Joseph Bernstein has a booklet length article on Buzzfeednews
of his shadowing of the career of journalist Andy Ngo, who was attacked with
serious head injuries while filming an Antifa demonstration in Portland OR.
David Rubin’s interview with Ngo is interesting, where at
22:00 Ngo explains how some Antifa people rationalize petty political violence
because they see speech by the “privileged” as a kind of implicit violence,
because the right (according to them) is a lot more responsible for terror and
violence against marginalized groups than even the far Left, and there is some
validity to that.
Bernstein gives he history of Ngo’s career, building it up
and suggests that Ngo benefits from the notoriety of covering psychologically
unhinged people. Indeed, the expectation
of coverage may encourage more violent protests. He also covers Ngo’s family’s experience with
communism in Vietnam after the US left in 1975.
Wikipedia attribution link for downtown Portland OR picture, CCSA 3.0.
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