Young Conservatives Are, Once Again, Being Racist in the Group Chat

Leaked Young Conservatives Are, Once Again, Being Racist in the Group Chat A Miami-Dade County Republican Party group chat was flooded with slurs weeks after it was created By Nikki McCann Ramirez Nikki McCann Ramirez View all posts by Nikki McCann Ramirez March 5, 2026 Vacationers have long known that Miami group chats can be a force for evil. Friendship-ruining, relationship-destroying, and, in the case of the Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party, a national scandal. The Miami Herald reported this week that the local Republican chapter’s recently established Whatsapp group chat for young conservatives was quickly overrun with racist and misogynistic posts. According to the Herald, users threw around racist slurs against Black and Jewish people with abandon, including hundreds of instances of the n-word. In one instance College Republicans Recruitment Chair Dariel Gonzalez wrote that “you can f–k all the [k***s] you want. Just don’t marry them and procreate,” leading Florida International University Turning Point USA chapter president Ian Valdes to reply that he “would def not marry a Jew.” Another user, William Bejerano, sent a long list of violent acts he encouraged against Black people. The n-word packed message included acts like crucifixion, dissection, and beheading. The chat also went through several rounds of renaming, including “Uber R****d Yapping,” and “Gooning in Agartha,” a reference to Nazi esoterica associated with SS head Heinrich Himmler. In response, Florida International University has opened an investigation into the group chat and the students allegedly involved. Two Republican Florida state senators have also called for the involved students to be expelled. “The statements made by those individuals clarify their moral and intellectual corruption and demonstrate a complete misalignment with core, shared American values,” State Senator Alexis Calatayud (R-38) wrote in a Facebook post. “The individuals in the group chat have exposed how profoundl...