"According to the outlet, William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans' vice chair, used racial slurs, and Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the organization, said people who did not vote for him to become chair of the Young Republican National Federation needed to go to the gas chamber. Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don't fit the Hitler aesthetic, Joe Maligno, general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans, wrote."
"According to the outlet, epithets like f****t, retarded and n**ga appeared more than 250 times in the chat logs. Luke Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, asked in one chat whether others were watching an NBA game, and Giunta responded that he'd go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball."
Messages in a Young Republican group chat spanned seven months and involved leaders from multiple states, including New York, Arizona, and Vermont. Participants used racial slurs and ableist epithets more than 250 times and posted violent, dehumanizing comments such as calls to send opponents to gas chambers, references to Hitler-era aesthetics, and expressions of wanting to watch people burn. One exchange compared Black athletes to monkeys. Vice President JD Vance defended the participants, described the chat as a college group chat, invoked another politician under scrutiny, and said he refused to join "the pearl clutching" over calls for political violence. The organization permits members aged 18 to 40.
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