, a wealthy trial lawyer who\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0his campaign last week, vowing to spend millions of his own money. The winner is expected to face off against a Jewish Democrat, Josh Stein, who is the state\u2019s attorney general. Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is term-limited.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JewishInsider: “Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina and a leading Republican candidate for governor, found his efforts to declare solidarity with Israel backfiring \u2014 by drawing renewed scrutiny to his long\u00a0history\u00a0of invoking antisemitic conspiracy theories and casting doubt on the Holocaust…. In a series of previously unreported Facebook posts, which remain publicly available,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120228,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120227\/revisions\/120228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}