FIU College Republican Leader Quits Over "Disgusting Hate" in Group Texts
At Florida International University, the fallout over a leaked group chat from the school's College Republicans is still spreading. After New Times first reported Friday about the chats — which show the young GOP students joking about deporting classmates and making light of the attack by a white supremacist in Charlottesville — the school announced it was investigating the group.
Now hundreds of students have signed a petition urging FIU President Mark Rosenberg to "take immediate action" against the College Republicans, and the club's vice president has resigned over the "disgusting hate." In fact, the former vice president says he had earlier reported the offensive comments to school authorities, who did nothing to curb the problem.
"I was elected VP and hoped I was able to cause real change and stop the radicalism that is happening," writes Mauricio Pons, who says he's the grandson of Cuban immigrants and was particularly disturbed by the College Republicans' xenophobic tenor. "I'm sad to say that for nine months my efforts were futile and I left the group chat because of its toxicity and hate speech."
The chats, which New Times received from an anonymous tipster in the group, show FIU's College Republicans sharing memes calling the protesters injured and killed in Charlottesville by Nazis "snowflakes." The group also discussed calling ICE on classmates who protested in favor of protecting young undocumented immigrants last week.
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Florida is getting more diverse as people move there. Retirees plus immigrants plus US citizens from Puerto Rico.
The repubs in Florida are probably dumb enough to believe the grandchildren of immigrants can be deported somewhere unless they have a last name like Trump.
