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.
people are being disappeared by government agents in plain clothes and masks. This isn’t a joke. they aren’t joking. they aren’t having fun. they are laughing about the horror they visit on their neighbors for not being white. I’m sure the KKK had a lot of off color jokes in private while they were building the bombs that killed black children too. You don’t need be worried if they have enough free speech and personal lee way to make off colored jokes while they build the machine to kill YOU with. You’re VERY high on the list, or are you insane and think this stops at Hispanic and African American people so your OK with it? OR ARE YOU SIMPLY LYING.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. For these particular people, since they’re my political opponents, I am glad that we can pounce on this slip-up that they made and get them cancelled. I just don’t think there’s anything objectively wrong with making politically incorrect jokes, and it’d be a double standard for me to think it’d permissible only if they were politicians I liked.
Of course, in 2025, we don’t really have the luxury of trying to apply a consistent standard to our opponents. These days it seems like we have to take what we can get when it comes to political warfare. (/genuine, in case there was doubt.)
BTW, stop it with the all-caps or I’ll block you.