Using the chat administrator name MaoTze Abel, a reference to Chinese communist despot Mae Zedong, Carvajal oversaw exchanges in which he and other members used the N-word and other variations of the slur more than 400 times.<\/p>\n
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The group chat was started by Carjaval, founder of Florida International University\u2019s Turning Point USA chapter. Abel Alexander Carjaval\/Instagram <\/p>\n
Users, some of whom Carvajal has now recruited to local party leadership, also hurled antisemitic and deeply misogynistic insults at Jewish women and cracked wise about pleasuring themselves to Nazi propaganda. <\/p>\n
\u201cTotal Negro Death!\u201d Dariel Gonzalez, a former board member at Florida International University\u2019s College Republicans, reportedly wrote. On another occasion, he claimed that a Black American student had left the organization after another user called her the N-word. He has since applied to become a committeeman with the GOP\u2019s city chapter.<\/p>\n
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Vice President JD Vance dismissed a similar incident last October as \u201ckids\u201d doing \u201cstupid things.\u201d Kevin Lamarque-Pool\/Getty Images <\/p>\n
Another group member\u2014identified by the Miami Herald as William Bejerano, a student at Miami Dade College who last year attempted to set up an anti-abortion rights organization at the school\u2014also appears to have posted a tirade in which he fantasized about killing Black people. <\/p>\n
Sometime toward the beginning of October, the president of the college\u2019s Turning Point USA chapter, Ian Valdes, renamed the group chat \u201cGooning in Agartha.\u201d The terms refer to masturbating in a trance-like state, and a mythic civilization regarded by members of the Nazi regime as the homeland of the Aryan race. <\/p>\n
Following the change in the group name, Valdes joked he\u2019d be \u201cgoing full goy,\u201d while Gonzalez described Agartha as \u201cHeaven inside the earth.\u201d Valdes further wrote he would \u201cdef not marry a Jew,\u201d and Gonzalez suggested it was best to \u201ckeep your c–k away from them\u201d for fear of having \u201ca little k–e running around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Florida International University has confirmed to the Miami Herald the group chat is now the subject of a criminal investigation. <\/p>\n
A local Republican Party source told The Floridian that Carvajal\u2019s role as local party secretary \u201cis not symbolic; it carries a responsibility to represent all members of the organization,\u201d including the district\u2019s 170,000 African Americans who are registered Republican voters, \u201cwith professionalism and respect.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Daily Beast has contacted the Miami-Dade GOP for comment. Carvajal told the Miami Herald that he generally ignored messages sent to the group, but that \u201cI guess to an extent, I bear some responsibility.\u201d <\/p>\n
He similarly told The Floridian he had no knowledge of the racist comments as they were being posted to his WhatsApp group, and which he at times appears to have responded to. \u201cNo,\u201d he said when asked whether he would be stepping down over the slurs. \u201cOf course not, for you know, for a chat where the messages that were stated were not mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kevin Cooper, chairman of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party, struck a different tone, telling the Miami Herald that \u201canyone associated with this chat should resign immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am shocked and appalled at these statements. Racism and antisemitism have no place in the Republican Party,\u201d he said. \u201cI am proud to be the first Jewish chairman of the Miami Dade Republican Party, which is comprised of a diverse group of members from every race and background.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kevin Cooper, the chairman of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party, said anyone involved with the racist group chat should resign immediately. Kevin J. Cooper\/Instagram <\/p>\n
It now marks the second time a leaked group chat has exposed violent and racist language by young members of the GOP. <\/p>\n
In October, Politico obtained thousands of messages from a private group run by a senior member of the New York State Young Republicans, in which users wrote \u201cI love Hitler\u201d and referred to Black Americans as \u201cthe watermelon people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vice President JD Vance dismissed those messages as \u201ckids\u201d doing \u201cstupid things.\u201d<\/p>\n
In one exchange in logs from the Florida group, Valdez wrote that \u201cif this chat gets leaked we\u2019re so cooked lmao.\u201d Gonzalez responded that \u201cthis isn\u2019t even my worst one,\u201d to which Valdes replied: \u201cI\u2019m in a few on telegram that are definitely worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of young Republicans ran a group chat in which they used racial slurs like punctuation and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,14135,9850,123,125,124,1064,1929,34527],"class_list":{"0":"post-179683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-gop","10":"tag-maga","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-headlines","13":"tag-miami-news","14":"tag-miami-dade","15":"tag-racism","16":"tag-republican-party"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}