A conservative student group at Arizona State University is being investigated after a 19-page dossier highlighting recent homophobic, anti-Semitic, and racist remarks made by some of its members leaked online.
Screenshots of online chats and other social media posts from the dossier were obtained and published by Phoenix News Times, which reports:
College Republicans United (CRU) is a small offshoot of ASU’s College Republicans chapter. The group formed in early 2018 by students who pushed for views outside traditional conservative beliefs.
The group’s founder, ASU senior Richard Thomas, has already come under criticism for social media posts saying transgender people have mental illness and that Muslims should be deported, among other offensive comments.
Among the remarks made by Thomas in the dossier include a Facebook Messenger chat where he refers to homosexuality as “degeneracy” and a “choice.”
“I don’t believe homosexuality or this level of degeneracy is biological,” Thomas wrote. “It’s a choice.”
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“The ancient Spartans were all f*cking each other because it was in the culture same thing for feudal Japan a lot of them were bisexual.”
Other comments made by Thomas include:
- Calling rapper Childish Gambino, who is black, “degenerate monkey filth.”
- Using anti-Semitic symbols when chatting about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and in comments about an Alex Jones video.
- Writing “Remind me why we can’t have a eugenics policy again?” in the comments section about children living with disabilities.
Texts written by another former CRU member, Kevin Decuyper, who graduated from ASU in 2017, also surfaced.
When Decuyper posted a picture of himself with right-wing commentator Candace Owens, someone named Austin Wilcox asked: “What’s with the n*gger in your profile picture?”
To which Decuyper replied, “I work in state politics and co-founded a right wing organization that’s already called Nazis/alt-right regularly so it helps me a lot to be camouflaged and low key on my public profile because it helps to have the support of the right wing community who thankfully don’t know my more extreme views.”
In a statement, CRU called the article a “hit piece” and accused the Phoenix News Times of publishing “cherry-picked excerpts out of context” from its members’ private chat histories.
Meanwhile, in tweet posted last week, the university says its investigating the matter to see if any violations of the student code of conduct have been committed.
The New Times reporting marks the first time the university has been made aware of these alleged statements. We are investigating, because we take these matters extremely seriously. If a violation of the student code of conduct is found it will be dealt with.
— Arizona State University (@ASU) March 22, 2019
DCguy
This isn’t a “Conservative” group. It’s a Republican group, as stated in their name.
iowadude
sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference but you’re right – don’t disguise exactly who they are
QueerTruth
Wrong. As stated in the article:
“College Republicans United (CRU) is a small offshoot of ASU’s College Republicans chapter. The group formed in early 2018 by students who pushed for views outside traditional conservative beliefs.”
DCguy
@QueerTruth
Does the group support Republicans? Yes.
Does the group call itself Republicans? Yes
Does the Group have “Republicans” in it’s name? Yes
Did the group spin itself off from another Republicans group? Yes
Your comment would try to claim that the tea partiers aren’t Republican because they spun off which is incorrect. But nice try.
OhNoYouDont
QueerBot, “Wrong. As stated in the article:
“College Republicans United”. …..was someone blocking the name Republicans from your view?
CobraPowers
Oh darling, how do you feel now that the Mueller report showed NO RUSSIAN COLLUSION?
LMAO!!!!!
DCguy
@CobraPowers
Thank you for showing that you troll accounts are only here to push the GOP agenda and aren’t actually LGBT accounts. See, the fact that you took a post about Republicans being racists and bigots and desperately tried to derail the comment pretty much exposes your agenda.
But thanks for playing gurl.
jcoberkrom
The first time ASU was made aware of these statements???
I doubt it. It’s just public now and they HAVE to!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Abhorrent, noxious most likely closet case Nazis…
bodie425
They don’t sound too closeted to me.
djmcgamester
Can we drop the Nazi bullshit and call them what they really are? They’re racist and homophobic assholes. You disrespect the millions who were killed in the Holocaust by using this term so causally.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Thousands of Gays were killed in the Holocaust. Many of these vile smcubags have stated they would be in favor if the death penalty for Gays…..
so I call ’em as I see ’em
PinkoOfTheGange
Not to defend the GOP, but are these wannabe Nazzeez chartered or even affiliated with the National party? Hitlers party called them selves socialists all the while planning to. and then following through, sending actual socialists to to the camps.
BTW although atrocious language it is free speech. Not sure what the Uni is supposed to do. Now the other students could do some public shaming, that would be an entertaining video.
Rob91316
Shameful. But not at all surprising this went down in the fascist state of Arizona.
CobraPowers
Nowadays the only fascists are the left
Diplomat-G
@Cobrapowers,
Cobra honey wouldn’t you feel more comfortable playing in the snake pit called the GOP, Trolling here simply proves your level of stupidity…..Now go away little garden snake you have no fangs to fight with.
djmcgamester
I think unless it actively promotes violence it’s considered okay. Of course, other campuses go the other way and ban free speech. I’m very consistent in saying that I’d rather these people speak openly so we know who they are. Do we really want to force them underground and not know what they’re up to?
RIGay
Douche bags by any other name…
CobraPowers
No excuse for any of the disgusting things they’ve said. But why isn’t Queerty talking about the LEFTIST college groups threatening conservatives and setting on fire their door rooms? Or the LEFTIST LGBT groups keeping a BLACK, GAY, VETERAN CONSERVATIVE from speaking at an event? Nowadays, the only true fascists, calling for and engaging in political violence are the LEFT and the “progressives”.
Wicked Dickie
‘…When Decuyper posted a picture of himself with right-wing commentator Candace Owens, someone named Austin Wilcox asked: “What’s with the n*gger in your profile picture?” Pretty sure that’s not the first time she’s been called that by right-wing conservatives. Yet she professes herself to be one. Lost, lost, lost.
Prax07
Eugenics is a good thing though.
Kangol
Are you volunteering those like yourself?
gingered1970
I can just see it now. When the University comes down hard. Republicans will scream violation of First Amendment Rights to Free Speech.
Billy Budd
Wasn’t EUGENICS a very fashionable thing among “those” Germans from the 30’s and 40’s?
gingered1970
Yup.
Kangol
Not just the Germans. Eugenics was a big deal among white supremacists in the US and the UK. Don’t let the US, whose racist policies inspired Adolf Hitler, off the hook.
James Q. Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Princeton University Press) is an excellent study on how Hitler deeply admired the US’s racist policies and violence against Native Americans and African Americans, and used them to shape the Nuremberg Laws that provided the basis for the Holocaust, internment of gay people, etc.
Another is Stefan Kühl’s The Nazi Connection (Oxford University Press), which explores US eugenics policies’ and leaders’ influence on Hitler and the Nazis.
Kangol
Why are these young white ultraconservative Republicans so full of hate? They have the entire world before them, so why do they hate gay people so much?
Daggerman
…republicans are fundamentally racist and ignorant. They adore the Bible because it encourages the weak minded to become gang up and refuses to acknowledge any discovery about what is FACT concerning the human race. There is something to understand here, if you seek wrongful and righteousness look to the bible but in the end in truth you are a simple useless being and a biased coward.