Hats off to the conservative leaders who had the guts to not only condemn the racist group-chat messages made by members of the New York State Young Republicans, but 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,” said New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox.
Cox and other GOP officials were unequivocal about their outrage, and took the proper steps to address the filth that filled the screens of their next generation of so-called leaders
Now, here’s the question:
What took you so long?
Did you really need four days to reach the conclusion that messages about “monkeys” and “watermelon people,” and rampant use of the N-word is not acceptable?
Republicans have been left reeling in the days since a Politico report revealed that young Republicans in New York and other states were exchanging hateful messages that included racist and anti-Semitic comments.
Yet, four full days passed before anyone actually did anything about it, a delay that only gave Democrats more ammunition.
“Leadership is doing what’s right in the moment,” Seth Koslow, a Democrat running for Nassau County executive told 1010 WINS.
“They didn’t need clarification on that. They didn’t need to investigate that,” Koslow said. “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 least they said something.
At least they did something.
That’s more than you can say for anyone in the Republican White House, which is supposed to set the tone for its party.
Instead of taking a stand against hate, the White House trotted out its top Trump lackey, Vice President JD Vance, who said the vulgarity amounted to nothing more than boys just being boys.
“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance said Wednesday in an appearance on “The Charlie Kirk Show,” the podcast launched by the recently assassinated conservative activist.
“They tell edgy, offensive jokes, like, that’s what kids do,” Vance said. “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 behavior. Vance is just wrong. That’s not what kids do. That’s what racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic kids do.
The thing about young Republicans is that they grow up to be old Republicans. They don’t even have to be that old. Vance is 41. He’s a heartbeat away from being president.
Vance said that the group chat shouldn’t be canceled. What he is missing is that they are canceling themselves.
They praised Adolf Hitler. They joked about slavery. They called rape “epic.” They used epithets insulting Blacks and gays dozens and dozens of times.
Now, about that N-word. I know what’s coming next. Someone will suggest that it’s OK for white people to use the word because so many Black people use it now in music or casual conversation.
Some Black people will say they’ve reclaimed the word and stripped it of its power, and they may disagree here.
But, once again, here’s a refresher course on the use of the N-word, for those who may have forgotten.
And, once again, I’ll try and keep it simple.
Is it ever acceptable for a Black person to use the N-word? Answer: No.
A white person? Hell, no.
Any questions?
