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[–] 26 points 1 year ago

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.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    This is how Republicans talk all across America. This is what you've heard if you have MAGA relatives. And they're either unrepentant or they say it's just a joke. 10 years ago this would have seemed topical to me. 20 years ago I'd have thought it scandalous. Right now I'm just curious why such unserious people thought they could maintain a private chat.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hendrix made a similar remark in July: “Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and kool aid with that?”

    Hendrix was a communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach until Thursday. He also said in the chat that, despite political differences, he’s drawn to Missouri’s Young Republican organization because “Missouri doesn’t like f--s.”

    William Hendrix during a portrait shoot in 2021.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    But, sure...tell us again how the violent rhetoric is all coming from the "radical left"?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    These are the voters democrats keep moving to the right for.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Giunta also had expletive-laden criticism for the Young Republicans in states that were supporting or leaning toward Padgett’s faction.

    “Minnesota - f----ts,” he messaged, continuing: “Arkansas - inbred cow fuckers Nebraska - revolt in our favor; blocked their bind and have a majority of their delegates Maryland - fat stinky Jew … Rhode Island - traitorous c---s who I will eradicate from the face of this planet.”

    Giunta also said he planned to make one of the competing Young Republicans “unalive himself on the convention floor.”

    In another instance, Douglass, the Vermont state senator, describes to the group members how one of Padgett’s Jewish colleagues may have made a procedural error related to the number of Maryland delegates permitted at the national convention.

    “I was about to say you’re giving nationals to [sic] much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest,” Brianna Douglass, Sam’s wife and Vermont Young Republican’s national committee member, replied to her husband’s message. Brianna Douglass did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    posting image because it's not loading for me.

    1000002094

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So they know objectively that what they are saying is SO wrong that they would be “cooked” if anyone outside the chat saw the messages. But they were enjoying themselves SO MUCH, presumably because they believe that these sentiments are SO right, that they kept doing it anyway. And they think they are the best qualified people to lead others in any capacity. How am I doing?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.”

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    Surprising, exactly nobody, it’s all Nazi shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    So sad, it's always the ones you most suspect. 💔

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Quelle surprise~

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I would be surprised if it wasn't the case

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    [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Love the crocodile tears. "Oh, they were doctored." "I'm sorry [for saying racist things and wishing for gas chambers], and I take full responsibility." "I should have been more careful with the people I trusted." Yeah, nobody is buying your bullshit anymore; you've said, "It's just a joke, bro," one too many times.

    Nazis can get fucked with a cactus.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Absolutely nothing about this is surprising to me in the least. What is surprising, however, is how much people recognize this is a serious problem that seems to continue to get worse, and yet people will insist that free speech is more important. We've placed restrictions on yelling fire in a theater when there is none, because it causes harm to society to do it. Why, similarly, can we not place restrictions on obviously hateful and intolerant speech? Certainly those which have larger platforms and opportunity to sew this intolerance and erode democracy should have more scrutiny, no?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    People do not understand freedom of speech. All it means is that the government cannot arrest you for saying somethnig, it does not mean "freedom from consequences" or that anything that is not the government cannot shut that shit down, which they absolutely should do.

    Social shaming and banning of certain speech should absolutely be done.

    As for the government, well, we aren't a fan of them, but we're also not a fan of cops, jails or the injustice system, so it's better that way for now.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    All it means is that the government cannot arrest you for saying somethnig

    Actually, it means a lot more than that.

    It means you're entitled to a platform - that you can say things into a microphone to a large crowd gathered for any reason on federal land that's open to individuals... including to talk about how other humans are deserving of hate. We don't owe them a space to spread hate speech. We can do better.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Right, well we are obviously against free speech as we have said many times, though not necessarily here, if it includes that as a definition.

    We don't believe every hateful thing should be able to be said, published etc. However, we're also not statists, so have no real way to stop it beyond not allowing it in our communities, never writing, publishing or letting anything hateful be said, and using social pressure to stop giving hateful people and groups a platform, or to stop others listening to them.

    This is because we don't believe in using the injustice and legal systems in order to stop such things.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This should be illegal. Two world wars fought over this kind of harmful ideology.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Honestly I'm kind of surprised (but really not) that we didn't make being a far-right Nazi illegal back in the 40s/50s

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Why would we, the U.S. wanted those Nazis to start building rockets to fight the communists. Hell, we almost immediately started supporting Franco's fascist regime in Spain! The U.S. has always loved fascists, the only reason we fought them is because the Axis decided to force us into the war by attacking the U.S.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Usually, I'd have a diatribe. Here, I'm just realizing this is all worse than I thought. They're intentionally going multigenerational on hate.

    Fuck all of them. Without lube.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    “Turn me on, dead man” —The Beatles, allegedly, in reverse, on ‘Revolution #9’

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.”

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Frankly, I used to be on board with folks like this. The world felt immutable to my brief consciousness, and joking about genocide, slavery, and, oddly enough, mandatory Pictionary nights punishable by firing squad, seemed harmless. It was all equally acceptable absurdism, in our eyes. I worry that these kids don’t see the world as an unchanging place where their ideas float around with all the weight of a butterfly. I fear they see their voices as bricks to heave and build. That terrifies me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Now watch as absolutely fucking nothing is done about these clearly heinous messages, whereas they're putting in people in jail for memes about Kirk's death. Civility only exists in one direction for these assholes.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    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.”

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    1000 pikachu faces

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    But the guy that paints his face yellow is perfectly fine....?

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    because the image isn't loading.

    1000002094

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    I know you shouldn't judge someone by their appearance, but have you seen those guys? They are literally like that famous Preacher comic panel. And they even dare calling others 'obese' and the n-word.

    A comic panel with an attractive young guy, with dark curly hair, wearing a dark jacket and a light shirt; his posture and confidence project a charismatic presence as he speaks in a challenging manner. In front of him is another person who is visibly less attractive: they have little hair, look older, wear a blue shirt, and are notable for having barely any chin. Behind them, there is a group of young people watching the scene.
The dialogue highlights the confrontation. The attractive person asks in a speech bubble: “Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? You!” The less attractive character, confused, can barely stammer before being interrupted by the first, who sarcastically adds: “Where the hell is your chin?”

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