{"id":113603,"date":"2021-01-31T04:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T09:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113603"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:45:05","slug":"andy-ngo-unmasks-antifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andy-ngo-unmasks-antifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Ngo Unmasks Antifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fandy-ngo-unmasks-antifa%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Antifa-768x540-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andy Ngo fell to the concrete, bleeding from his ear. Vessels in his brain had burst, doctors later told him, and blood pooled on his brain. Ngo, a journalist, had been attacked by members of Antifa while covering one of the &#8220;antifascist&#8221; group\u2019s demonstrations in Portland in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;No hate, no fear,&#8221; Ngo recalled the group shouting around him.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Culture<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/andy-ngo-unmasks-antifa\/\"><strong>Andy Ngo Unmasks Antifa<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/march-for-life-charts-course-for-biden-administration\/\"><strong>March for Life Charts Course for Biden Administration<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/inside-the-diversity-audit-conducted-at-a-top-u-s-prep-school\/\"><strong>Inside the &#8216;Diversity Audit&#8217; Conducted at a Top U.S. Prep School<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Portland native learned early on, however, that hate and fear are bedrocks of this radical movement. Ngo began covering Antifa for the Portland State <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vanguard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where he went to graduate school, taking on what he called the &#8220;dissident beat.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Colleagues were never fond of the stories I was interested in telling,&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ngo told the<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Washington Free Beacon.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8220;[But] I continued on that path of always being on the dissident beat, covering Antifa, and stuck with it. The gap between local and national press on reporting was so wide, that I had to step in and do it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his new book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unmasked: Inside Antifa\u2019s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ngo details the violent rise of this organized but &#8220;amorphous&#8221; group in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Antifa is an ideology. It\u2019s amorphous\u2014that is difficult for the average person to understand,&#8221; Ngo told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;There\u2019s another whole structure to Antifa that includes working in the legal, democratic system by systematically mainstreaming tenets of the ideology. The fact that they are decentralized and anonymously organized gives them deniability.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That deniability goes &#8220;all the way up&#8221; to Democratic politicians who &#8220;don\u2019t believe there is really any true organizational element&#8221; to the group. To take one example, Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, called Antifa a &#8220;myth&#8221; when he was asked about the group&#8217;s contribution to months of violent riots in Portland last summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Likewise, the media over the last four years have offered little in the way of opposition, as detractors were smeared as pro-fascist or labeled racist or bigoted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Nobody wants to be vocally [critical] of a movement claiming to be antifascist,&#8221; said Ngo. &#8220;Those who do, myself and other journalists included, get smeared\u2014in my case nearly killed\u2014so they can have control over the narrative.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Associated Press, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and other outlets not only denied that members of Antifa committed violence last summer, but also molded the narrative into one of positivity and peace. In his book, Ngo points to an example from the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daily Beast<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which published a story last summer that claimed businesses in Seattle &#8220;loved&#8221; the &#8220;CHAZ\/CHOP&#8221; autonomous zone\u2014a six-block stretch of the downtown area that rioters occupied for weeks. But in the zone, six people were shot\u2014two fatally\u2014and others reported being assaulted and raped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How did it come to this? Antifascist movements began under the Weimar Republic as an offshoot of the German Communist Party called Antifascist Action. It spread across Europe\u2014notably, to the United Kingdom. There, it blended with British &#8220;punk subculture&#8221; and developed an anarchist flavor distinct from its pro-communist German counterparts. This newer strain of antifascism was then exported to the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the end of 2016, following the election of Donald Trump, local, centralized chapters of Antifa were proliferating. In addition to educating members in critical race and gender theory, firearms usage, and creating anonymous online personas, these hubs act in unison with unaffiliated bands of &#8220;black-bloc&#8221; misfits during their planned protests and violent attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antifa intimidates opponents with threats of violence and harassment, ranging from doxxing to death threats to actual physical violence, as in Ngo&#8217;s case. The group is responsible for attacks on police officers and the deaths of fellow protesters and civilians\u2014including several during last summer\u2019s wave of riots and protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antifa justifies the violence as &#8220;self-defense.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The word \u2018violence\u2019 is being systematically remade to conform to their worldview,&#8221; Ngo writes in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unmasked<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;Looting and arson aren\u2019t violence, they argue. And yet physical violence directed at their opponents is also not violence but rather \u2018self-defense.\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ngo began writing the book (which comes out Feb. 2) in 2019 with plans to publish in 2020. He pushed back the deadline, however, after Antifa and Black Lives Matter protests ignited in May, following the death of George Floyd. Ngo said he witnessed the two organizations\u2014bound by Marxism and a disdain for the American criminal justice system\u2014blend into one entity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;There are different agendas, but enough overlap that they have really merged into the same entity,&#8221; Ngo told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;There\u2019s cooperation, from what I can see, and an ideological cross-pollination from both sides.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it evolves, Ngo will continue tracking Antifa and its mission to upend America and its institutions. For him, it\u2019s personal: His parents came to the United States in 1979 after fleeing from communist prison camps in Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;As much as this book is about antifa,&#8221; Ngo&#8217;s final lines in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unmasked<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> read, &#8220;it\u2019s also a letter of gratitude to the nation that welcomed my parents, penniless refugees from the socialist republic of Vietnam, to become equal citizens.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/andy-ngo-unmasks-antifa\/\">Andy Ngo Unmasks Antifa<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Ngo fell to the concrete, bleeding from his ear. Vessels in his brain had burst, doctors later told him, and blood pooled on his brain. 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