"The leaked chat logs - spanning 2,900 pages of dialogue from January to mid-August - showed leaders of the GOP group referring to Black people as monkeys and "the watermelon people," talking about raping and putting political enemies in gas chambers or driving them to suicide, and also praising Republicans who they believed support slavery. "The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening,""
"Some of the most offensive messages in the leaked chat came from William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans' vice chair who was a communications assistant for Kansas' Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach (but was fired after the chats became public), and Peter Giunta, who was chair of the New York State Young Republicans and serves as chief of staff to New York state Republican Assemblymember Mike Reilly."
The leaked chat logs span 2,900 pages from January to mid‑August and include more than 251 uses of slurs, including the n-word. Leaders of Young Republican groups praised Hitler, used antisemitic language, referred to Black people as monkeys and "the watermelon people," joked about gas chambers and rape, and discussed driving political opponents to suicide. William Hendrix, Kansas Young Republicans vice chair and former communications assistant to Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and Peter Giunta, New York State Young Republicans chair and a state assemblymember's chief of staff, posted some of the most offensive messages; Hendrix was fired after the chats became public. The messages indicate a culture in which racist, antisemitic, and violent rhetoric circulated freely among rising GOP activists.
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