JD Vance Defends Wildly Racist Young Republican Texts As Boys Being 'Edgy'

It seems Vice President JD Vance’s biggest problem with the leaked Young Republicans group chat isn’t the highly disturbing, racist messages they reportedly shared, but rather the fact they’re getting in trouble for it.In an appearance on rightwing streamer Real America’s Voice on Wednesday, Vance pushed back against the outrage over the so-called “I love Hitler” group chat Politico exposed on Tuesday, putting multiple leaders of Young Republicans groups on blast for reportedly referring to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people,” for talking about raping and putting their political enemies in gas chambers, and casually praising Adolf Hitler. That’s just boys being boys, Vance claimed.“Kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. Like, that’s what kids do,” he said of the scandal. “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.”Though Vance, 41, repeatedly referred to the people in the group chat as “a bunch of kids,” the Young Republican National Federation registers anyone ages 18 to 40. Peter Giunta, who was chair of the organisation’s New York state chapter when Politico said he sent the infamous “I love Hitler” text, is in his early 30s. Kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. Like, that's what kids do.Vice President JD VanceAnother person identified in the group chat, Kansas Young Republicans vice chair William Hendrix, is in his mid-20s and ran for office in Topeka in 2021. Though Politico found that slurs like “f――t,” “retarded” and “n―ga” appeared more than 251 times combined in the group chat, Vance downplayed the remarks as a one-off.“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,” he said, adding, “We’re not canceling kids because they do something stupid in a group chat. And if I have to be the person who carries that message forward, I’m fine with it.”Vance did not extend that same grace to people he accused of “celebrating” Charlie Kirk’s death, saying last month people should not be “protected from being fired for being a disgusting person.” He’s also been highly critical of pro-Palestinian college protestors, many of whom are younger than the people involved in the group chat, and vowed to “enforce the law” against them. Late Tuesday, Vance said the violent texts scandal involving Jay Jones, Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general, was “far worse” than the group chat Politico uncovered.“I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence,” the vice president wrote.

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