Youthful indiscretions
They’re just children, barely out of nursery school.
JD Vance sought to downplay the revelation that leaders of a group called the Young Republicans exchanged hundreds of racist, sexist text messages – including one in which rape was called “epic”, and another in which someone wrote “I love Hitler” – as youthful indiscretions.
Vance, speaking on a new episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, the podcast run by colleagues of the late conservative activist, suggested that the participants in the leaked chats were much younger than they in fact are. Some of the participants are barely younger than the 41-year-old vice-president.
Right, and he’s just a baby too, so we can’t criticize him either. Have a heart.
“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance said. “They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do. 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.”
No indeed. Adult kids who tell sexist or racist jokes must be protected; it’s those pesky bitches and n-words who must not be protected.
Politico obtained months of exchanges from a Telegram conversation between leaders and members of the Young Republican National Federation and some of its affiliates in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.
Mother Jones reports that public records indicate that eight of the 11 Republican operatives who took part in the offensive chat appear to range in age from 24 to 35.
The revelations have prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed from or resign their positions.
Oh but that would ruin their lives. Wait, what? That would ruin their lives? No it wouldn’t. Being kicked out of a political group doesn’t ruin people’s lives.
Republican legislative leaders in Vermont, along with the governor, Phil Scott – also a Republican – called for the resignation of Sam Douglass, a state senator, revealed to be a participant in the chat.
A state senator? So…not a kid then? Not within a mile of being a kid then?
Apparently Douglass is 27, so toward the younger end of the 24 to 35 age range. But no one in that range is still a kid.
What if they identify as kids? You know, their authentic selves.
Well, their authentic selves are all assholes, an identity that is easily attainable, and readily accepted by others, with no imposition or policing required.