evidence: 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. [...] An earlier clip of his speech that didn’t include part of Robinson’s remarks where he denounced the dictators he named went viral 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.