'Sickening': Leaked chats reveal 'insensitive and inexcusable' texts among Young Republicans - Alternet.org
By: Lesley Abravanel (Alternet. org)
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In an exclusive story, Politico got access to thousands of private messages revealing young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers and slavery, among other "insensitive and inexcusable" topics.
The chats took place on the Telegram app, Politico reports. In them, they "referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers."
Kansas Young Republicans vice chair William Hendrix, former vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans Bobby Walker and Chairman of the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs Peter Giunta were among the Republican leaders named in the report.
"Can we fix the showers?" Joe Maligno, who previously identified himself as the general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans, replied.
"I'm ready to watch people burn now," Annie Kaykaty, New York's national committeewoman, said.
The 2,900 pages of chats shared among young Republicans between January and mid-August also featured members talking "about the pressure to cow to Trump to avoid being called a RINO."
Giunta, Politco reports, apologized, saying "I am so sorry to those offended by the insensitive and inexcusable language found within the more than 28,000 messages of a private group chat that I created during my campaign to lead the Young Republicans."
"While I take complete responsibility, I have had no way of verifying their accuracy and am deeply concerned that the message logs in question may have been deceptively doctored," Giunta said.
Social media, however, wasn't so accepting of the apology, nor were they surprised about the context of the messages.
"Shocked. Shocked I tell you. Who could have expected this from them?" wrote veteran Kirk Wolff on X.
"This is Charlie Kirk's legacy," wrote Drew Smith on X.
"They can't even scream liberal 'fake news!' cause it was leaked by Republicans," wrote Profiteroles Carmichael on X.
"This is sickening, the rhetoric needs to be toned down on both sides, and even though I voted for Pres Trump 3 times, he needs to stop it too, we need a calm leader who wants to unite the country, not childish memes and name calling," wrote Sherri Twigg on X.
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Young Republicans reveal their true selves.
I seeded this exact topic from politico three or fours ago and didnt get a single comment. Good luck with try #2.
Sorry, I didn't see that. We keep overlapping in our postings.
The Republicans know it's true and wouldn't dispute it. They have nothing to say since it speaks for itself.
I dont know, I think Vic should come on this seed and defend this shit. You know he wants to.
Seems young republicans = Hitler youth.
Rotten apples rarely fall far from their trees.
the maga hits just keep coming ...
I dont exactly agree with that, but I do think this was the reason Charlie Kirk became so popular among right wing youth.
I don't think that our NT version of republicans want to talk about this.
If they show up at all they will probably go Nut-uh and show me and I looked and looked and looked.....
Exactly.
To be fair, not all conservative Republicans are secret Christo-fascists and white supremacists. However, with these texts it makes it pretty clear that the vast majority of those who are secret Christo-fascists and white supremacists support Trump and consider themselves conservative Republicans.
The history of black Americans eating watermelon is interesting, because I have read history that Blacks were sellers of this fruit. . .so much so that white conservatives sabotaged them to take over and capitalize their trade away.
These conservative jerks have been mocking minorities and anybody else that does not conform to their worldview non-stop for centuries. It never seems to want to end. Such conservatives never change their hearts and minds-they are just stuck on stupid.
I feel like this is how the new right talks to each other anytime they think nobody is watching. The saddest part is the indignation they display, not about what they said but about how they were outed. And how exactly does one “deceptively alter” such vile language? Maybe Maligno thought he was in a DIY plumbing forum?
that's pretty close to being mostly correct. I've worked with a bunch of racist knuckle draggers at a few jobs and I'm no longer shocked at how many assume that I'm as big a racist as they are just because I'm a old white guy. most of them also assume that I'm a trump supporter as well, since I never discuss religion or politics in mixed company.
Devangelical, you make my day!
I am a version of you in the sense that I 'go' to churches and it is assumed that I am conservative because well, God/bible are from olde-but, I am not conservative. . . I took a pass when that 'truck' drove by to pick me up (and it did come by in the form of a "consciousness attack").
I do not support and do not wish to be one with people who lie, deceive, mock, and kill Others-simply because they can not be and do not wish to possess "a conservative mind."
They can lie all they want; the truth will keep on finding them and 'outing' them.
(So this is the messaging we see online. . .potentially there is more of the same (or worse) in the 'Unseen' yet remaining to be exposed!)
This is the 'next step' for republicans to 'free' themselves from what they love to call: "PC, Political correctness." They will claim it their right to be able to say stupid, bigoted, racist words about anybody they choose as American citizens (and hold the same job while doing it). I hear they are being fired, not hired, and placed under suspension or worse. However, look for some (if not all) of them getting their jobs back!
that's all freedom of speech is to them. they want to be able to say the N-word without fear of having their skulls beat into mush.
They keep screaming publicly "stop calling us Nazi's" when in chats they celebrate being Nazi's. Vance is wrong trying to cover this up as just "kids" being stupid.
Vance is truly a 'our-way' perspective kind of VP. I find him and his 'winsome' speaking technique to be deceptive and epistemologically ignorant!
This is what republicans have wanted all along. . . just a nation full of themselves unbridled and running around mocking and offending Others. The party gives a damn about liberty, freedom, and just for all! It's all about them and their wishes and ambitions only and at all times!
This is the right time to tell the truth about them and to call them out about their selfish, bigoted, trifling worldview!
And calling them out for being the party with a racist COALITION buoying up their numbers. Shame of selfish and stupid minorities who go along to get along with a party that sees them as a means to ITS end and not as equals.
And when called out they ALWAYS say it was the Republicans who freed the slaves and the Dixie-crats who were the Southern Democrat whites wanting to keep slavery.
But we know the history, the background, and the context to 'all that'—a wholesale swapping out of political party politics!
Conservatism is a mental illness.
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... and maga is an std.
stupidity transmission disorder...