Hats off to the conservative leaders who had the heart to not solely condemn the racist group-chat messages made by members of the New York State Younger Republicans, however to disband the group altogether.
“The Young Republicans was already grossly mismanaged, and vile language of the sort made in the group chat has no place in our party or its subsidiary organizations,” stated New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox.
Cox and different GOP officers had been unequivocal about their outrage, and took the right steps to handle the filth that stuffed the screens of their subsequent technology of so-called leaders
Now, right here’s the query:
What took you so lengthy?
Did you really want 4 days to achieve the conclusion that messages about “monkeys” and “watermelon people,” and rampant use of the N-word just isn’t acceptable?
Republicans have been left reeling within the days since a Politico report revealed that younger Republicans in New York and different states had been exchanging hateful messages that included racist and anti-Semitic feedback.
But, 4 full days handed earlier than anybody really did something about it, a delay that solely gave Democrats extra ammunition.
“Leadership is doing what’s right in the moment,” Seth Koslow, a Democrat operating for Nassau County government advised 1010 WINS.
“They didn’t need clarification on that. They didn’t need to investigate that,” Koslow stated. “They should have condemned it immediately and gotten rid of that organization and fired all those individuals who had those horrible things to say.”
At the very least they stated one thing.
At the very least they did one thing.
That’s greater than you may say for anybody within the Republican White Home, which is meant to set the tone for its get together.
As a substitute of taking a stand in opposition to hate, the White Home trotted out its prime Trump lackey, Vice President JD Vance, who stated the vulgarity amounted to nothing greater than boys simply being boys.
“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance stated Wednesday in an look on “The Charlie Kirk Show,” the podcast launched by the lately assassinated conservative activist.
“They tell edgy, offensive jokes, like, that’s what kids do,” Vance stated. “And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke — telling a very offensive, stupid joke — is cause to ruin their lives. And at some point, we’re all going to have to say, ‘Enough of this BS, we’re not going to allow the worst moment in a 21-year-old’s group chat to ruin a kid’s life for the rest of time. That’s just not OK.’”
Neither is excusing bigoted conduct. Vance is simply mistaken. That’s not what children do. That’s what racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic children do.
The factor about younger Republicans is that they develop as much as be previous Republicans. They don’t even need to be that previous. Vance is 41. He’s a heartbeat away from being president.
Vance stated that the group chat shouldn’t be canceled. What he’s lacking is that they’re canceling themselves.
They praised Adolf Hitler. They joked about slavery. They referred to as rape “epic.” They used epithets insulting Blacks and gays dozens and dozens of occasions.
Now, about that N-word. I do know what’s coming subsequent. Somebody will recommend that it’s OK for white folks to make use of the phrase as a result of so many Black folks use it now in music or informal dialog.
Some Black folks will say they’ve reclaimed the phrase and stripped it of its energy, they usually could disagree right here.
However, as soon as once more, right here’s a refresher course on the usage of the N-word, for individuals who could have forgotten.
And, as soon as once more, I’ll attempt to preserve it easy.
Is it ever acceptable for a Black individual to make use of the N-word? Reply: No.
A white individual? Hell, no.
Any questions?
