Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.
Nobody should care if he has an open relationship.
And yet here we are. I understand the stigma with Ashley Madison. If it were tinder, Grindr, or any other hookup site that is not a “cheating” site would that be ok?
I don’t think people would care about any of this nearly as much if he didn’t represent a party that claims all of these things are ‘ungodly’, and the same party that negatively attributes this kind of behavior to the LGBTQ community, while actively trying to erase their existence. I think it’s important that people call out the hypocrisy.
I don’t think the app that he used really matters as far as the criticism goes, though if it was Grindr it would’ve been even more hurtful to his career, as most of the people who were going to vote for him would be extremely bigoted against that.
The sticky part is that the key difference between cheating and an open relationship is consent, so the app/site itself doesn’t change anything, his partner’s knowledge and acceptance of his use of the app/site does.
And yet here we are. I understand the stigma with Ashley Madison. If it were tinder, Grindr, or any other hookup site that is not a “cheating” site would that be ok?
I don’t think people would care about any of this nearly as much if he didn’t represent a party that claims all of these things are ‘ungodly’, and the same party that negatively attributes this kind of behavior to the LGBTQ community, while actively trying to erase their existence. I think it’s important that people call out the hypocrisy.
I don’t think the app that he used really matters as far as the criticism goes, though if it was Grindr it would’ve been even more hurtful to his career, as most of the people who were going to vote for him would be extremely bigoted against that.
The sticky part is that the key difference between cheating and an open relationship is consent, so the app/site itself doesn’t change anything, his partner’s knowledge and acceptance of his use of the app/site does.