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conix, include the author - The assault on conservative journalist Andy Ngo, explained

An unjustifiable attack — and a subsequent controversy spotlighting the militant left-wing group antifa.

By Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp [e-mail] Jul 3, 2019, 9:20am EDT

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“I pray for full and speedy recovery for journalist Andy Ngo,” writes Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader. “The hate and violence perpetrated by Antifa must be condemned in the strongest possible way by all Americans.”

But according to a second narrative, offered primarily by less well-known left-liberal writers and social media accounts, the mainstream media is getting it all wrong. Ngo is not an innocent victim but a far-right sympathizer who has doxxed antifa members in the past, potentially facilitating their harassment, and provokes them so that he can broadcast the result. The outpouring of sympathy for Ngo, in this account, is actually evidence that the mainstream media is falling for Ngo’s grift — funneling money to his Patreon and legitimizing a right-wing smear campaign against a group that’s working to protect people from the threat of violence from groups like the Proud Boys .. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/proud-boys-chat-logs-premeditate-rally-violence-in-leaked-chats_n_5ce1e231e4b00e035b928683 .

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The two main figures in these events are Ngo and antifa.

The publication where Ngo is an editor, Quillette, is widely seen as a major hub of the “intellectual dark web” — a loose collection of anti-political correctness, anti-identity politics, anti-left media figures and reporters. Ngo is the closest thing the intellectual dark web has to a gonzo journalist, someone who goes into allegedly hostile places and documents them for his more than 200,000 Twitter followers to illustrate that the IDW is right about the threat from multiculturalism and the left.

Last year, for example, Ngo went to the UK to chronicle the supposed threat the rising Muslim population posed to British society. The resulting article, “A Visit to Islamic England .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-visit-to-islamic-england-1535581583 ,” claimed England was being quietly conquered by fundamentalist Islam.

The piece was shredded by actual Brits .. https://splinternews.com/london-has-fallen-according-to-this-racist-wall-street-1828725242 . Most amusingly, Ngo presented a London sign reading “alcohol restricted zone” as evidence of Islamic dominance in the Whitechapel neighborhood; it was actually a public safety ordinance .. https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-journals-andy-ngo-writes-cowardly-islamic-england-2018-8 .. designed to discourage public acts of drunkenness from patrons of nearby pubs, bars, and strip clubs.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/3/20677645/antifa-portland-andy-ngo-proud-boys

YOU have been told before to include the author in your posts as that. There is no good reason when you post an article for you to omit the author.

Add - blackhawks, got it. Why would you suppose anyone here would support a physical attack on anyone, even that nasty Ngo, unless it was a necessary defensive effort.