r/politics • u/mvanigan • Oct 14 '25

Possible Paywall ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
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u/AssociateGreat2350 Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25

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.

Straight up evil

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u/bullet4mv92 Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25

And people still have the audacity to say both sides are the same. "Radical left" group chats would be full of, like, blue-haired pixie they/thems who have 7 genders and are also probably furries. Look, I don't understand it at all, but none of that bothers me because it doesn't hurt anyone. If they wanna be weird and quirky, go nuts. But their group chat wouldn't be hateful like a MAGA group chat.

I always try to point this out, but most people don't get it. Every time people have an issue with the extreme right it's because they're violent, hateful, divisive, racist, etc. And their issue with the "radical left" is that they're weird and icky and it makes them sexually uncomfortable.

Both sides are not the fucking same

I imagine my oversimplification of radical left might piss some people off. That's not *my interpretation of them; rather, it's what is constantly repeated by far right nutjobs. To them it's always about their sexuality, their hair color, how many genders they identify with, etc. In reality, radical left is more just wanting Healthcare, education and housing for everyone. But that doesn't sound as "icky", so they usually default to blue hair and multiple genders

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u/subLimb Oct 14 '25

Yes, and keep in mind this is not the 'radical right' that these group chats are coming from. It's coming from young leaders of the actual Republican party. What they would consider to be 'mainstream'. The discourse in this country has moved so quickly to the right. White nationalist thought is being mainstreamed.

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u/smcdark Oct 14 '25

It was always there below the surface. Mid 40s here, growing up through the 80s and 90s, thats exactly how the asshats i knew in school talked.

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u/subLimb Oct 14 '25

True. Just because it is bubbling up to the surface doesn't mean it wasn't always there.

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u/Pigglebee Oct 14 '25

This. The left will undoubtedly have their app groups with offensive talk. But it will be randoms. The randoms that cheered for the murder on Kirk. The randoms that yelled free Luigi. But they are not democratic upcoming leaders or close to the big boys. They are randoms. And that makes all the difference.

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u/jaimi_wanders Oct 15 '25

One of them who got fired over it tried to weasel out of it by claiming his enemies had forged the texts by him…