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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”
Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.
I recently began a thread with the theme being not to broad brush Dem's or Repub's for the actions of some people affiliated with either party who do or say inappropriate things. So I'm going to stick with the notion of not doing so.
Do I believe these kinds of messages represent the thinking of all Repubs. No, unequivocally, no. Is this kind of thinking all too prevalent inside the party. I'm afraid so.
