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George Chidi

Republican Mark Robinson suggested ‘deadbeat’ parents should be sterilized in racist social media posts

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Mark Robinson in Asheville, North Carolina, on 14 August 2024. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate, suggested that people who can’t take care of their children should be sterilized, according to one of a series of incendiary and racist social media posts from 2014 through 2019.

The commentary made in reference to Black families, which used terms a white supremacist would find appropriate, predates his time as the state’s lieutenant governor, but much of it came after his rise as a public figure on the right. Most of the social media posts have not previously been reported.

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