The left is reaching for new lows in their commentary about the world after independent journalist Andy Ngo was the victim of an attack by Antifa in Portland yesterday. Call me ignorant, but I expected them to be silent on the issue. I expected some of them to even come out condemning the actions of the group many of them have supported. But to stoop to victim shaming is disgusting.
I didn't expect progressives to show any support for @MrAndyNgo after the Antifa attack, but I also didn't expect them to try to turn this around and blame him. When victim shaming becomes the new version of virtue signaling, every aspect of their message becomes irrelevant.
— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) June 30, 2019
The age of discourse is behind us. I don’t think I’m being melodramatic when I say all hope for sane and relevant discussions with radical progressives are behind us. They do not see the world as a set of problems to be solved or causes to advance. They cannot see beyond the hatred in their hearts or hear anything but the vitriol they spew. Instead of calling out Antifa, there have been two responses from the left. They either quietly deleted any evidence of past support or they doubled down and blamed the victim.
It’s sickening. Here are some examples:
The “but” pretty much negates everything else. Well done. https://t.co/LLA83eIEf8
— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) June 30, 2019
I’d argue what the fear mongering he’s done against Muslims plus the work he’s done to discredit hate crimes, helped create an atmosphere of violence that vulnerable people all have to live through just for being who they are. This is bad, but he’s guilty of worse.
— Aymann Ismail (@aymanndotcom) June 30, 2019
Andy Ngo intentionally provokes people on the left to drive his content. Being attacked today on video taken by an actual journalist (because Ngo is definitely not) is the greatest thing that could have happened to his career.
You know it. I know it. He knows it. We all know it.
— Charlotte Clymer?️? (@cmclymer) June 30, 2019
Dems in damage-control mode. Deputy Chair of the DNC Keith Ellison deleted his tweet supporting Antifa.
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) June 30, 2019
https://twitter.com/SetonMotley/status/1145374753500389376
Andy Ngo is someone who antagonizes those he knows will react in a disproportionate way and this exact outcome was inevitable. Everyone knew it.
Those who assaulted him, however, are the ones at fault here. https://t.co/CKyYzxdESh
— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) June 29, 2019
Instead of coming to a fellow journalist’s defense, leftwing journos are now painting @MrAndyNgo, who was beaten and robbed by a violent mob… as the aggressor.
Now merely standing and filming is “antagonizing.” https://t.co/ZCBO37inri
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) June 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1145318494721982464
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1145355223780724736
The leftist media effort to protect #AntifaTerrorists and minimize their violence is unsettling.
This really is a battle of good versus evil at this point.
— RAM (Richard Armande Mills) (@RAMRANTS) June 30, 2019
Violence is completely wrong, and I find it sad and weak to allow a sniveling weasel like Andy Ngo to get under one's skin like this, but I'm also not going to pretend that this wasn't Ngo's goal from the start.
I mean… let's cut the shit here. This is what they do.
— Charlotte Clymer?️? (@cmclymer) June 30, 2019
Can you fathom the unimaginable shame you must harbor if you’re the parent of one of these ANTIFA chumps? What must they tell their friends? They probably lie and say they’re childless. What a filthy lot of complete degenerates and zeroes.
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) June 30, 2019
Smelly Antifa is lying about me, as usual
Portland PD posted their report about quick-drying cement a full 6 hours before I tweeted out this photo that was submitted to us
The horrific attack on a gay journalist must be investigated and those responsible brought to justice pic.twitter.com/Aasl56zLUm
— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) June 30, 2019
https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1145170874888101889
He is not a journalist. He's a propagandist and advocate of scientific racism who goes to these things trying to start shit in hopes of getting attacked. If he was hit by something other than a milkshake or silly string, that's not OK, doesn't make him a "journalist" though.
— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) June 29, 2019
He could suffer brain damage from being smacked across the head by a Leftist nutjob, and you’re here to cheer it. You people are ghouls. Get help. https://t.co/n601F0VAHZ
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) June 30, 2019
Tribalism has become so extreme in modern society that it’s becoming very difficult to stay on the high road. But we must. What Andy Ngo did was courageous. It was not antagonizing for the sake of antagonizing, as so many leftists have painted it. Yes, he knew his presence wasn’t accepted at the event. But to say he went there to get attacked is a bogus insinuation when we consider his goals. He is a reporter. He has been reporting on these incidents for a long time. This is not the first example of violence perpetrated by Portland’s Antifa thugs, and as a courageous journalist he felt the need to document it.
As he should.
But knowing that one is in danger by attending an event like this does not mean he was antagonizing them. This is the United States of America. That means we should have a realistic expectation that in a major city like Portland with police and other journalists present, violence like this should be suppressed. This angry mob was angry by design. They turned violent because they intended to commit violence when they donned their masks of cowardice.
This is the left’s most carnal form of intimidation, born from hatred, and developed to keep the people of Portland fearful. The fact that Andy Ngo overcame those fears to stand within arm’s reach of them is not antagonizing. Not here. Not in America.
If you are disgusted by the actions of Antifa, and you should be, then you should be even more disgusted by the progressive leaders and journalists who are supporting them and continuing the attacks on Andy Ngo. They are repugnant.
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