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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

https://lemmy.world/post/37344898

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat - Lemmy.World

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. ---------- I’d love to say this surprises me, but it does not in the slightest.

Yes, pretty much the type you’d expect to be a young Republican.

Bet you they all have amazing parents too

NatakuNox Oct 15

MeekerThanBeaker Oct 14

Young Repugnants.

CaptDust Oct 14

Future leaders of the party, screeching xbox kids that fucked your mom and discord racists. Wonderful. Love that for the US.

silence7 Oct 14

Pretty much defines Republicanism today. Way too many people in denial about how extreme they’ve gotten.

Zachariah Oct 14

🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

I don’t get it.

turdcollector69 Oct 15

Always has been

There is a trope in sci-fi, horror, and suspense, that centers on the hero unveiling a conspiracy only to become a victim of it; in other words, the hero's suspicions are proven to be true, but the outcome is tragic.

Meming Wiki

Oh, I’ve never seen it in emoji form so I totally didn’t make the connection, haha. Thanks for the reminder.

TootSweet Oct 14

As if they don’t say this kind of stuff publicly.

meco03211 Oct 14

That’s just it though. They hide the worst parts of their beliefs until they are in their safe space. In public they obfuscate their true beliefs with pandering and cliche language. Prior to these revelations I’m sure they’d vehemently deny being racist. Even after this release they’d still probably try to deny it.

paper_moon Oct 14

Stole this description from the other post about this.

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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.”

BigMacHole Oct 14

This is NOT Proof that the Party of “Hitler was Right” and “We need to Protect Nazis” are Nazis!

quatschkopf43 Oct 14

It’s just some light hearted fun. Boys will be boys.

proud ones

MinnesotaGoddam Oct 15

dont forget to hashtag

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ChillPenguin Oct 15

Some locker room talk, if you will.

I used to be an internet edgelord, until I recognized that it doesn’t matter if you aren’t actually a bigot when you act like one online. The impact is the same, it makes the real ones feel more comfortable in their views.

silence7 Oct 14

Up to age 40, not just college-age

Fluffy Kitty Cat Oct 14

The thing about being edgy is that it shouldn’t necessarily imply a particular political bias but if it always goes One Direction that’s indicative

jjjalljs Oct 14

One of the “Alt Right Playbook” videos talks about how the right wing don’t argue against each other. I don’t like internet videos, but i make an exception for this series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMabpBvtXr4

The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops

Auf YouTube findest du großartige Videos und erstklassige Musik. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder mit der ganzen Welt teilen.

YouTube

ObliviousEnlightenment Oct 14

It’s honestly a tactic we need to adopt. No more infighting, no more purity testing, no more abstaining

knatschus Oct 14

Nah fuck that shit.

Diversity is strength.

ObliviousEnlightenment Oct 14

Diversity is a strength when everyone shows up, it doesn’t do you any good when you’re undermanned

knatschus Oct 14

Can you stop arguing with me and just agree with my point?

PalmTreeIsBestTree Oct 15

Diversity of views only gets you so far when everyone wants theirs on top

ObliviousEnlightenment Oct 15

I’m not falling for that. The one view should be whatever proves objectively most appealing

MinnesotaGoddam Oct 15

whatever proves objectively most appealing

nothing is more subjective than appeal

Diversity doesn’t require anyone argue.

Bronzebeard Oct 14

Except they fight all the time.

OpenStars Oct 15

Similar with social media but I am making an exception for the Fediverse:-)

El_Scapacabra Oct 15

Yep. I don’t know about similar communities on Lemmy because I avoid them like the plague, but I’ve been on reddit long enough to know that r/conservative is famous for preemptively not allowing anyone who doesn’t agree with them and immediately banning anyone if they go against the grain even a little bit, accusing them of being leftist infiltrators.

It’s the only way they can maintain their hateful bubble and their persecution fetish.

It makes for a very predictable pattern whenever something happens that MAGAts would be expected to dislike. They stay silent about it until someone higher up shows them an acceptable response or viewpoint and they all fall in line for fear of being ousted.

Lemmy leans left, which means we are all constantly arguing about it

PalmTreeIsBestTree Oct 15

Same story for me as well and changed around the same age. It’s all fun and games until you realize most of these guys are not in on the joke.

OctopusNemeses Oct 15

One thing that snapped me out of that phase was a psychology professor saying your actions define what you are.

I don’t think there are as many edgelords anymore anyways. Since the Trump MAGA era nobody pretends. It’s all out in the open now. You either are or you aren’t. Nobody hides behind the “it’s just a joke bro” stuff like in the older internet eras. The bigots aren’t hiding their power level anymore.

ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ Oct 15

I definitely know people who still pretend it’s just a joke.

SabinStargem Oct 15

Never_go_full_regard Oct 14

They are called “Basketball Americans” not “the watermelon people” jesus christ

captainlezbian Oct 14

Hoosiers?

LOGIC💣Oct 14

It’s so ironic that conservatives idolize some of history’s biggest losers, because had those losers won, there’s a chance that people today wouldn’t even be allowed to form their own opinions.

chaogomu Oct 14

That’s always the goal. If everyone is oppressed, but they get to participate in the oppression of others, they’ll jump at the chance.

It’s the fucked up social contract that fascist supporters have with their dear leader, support dear leader unconditionally and dear leader will declare a new group of people to be below the supporters in the social hierarchy. This giving the supporters license to oppress that group.

While the supporters don’t like getting shit on from above, they take great pleasure from shitting on those below.

Surely those who vote for the worst human beings imaginable will be spared from their wrath, right?

Right??

LOGIC💣Oct 14

Fascism seems to require an “other” to work. Once you’ve destroyed all of the existing “others”, the only thing left to do is to look inward and see whether those people who seemed like they were on your side were actually “others” all along.

Instigate Oct 15

And this is why fascism is inherently untenable in the long term - it becomes an ouroboros. It’s always a short-lived political philosophy as the reins keep getting tightened on who qualifies for the in-group until, eventually, those who supported it become part of the out-groups.

Getitupinyerstuffin'Oct 14

This isnt fuckings news… this is the farthest thing from relevant and important as one can get

Doomsider Oct 14

Right!? We should be talking about that racist asshat Charlie Kirk. A day to remember that hate begets hate and that people have to die to protect our gun rights.

Getitupinyerstuffin'Oct 15

Im gonna a prayer for you tonight stranger.

Doomsider Oct 15

Don’t forget Charlie, you can send prayers down as well as up.

Getitupinyerstuffin'Oct 15

Definitely, prayer to/for the dead can be of value, in this realm and the next. And Charlie is absolutely Definitely in heaven, thats how it works.

Lord, thank you for our martyred friend Charlie Kirk. He brought truth to young folks dying of starvation of truth. We dont know why you let such evil befall such an undeserving person, but your ways are higher than ours. Bless his family and let his message be even louder than ever and reach more young folks than ever. Bless the shooter. Open his eyes and let him see his errors and may he become a new creation in Christ. Thank you Lord for your love. Amen

Doomsider Oct 15

Dear Lord please punish Charlie for his sins against humanity. You may not exist, but if you did you would rain hellfire down upon the diseased organization known as Turning Point. An organization that created right wing hate propaganda dividing God’s people along imaginary lines. There is no greater sin as to other and dehumanize people.

May Charlie’s children learn the truth about their hateful mother and father and disown them before God. Only then can they join the imaginary kingdom of heaven.

May you turn the hearts who have been poisoned against their fellow man, in particular the hater and propagandist Soktopraegaeawayok. He knows not what he does and there is still time to save his soul from eternal damnation. I ask these things of you our in the name of the made-up lord and savior Jesus Christ.

Getitupinyerstuffin'Oct 15

Lol, multiple times you admitted that you dont believe God, and mocked Him. Your empty words are only that, empty.

But I do sincerely pray that God will move in your life and that you will see truth. Amen.

Doomsider Oct 15

Dear imaginary Lord, I pray to you to intervene right now in this hateful troll’s heart. He denies you are imaginary and all your made-up glory. Please help him see the truth that you do not exist.

He knows not what he does because you never gave him the ability to think critically or examine his own beliefs. This is clearly your fault imaginary father. Every time this poor human prays they are only praying to their own empty ego.

I do sincerely ask that you work on their heart. Just as you did on mine helping me to see everyone has lied about you. The truth will set him free from the shackles of his own creation. Please imaginary lord and father do this so that they may find peace. Amen.

Getitupinyerstuffin'Oct 15

So, I haven’t read your last comment and im not going to, its pointless chatter and im sure youre trying to be insulting. Love you brother. Be blessed, God loves you and wants you to turn towards Him. This could be your turning point.

Doomsider Oct 15

Please made-up lord, act on this troll’s heart. He knows not what he does for he has been deceived and lied to by his fellow man. His heart is full of lies which he masks with insincerity.

He pretends so hard he has a connection with you, but the truth is he is a hollow hater devoid of spiritualism living a life of blasphemy. Please imaginary lord give him the pity he deserves for no man can see the truth under the illusion that you exist. Amen.

burntbacon Oct 14

Publicly showing this is important. Hopefully this article comes up every time they apply for a job, or appear in public.

CharlesDarwin Oct 15

Has anyone started to link them up to their real names and addresses?

It’d be nice if some company would start offering services to do background checks on people for hateful comments. Oh, I’m sure there would be lots of butthurt about it, and people rearing up on their hind legs, barking out some shit about “rights” and “freedom”, but if there are private companies issuing FICO scores on things like private purchases, etc…why the fuck shouldn’t something like that exist?

If companies are doing background checks into your finances, why not about the shit you say, even if it’s been leaked?

Getitupinyerstuffin'Oct 15

Geezus… im sorry, but yer an idiot.

Getitupinyerstuffin'Oct 15

Showing this doesnt do anything. Guess what, people know that many people are absolutely terrible, harping on it only gives it more strength and spreads more hate. And you can’t stop hate with hate, it doesnt work that way.

Also, im sure you have said some shit that you wouldn’t want to admit to. I know i have. I think 99.99% people have said regrettable shit. Let us let people change. In fact, forgiving someone’s past is exactly how we help a person change. Go on though, keep hating, keeping hate/unforgiveness will make a person physically ill. Love

burntbacon Oct 15

Holding someone accountable is not hating.