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They weren't afraid to tell it like it is ... In a private group chat (lemmy.world)
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[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Context - far, far worse than the comic would lead you to believe:

Leaked Telegram messages contained over 28,000 exchanges from January to August 2025 among leaders of Young Republican chapters in Arizona, Vermont, Kansas, and New York, including at least one member from the Trump administration.

The chat discussed votes, social media strategies, and logistics. It also included racist and antisemitic slurs, white supremacist slogans and symbols, comments encouraging rape of political opponents to drive them to suicide, praise for Adolf Hitler, promotion of gas chambers, and enthusiasm for Republicans believed to support slavery. Giunta and its members referred to Black people as monkeys and "the watermelon people". One member stated "I'd go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball" about an invitation to an NBA game. The slurs f#ggot, r#tard, and n#gger appeared over 251 times. In discussing Giunta's defeat in an election for chair of the Young Republicans National Federation, Walker called for the winner to be raped. When referring to a colleague's girlfriend, Walker stated she was a "stinky, obese Indian woman". He said would "love to see" an opponent get raped, and described the colonial sexual violence perpetrated by Spanish explorers in the 1700s as "epic".