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Thousands of private messages reveal young #GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
from #Politico
By Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo
10/14/2025 01:15 PM EDT
Leaders of #YoungRepublican 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 āthe watermelon peopleā 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.
The Kansas Young Republicansā vice chair used the words ān--gaā and ān--guh,ā variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. The vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time referred to rape as āepic.ā