But this affiliation doesn't necessarily make sense philosophically. So I've always had a fond affinity for firearms and gun rights, but in this country the issue is largely 'right-coded' from a cultural standpoint. If it makes any sense, you can sort of call it "reverse Gell-Mann amnesia ". But as I read his book I would periodically double-check his sourcing and I was often in shock with the ways he chose to report on some events. My conversations with him were at times antagonistic and critical of his journalistic approach, but I can say unequivocally that he's never treated me unfairly, quoted me in a misleading way, or otherwise burnished journalistic ethical obligations around sourcing and attribution. Like I mentioned earlier, I also have the added benefit of having been interviewed and quoted by Ngo a number of times now. There's over 400 footnotes, an additional (!) 35 pages of 'sources', and a motherfucking index (!!) of names and terms. To the book's credit, Ngo is very deliberate about citing almost every single one of his claims. What's also weird is that this is virtually never a result of deliberately false information. It's so bad at times (and also almost always unnecessary to his overall point) that I don't even come close to having a coherent explanation for his motivation. But throughout, Ngo demonstrates some really inexplicable and blatant blind spots by which an innocent reader is likely to walk away with a severely misleading impression of certain dynamics and events. Structurally, it's basically a compilation of journalistic accounts of isolated incidents with an attempt to weave it together into a cohesive meta narrative. It was baffling and extremely frustrating to read at times. The second thing I'll say is: No, I don't recommend this book. Probably fair to say that I have an unusually unique perspective on this issue. I've been interviewed by Ngo several times, and I'm even in this book.
I ultimately resigned, but it was literally because of an incident with Ngo. I love guns, and motivated primarily with the desire to inspire an appreciation of gun rights to a left-coded audience, I used to be a very prominent member of a certain John Brown Gun Club chapter. While politically I'm an anarchist with libertarian tendencies (think Reason Magazine libertarian for the most part), I also choose to fluidly navigate the political currents. Maybe the first thing you should know is that I'm by no means an uninterested party on this issue. Ngo's book on Antifa, titled "Unmasked", came out in February of this year. Simultaneously, the assault also significantly raised his profile on the national stage, even earning a shout-out from Trump himself. He unexpectedly became part of the story when he got viciously assaulted in July 2019 with liquid thrown at him and suffering a brain hemorrhage from the assault. Antifa is more of a tactic than a cohesive or tangible group, but ostensibly it describes the practice of left-wing radicals masking up and engaging in physical altercations at protests and demonstrations with individuals who are determined to be too right-wing (generally labelled as "fash" or "nazis" by Antifa).Īntifa hates Ngo.
Andy Ngo is a conservative journalist previously living in Portland OR who made reporting on Antifa his bread and butter.
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