{"id":180203,"date":"2026-03-06T02:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180203\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T02:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:52:12","slug":"florida-republicans-group-chat-underscores-gops-nazi-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180203\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Republicans\u2019 group chat underscores GOP\u2019s Nazi problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scandals involving pro-Nazi group chats seem like the only thing more common than sex<\/a> scandals<\/a> in MAGA world these days.<\/p>\n

The Miami Herald\u2019s new report<\/a> on appalling text messages exchanged in a group chat for conservative students at a Florida university comes after remarkably similar stories in the past year.<\/p>\n

As you may recall, one of those controversies exposed racist, pro-rape and pro-Hitler texts among young conservatives in New York<\/a>. This was the story that Vice President JD Vance dismissed as \u201cwhat kids do,\u201d<\/a> despite the participants being adults. And another story last fall revealed racist texts sent to GOP operatives by Trump official Paul Ingrassia, which ultimately derailed his nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the Herald:<\/p>\n

The secretary of Miami-Dade County\u2019s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall \u2014 and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as \u201cNazi heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n

In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as \u201cwhores,\u201d used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n

Abel Carvajal, the secretary of Miami-Dade County\u2019s Republican Party and a law student at Florida International University, started the group chat. He took responsibility for initiating it but said he hadn\u2019t seen many of the messages.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest regret is that in doing that, I facilitated this kind of deranged stuff being out there,\u201d Carvajal told the Herald. \u201cI\u2019m at a loss of words.\u201d<\/p>\n

The messages paint a clear picture of bigotry \u2014 and, one could argue, hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

The same MAGA movement that furiously blamed liberals for activist Charlie Kirk\u2019s death, and has suggested that accusations of Nazism put conservatives in danger<\/a>, sure has plenty of Nazi fanboys and people who sound like members of the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

Just check out some of the group chat examples provided by the Herald, like this one:<\/p>\n

Another member of the chat, William Bejerano \u2014 who tried to start a pro-life group at Miami Dade College \u2014 was the primary user of the n-word in the group. At one point, he posted a block of text calling for dozens of acts of extreme violence against Black people, who he referred to using the n-word, including crucifying, beheading and dissecting people. Bejerano hung up the phone when reached by the Herald.<\/p>\n

The report also includes these exchanges involving Dariel Gonzalez, who was recruitment chairman for FIU\u2019s College Republicans chapter at the time:<\/p>\n

\u201cEw you had colored professors?!\u201d Gonzalez wrote at another point. \u201cI reguse [sic] to be indoctrinated by the coloreds.\u201d He told the group he used the term \u201ccolored\u201d because, \u201cI was told we cant say black anymore.\u201d A couple days later, he added: \u201cAvoid the coloreds like the plague.\u201d He did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

And check out these exchanges involving Ian Valdes, the president of Turning Point USA\u2019s chapter at FIU, and Gonzalez:<\/p>\n

Gonzalez said, \u201cYou can f\u2013k all the [k-word] you want. Just don\u2019t marry them and procreate.\u201d Ian Valdes, the Turning Point USA chapter president, responded, \u201cI would def not marry a Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJa\u2019han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut\u00a0Blog.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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