I just got (purchased through Amazon) my copy of Andy
Ngo’s book, “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy”,
published by Center Street in New York and Nashville, 308 pages in hardcover,
main text ending at page 238, with index, volumes of endnotes, an introduction,
afterword, and twelve chapters. ISBN is
978-1-5460-5956-1.
Many in the mainstream media will be very critical of
Ngo’s opus, such as (Los Angeles Times) Alexander Nazaryam, with an article whose headline appears to
imply that Antifa is not a “real enemy”.
Ngo starts out his introduction by the depiction of
his milkshaking and beating in June 2020 in Portland.
His epilogue describes his parents’ expropriation
while in Vietnam after the Americans left in 1975, their forced reeducation
until their long escape. They were
regarded as criminal by communism merely having unearned capital from the labor
of workers.
Of course, I won’t diminish the gravity of the Capitol
riots on January 6 or their significance. Generally speaking (not always) white
supremacist groups are far “better” armed than the relatively amateurish antifa
“cells”. A major exception in the past
would have been the Symbionese Liberation Army that kidnapped Patty Hearst, for
example. But the demands of the Left
seem to be that the “privileged” accept arbitrary disruptions of their property
and businesses and honor their quid pro quo’s, demands to join them in quid pro
quo’s and reparations for past sins of their ancestors. This is a case of classical Marxist (or even
Maoist) moral theory getting mixed up with critical race theory. Ngo maintains that the rise of Antifa
corresponds with the growth of Black Lives Matter.
I will cover this in more detail soon on my Wordpress
Media Reviews blog.
Ngo is gay, but his index does not mention homosexuality
or gender issues. See the Los Angeles Blade article by Karen Ocamb.
Photo embed from Wikipedia, click for attribution
(from Skidmore).
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