While speaking at a parental rights summit, North Carolina Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial hopeful Mark Robinson suggested that school instruction about former communist and socialist leaders might draw young people’s interest away from those political ideologies.
Robinson made an appearance at the Moms for Liberty “Blessings of the Liberty Breakfast” in Philadelphia over the weekend.
The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Moms for Liberty as a far-right organization that self-identifies as a modern parental rights movement. The group vehemently opposes LGBTQ+ school instruction and racially inclusive school curricula and routinely advocates book bans. They also challenged public health regulations enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The weekend-long event also hosted other speakers like Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, and Asa Hutchinson, all of whom are 2024 Republican presidential candidates.
An earlier clip of his speech went viral without part of Robinson’s remarks where he denounced the dictators he named and ushered in a wave of backlash in which people thought he was backing the views and actions of these leaders and war criminals.
“Whether you’re talking about Adolf Hitler; whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao; whether you’re talking about Stalin; whether you’re talking about Pol Pot; whether you’re talking about Castro in Cuba; or whether you’re talking about a dozen other despots all around the globe; it is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes,” Robinson said during the event.
“It’s time for us to start teaching our children about the dirty, despicable, awful things that those communist and socialist despots did in our history.”
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