‘These Are Adults’: The View Blasts JD Vance for Defending Racist Young Republican Chats as ‘Kids’ Being Kids
The co-hosts of The View took major issue with Vice President JD Vance’s comments about a leaked Telegram chat between Young Republican leaders that included vile references to Hitler and gas chambers.
“So, a group chat featuring young Republicans from around the country was leaked that was full of racist, anti-semitic, hateful rants, and many Democrats and Republicans are strongly condemning this,” Whoopi Goldberg said. “But not the vice president. He sees things differently.”
The show played a clip of Vance telling The Charlie Kirk Show:
Focusing on what kids are saying in a group chat? Grow up. I’m sorry. Focus on the real issues. Don’t focus on what kids say in group chats. The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. Like, 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. And at some point, we’re all going to have to say, enough of this BS.
Goldberg dismissed the vice president’s argument that that the chat boiled down to “kids being kids”
“So, just so we’re clear, some of the members in this chat are between the ages of 24 and 35. So, they’re not kids,” Goldberg said. “And I have to say, is this the way you want young Republicans represented in this country?”
Alyssa Farah Griffin revealed that she once served as the national spokesperson for the College Republican National Committee.
“There is a dark underbelly in our politics that has allowed racism,” Griffin said. “It’s allowed hate. It’s allowed misogyny, and we’ve just kind of normalized it on the right, and there’s not enough folks who are willing to just call it out for what it is.”
She continued,
Secondarily, there is this crisis of young men. This is almost universally young men of a certain age. I don’t want to stereotype them, but they don’t look like guys who have a lot of friends, who have girlfriends, have intimate relationships. I don’t mean this to be mean. But if you don’t have community and you live online mostly, you can be radicalized to hate people. You don’t engage with people.You don’t have empathy for people. It’s very scary, and leaders need to wake up to it.
Watch the clip above via ABC’s The View.
