Portland shooting: Is Antifa descending into gang violence?
Antifa, the far-left pukes who've turned politics into a thug act, especially in Portland, Oregon, is getting itself into some kind of death spiral.
Here's a sketchy initial news report about a killing among this bunch from Oregon Public Broadcasting:
Portland Police say a prominent anti-fascist activist was killed early Saturday outside Cider Riot, a Northeast Portland club and a popular gathering spot for left-wing protestors.Sean D. Kealiher, 23, was hit by an SUV a little after midnight. He had been at the club earlier in the evening. Friends drove him to the hospital, where he died.Someone fired shots at the SUV after it hit Kealiher, and the vehicle crashed into the headquarters of the Oregon Democratic Party.The hit and run is being investigated as a possible homicide
Here's another report from Oregon Live.
Based on the initial reports, it looks like someone ran the 23 year old down with a vehicle in front of a far-left drinking establishment and then tried to make a run for it. Then someone with a gun in that city where concealed carry is outlawed, shot at the fleeing vehicle, prompting it to crash into the local headquarters of the Democratic Party. That's a lot of leftism in a small space. The news reports don't say what happened to the driver, but based on there being no arrests, and no reported beatdowns so far either, he seems to have gotten away. How he got away from someone shooting a gun at him raises the question of whether he, too, had a gun. How'd a guy like that get away?
Both the public radio station and Oregon Live point a finger to a right-wing group called Patriot Prayer, which had come over to the leftist turf and rumbled with Antifa last May 1.
Since I know nothing about this group, and since they fought Antifa earlier, it's a reasonable possibility it could have been one of them, or some other right-wing extremists on a revenge mission and the cops investigating this are probably considering it.
But if so, they would be a clever bunch, and people who engage in street fighting aren't always this way. Their Facebook site is loaded with compassion comments for the victim of the violence and consolations to the young man's mother who, assuming it's really her, and that's a big if, frequents that board. The group, and it doesn't look like a big one, also seems to be focused on some sort of event in Pennsylvania, and another one in Vancouver these days. They did march through Portland on Oct. 6. Pinning the blame on this group tthus far seems to be a rush to judgment.
At least as likely, is the possibility of internecine warfare amongst the Antifas themselves. Kealiher, the victim, was identified as an 'anarchist' which not the same as a communist, or other hard leftist, and leftist groups are well known for their enforcement of political correctness, purges, and "struggle sessions" amongst themselves. They are actually famous for their internecine internal warfare. Could it have been that? Seems like another possibility.
Meanwhile, a vehicular hit is a typical gang activity and yes, normally targeted at a leader, which Kealiher was, so a sort of picture is emerging there on that front, too. Kealiher had a stage name, "Armenio" which gang members have, too. And they all like to wear masks.
It just raises the question as to whether Antifa has entered a new sort of stage in its development, pure gangsterism coming out of its nasty politics, and is now emerging as a full blown criminal gang or mafia, fighting amongst its own if not right-wing gangs for supreme power.
We have seen cases where drug dealers have moved from mere crime to a will to political power, as in the case of Pablo Escobar in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Colombia. We have also seen cases where the opposite has happened, in Colombia again, where communists, such as FARC, descended from a communist terrorist will to power into pure drug-gang activity.
It happens as secretive groups develop their schtick. It leaves open the possibility that Antifa is following a sort of FARC-style gang thuggery pattern, and if so, it's hard to not think drug sales might be involved, as was the case with FARC.
What's Portland's drug situation? Pretty bad. The Department of Justice says the black and Hispanics gangs control the wholesale market, but the whites (and Antifa is pretty white) control mid-level and retail pot sales. There's no evidence at this point Antifa is trafficking drugs, but they do seem to be acting suspiciously like a gang, so maybe that's something to watch for.
It's a tenuous speculation to be sure, but it'shard to think all of this nasty stuff that's coming up with Antifa's name on it is all just random.
By Its Own Definition Antifa is Fascist
ALL
REVOLUTIONS START OUT MESSY AND UNFOCUSED. THE BEST IS YET TO COME!
The
Party of Antifa Fascists?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/10/20/the-party-of-antifa-fascists-n2530342?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky2
Antifa At Large in Portland
Audio
Transcript
By Its Own Definition Antifa is Fascist
Antifa’s founding can be traced back to 2007 in Portland and the Rose
City Antifa group. Prior to 2016, the group’s activities were limited to
harassing neo-Nazi gatherings and doxing white supremacists. But that changed
in 2016 after the election of Donald Trump, when the group declared a national emergency.
Rose
City Antifa has a website full of information
about the group. In their FAQ (frequently asked questions) section, they admit
that fascism can be difficult to define as all fascist movements do not have
the same features. They utilize a definition of fascism that is based on a cluster of traits, so
that a specific definition is never mentioned. While a movement may not have
every one of these traits, if there is a preponderance (a specific number is
never defined but we can believe that it’s two or more) then Antifa will
classify that movement or group as fascist. By these criteria, Antifa clearly
is fascist.
- anti-Enlightenment
- anti-reason
- the creation of a vilified other
- reliance on violence or threats
of violence to impose views on others
- anti-liberal
- anti-conservative, and
- portraying the current social
and political situation as one of dire decay brought about by decadence
and corruption.
Anti-Enlightenment and Anti-Reason: The core philosophy
of the Enlightenment and the concept of reason can be traced to the Socratic Method of debate, where
one side presents a case, a second side presents a counter argument, and the
debate back and forth about the idea in front of a group where ideas are freely
spoken and judged for their merit.
Antifa
claims to be against racism and hate speech. In fact, most people are against
racism and hate speech and when they hear it, they freely make up their mind
and assume that speaker is an idiot. And in a free society, people can say and
do stupid things freely without being stopped forcefully unless they’re
inciting violence.
Antifa
says that all fascists should be prevented from speaking. They are against the concept of free
speech and have no problem violating the First Amendment
rights of others. They are therefore anti-Enlightenment and anti-reason.
The Creation of the Vilified Other: By having a broad
list of traits that can be used to label someone as a fascist and then shut them out of society Antifa itself is
creating a vilified other.
Reliance on Violence or Threats of Violence to Impose Views on
Others: Showing up to demonstrations and events in a ski mask with bats
and mace to club those you define as
“fascist” fits this criterion. Likewise, the assault on journalist Andy Ngo was meant to serve
as a message to anyone who professed a negative view of the group.
Anti-Liberal: The United States of America is a liberal
democracy that Antifa rejects because they claim, without proof, that the
liberal democratically elected leaders “have more in common with fascism than they do with us” So, the elected
leaders and voters must therefore be part of the vilified others. They
also criticize the liberals that
defend free speech.
Anti-Conservative: They have showed up to harass and attack participants
at conservative gatherings that
were not-alt right and did not have any ties to White Nationalism on the basis
that conservatives are oppressive fascists.
Portraying the Current Social and Political Situation as One of
Dire Decay Brought About by Decadence and Corruption: “Likewise, we reject the “right” of the government and police
– who have more in common with fascists than they do with us – to decide for us
when fascists have crossed the line by merely expressing themselves into posing
an immediate threat.”
By
rejecting the democratically elected law makers and law enforcers as corrupted fascists they are portraying
the current situation as decayed by corruption where the only hope for healing
is for them to take matters into their own hands.
By
using Antifa’s own definition that one can be a
fascist by having traits found in Fascist government, Antifa is fascist by
their own logic. It’s clear that they believe the current liberal democracy
government of the country has failed and what the people need are strong
incorruptible leaders to take the reins and do what is needed to fix it in their
image.
And
while Antifa does not have a leader or spokesperson whose identity is publicly
known, there is someone is running their official website and planning their
protests. They might be keeping their identity secret for now out of fear of
law enforcement, but they are likely out there.
ALL
REVOLUTIONS START OUT MESSY AND UNFOCUSED. THE BEST IS YET TO COME!
The
Party of Antifa Fascists?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/10/20/the-party-of-antifa-fascists-n2530342?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky2
Who are
the “Antifa” mobs? What are they doing to our country? How long will we
tolerate them?
The Brett
Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were their latest excuse for tantrums and intolerance.
Dismissing fairness, propriety and due process, they screamed that mere
allegations of misconduct were enough to bar him from the Supreme Court,
despite no corroborating evidence or witnesses.
Vicious
harassment of senators and White House officials in restaurants, streets,
grocery stores, and Senate offices and elevators was matched by ambush tactics
and despicable behavior by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats. If Justice
Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings were “an electronic lynching,” those hearings were an electronic
assault on a respected jurist, his wife and young daughters.
When
Kavanaugh fought back, the same Senators and their media friends said he
“lacked the proper temperament” to be on the Court. (Apparently, he should have
just tried to enjoy the experience.)
The fact
is, Democrats and their allies had said in lockstep and from the outset that
they intended to keep any Trump nominee off our highest
court. The Women’s March mistakenly released a statement saying it opposed the
“nomination of XX” to the Court. (They forgot to fill
in the blank.) They view the Court as their supreme state and national
legislature: it’s far easier to get 5 votes than 5 million or 50 million.
In
reality, this ongoing attempted rule by mob (with Portland, Oregon a prime example) goes back to
the 2016 elections that put Donald Trump in the White House. The mobs weren’t
just disappointed that Hillary Clinton had not won. They were enraged. And they’ve remained so ever
since.
In fact,
their furor goes back even further – to mounds of excrement they left behind in
North Dakota, for instance, where they tried to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, by burning and bombing bridges,
threatening local residents and killing cattle. One “peaceful protester” tried
to shoot a deputy sheriff.
In
another example, they enlisted state attorneys general, universities, wealthy
leftwing foundations and private law firms (on a contingency fee basis) to
bring RICO and other actions against scientists and think
tanks that voice skepticism about “cataclysmic manmade climate change.” On
college campuses they have banned, disinvited, mobbed, harassed or just plain
screamed over 300 conservative
speakers into
silence. Being a Republican or wearing a Trump MAGA hat can get you beaten, or
worse.
They
forget President Obama’s dictum: “Elections have consequences.” One is the
President’s right to nominate Federal judges. But from their perspective,
“consequences” must never apply when they lose – and the Electoral College must be abolished when it works
as our Founding Fathers intended: to keep populous urban areas from dominating
presidential elections and imposing a tyranny of the majority. (The fact that
85% of all US counties voted for Donald Trump illustrates this principle in
action.)
In most
of these cases, “they” are the Antifa mobs. Antifa being short for
“anti-fascist.” Don’t be conned.
The
Antifa mobs are fascists! And they have become the
ski-masked thug wing of the Democratic Party.
They (and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kyrsten Sinema, Andrew Gillum, Bernie Sanders and
other favored candidates) certainly espouse socialism as
their vehicle for wealth redistribution. However, in almost every other
respect, their philosophies and actions reflect fascism, which
is generally defined as:
A
political system in which an authoritarian government does not own businesses
and industries, but strictly regulates and controls their actions, output and
rights – while forcibly controlling and suppressing citizens and their thought
and speech via stringent laws, intimidation and even violence.
Sadly,
the Democratic Party is slipping further into these tendencies, becoming ever
more closely aligned with these radicals. It relies on Antifa thugs to “rally
the base,” intimidate and abuse Republican voters and
candidates, and get Democrat (and “undocumented”) voters to the polls. Like too
many in the “mainstream” news media, Democrats refuse to condemn the mob
behavior – and say it’s wrong to even call them
mobs. They’re just
concerned citizens, peaceably assembling and seeking redress of their
grievances. Right. (Hint: You don’t like being called fascist mobs? Stop
behaving like fascist mobs.)
“You
cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand
for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton said recently. So instead of civil
debates we’re to have civil war over whose vision and agenda will rule? Is
there something wrong, antiquated or “threatening” about debating issues?
Former
Attorney General Eric Holder said, when Republicans “go low” with their
rhetoric, “we kick them.” Rep. Maxine Waters (R-CA) incites
Antifa mobs by ranting, “If you see anybody from the Trump Administration in a
restaurant, in a department store, tell them they’re not welcome anymore,
anywhere.”
Now on
top of the speech codes, trigger warnings, boycotts, censorship, groupthink and
identity politics, Google, Facebook and Twitter control and restrict access to
conservative views; crowd funding sites prevent conservative groups from
raising money; and the Obama IRS prevented Tea Party groups from getting the
tax status needed to operate. When all that fails, we’re supposed to tolerate
mobs and riots.
On
campuses, LGBTQ diversity is virtuous. Diversity of viewpoints or political
affiliation is intolerable. Some say Republicans want to control what you do in
your bedroom. But Democrats want to control everything you do anywhere outside
your bedroom. And Antifa mobs will keep you quiet and in line.
Antifa
thugs fire-bombed a North Carolina Republican office and trashed another one in
New York City, where they left a note that said, “This is just the beginning.”Others knocked a 71-year-old female
congressional staffer unconscious! It even reached the point where a rabid
Bernie Sanders supporter tried to gun down Republican
legislatorsand
staffers who were practicing for a charity baseball event.
Indeed,
death on a large scale, to serve state or other “higher interests,” is another
aspect of fascism. We see that with millions of people dying every year in
Africa and Asia, because pressure groups deny them access to energy, insect control, water
purification, agricultural and other modern technologies,
in the name of protecting the environment from dangerous climate change,
chemicals and biotechnology.
There are
crazy ironies, too. Google helps the
Chinese Communist
Government prevent its citizens from accessing “forbidden” knowledge and ideas
– but then claims helping the US Defense Department with Cloud computing or
artificial intelligence surveillance would “violate its principles.”
Around
many neighborhoods, signs proclaim “Hate has no home here,” in multiple
languages, with an American flag heart logo reminiscent of the Obama campaign
logo – in liberals’ yards. The signs are part of a project that “promotes just
and inclusive communities.” Trump supporters need not apply.
Democrats
appear to be depending on all of this to counter a possible “red wave” – and
regain control of the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate. If
they succeed even with just the House, Democrat congressional committees will
investigate, interrogate and try to impeach Trump, Kavanaugh and other
officials. They will impede and obstruct everything the Trump Administration
tries to do.
They’ll
also try to abolish ICE, block the Wall, pack the Supreme Court, take our guns,
bash Israel – and replace the fossil fuels that provide 80% of our energy with
“100% renewable energy” that is so expensive and unreliable
it will bring our industries, economy and nation to its knees, while blanketing
rural and habitat land, damaging
people’s health and property rights, and butchering birds and bats by the millions.
Our
rebounding energy, employment, economy, markets and living standards would get
rolled back.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further.
Some say
the Antifa-Schumer-Pelosi-Clinton-Holder-Waters strategy will backfire. I hope
that happens, because it would be disastrous if these people run Congress,
America and our lives. But I won’t bank on it.
If you’re
worried too (and you should be), get inspired and involved. Above all, VOTE!
Vote to preserve our democratic Republic, our freedoms, our booming economy, reliable and affordable energy for all Americans – and
equal justice for all, based on the presumption of innocence until proven
guilty.
Paul
Driessen writes books and articles on energy, environmental, human rights and
political issues.
AUDIO
Antifa At Large in Portland
October
17, 2018
Public safety
Cities
Politics and law
Andy Ngo joins City Journal editor Brian Anderson to discuss the
recent outbreak of violence in Portland between far-left activists, commonly
referred to as Antifa, and right-wing groups that gathered to oppose them.
Pacific
Northwest cities like Portland and Seattle have long been
hotbeds for extreme left-wing political movements. Recently, video emerged
of black-clad Antifa activists directing midday traffic and harassing drivers
in Portland’s business district. A week later, street brawls broke
out after an Oregon-based right-wing group called Patriot
Prayer held a march in downtown Portland, purportedly in protest of
the mayor’s oversight of the police and leniency with far-left activists.
Political
violence may be spreading to other cities: this past weekend, Antifa
brawled with members of the Proud Boys in New York.
Andy Ngo
is an editor at Quillette and a writer whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, The American Spectator, and City Journal.
Audio
Transcript
Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks Podcast. This
is your host, Brian Anderson, editor of City Journal. Joining me on the show
today is Andy Ngo. Andy is an editor at Quillette, where he writes about free
expression, the culture wars, and much, much more. He’s written for City Journal, too and the Wall Street Journal. Andy is a resident of
Portland where he is a graduate student at Portland State. He’s been on the
ground to witness growing protests in the city over the last two weeks.
Left-wing activists, generally ranging themselves under the heading, Antifa,
have unleashed chaos on a couple occasions in the city. During one recent
protest, viral videos captured black-clad Antifa protestors in the downtown
area directing traffic and harassing drivers, all while officers and the city’s
police department looked the other way. Then this past weekend, right-wing
groups opposed to Antifa arrived in the city, resulting in a street brawl
between the two groups with no life-threatening injuries, thankfully. Urban
unrest is nothing new to City Journal, of course, and we
should mention that New York also saw its own outbreak of disturbing political
violence over this past weekend. But to find out more about what’s going on in
Portland, we’ll talk to Andy after this.
Hello
again everyone, this is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. On the line we have Andy Ngo. Andy is an editor at Quillette and a resident of Portland, Oregon. Andy thanks for
joining us.
Andy Ngo: It's my pleasure to be with you.
Brian Anderson: To everyone outside the northwest, cities
like Portland and Seattle appeared to have an active and increasingly violent
left-wing street movement. Can you talk a little bit about your city and maybe
introduce yourself to our listeners? How long have you lived there and what
sets Portland apart or what sets the political culture of Portland apart from
some other cities?
Andy Ngo: You know I have to refer to some of the amazing work
that your colleague, Heather Mac Donald, has done on the victim ideology. I say
that Portland is a city where victimhood ideology is mainstreamed and is
normalized, and it flows through the ethos and hearts and minds of the denizens
here. So I've lived in Portland most of my life and it's a progressive bubble.
There are several factors that kind of make it a perfect storm for these
radical, street, far-left violence and then the clashes that they have with the
hard right groups. And so on one element you have the political which is that
it's a really progressive bubble in the state of Oregon—
Brian Anderson: I assume the city council is dominated by
leftists.
Andy Ngo: Yes I would say that's a fair characterization. And
then so there's one factor there and then the other dimension to it is
demography as well, which I don't hear people talk about as much. So Portland
is a majority white city and I think I've heard it dubbed as one of America's
whitest cities for the size that it is. So with these two factors together, it
creates this element of this extreme white guilt, I would say. I've witnessed
it a lot and it makes the city vulnerable to radical leftist movements that try
to exploit white guilt for their own political gain and I think that's my
analysis for why we've seen the leadership of the city kind of take a hands-off
approach when it comes to political violence from the far left. Because there's
probably certain, perhaps, sympathies as well as a critical mass of
constituents who are supportive of these groups.
Brian Anderson: Now, for people outside of Portland reading
about these outbreaks on Drudge or somewhere else it's a little difficult
perhaps for them to understand what's going on. Perhaps you could give a brief
timeline of the most recent protests and what has set them off. I think there
was a police shooting behind one of the protesters, correct?
Andy Ngo: Yes, so the viral video footage from Portland where you
see people dressed in black confronting drivers and then one going as far—a
group of them going as far as beating an elderly man's car with weapons and
pushing him when he got out. That viral footage was recorded just about a week
and a half ago, and that stemmed from a response to a police-involved shooting
and killing of a young black man, one with a very extensive criminal past, and
he is suspected of shooting and injuring two people before the police responded
to the incident. So that video footage that a lot of people have seen and has
been covered in particularly conservative media, was a protest/rally that was
organized by a Black Lives Matter-type of group locally, and then they also
work—they have a lot of allies who are part of Antifa. And so whenever these
far left groups organize events, Antifa comes up to, in their own words they
say that they act as defenders in case white supremacists or whatever attacked
them. I think these are unfounded concerns but that's their reason for why they
show up with a, sort of, a militia-like element in addition to just a regular
political protest.
Brian Anderson: And what about this brawl—this street
brawl—that had occurred more recently?
Andy Ngo: Yes, so there's been a lot of focus on brawls that have
happened particularly in the past year. The timeline, you have to go back a
little bit further—not too far back. Just really things reached a new low, I
would say, after the election of Donald Trump. We had three days of mass
protests in the city, and then on the third day it became a riot. That was when
people really got to see how radical Antifa’s movement was because these people
wearing masks, dressed in black, and organized, went in certain business
districts in downtown and were destroying business—breaking windows, smashing
up property, setting fires on the street—I’ve lived here most of my life and so
seeing that with my own eyes at the time, it felt like I was in a war zone. I
couldn't believe that I was in the city in the Pacific Northwest in America.
And so ever since then, every couple of months, every few months these groups,
these so-called social justice groups, will organize protests for the cause of
the day. So most recently it had to do with the shooting of Patrick Kimmons.
But it can be any number of issues the far-left have taken on. And so this past
weekend was unfortunately another street brawl with more violence and I got
caught up in that. I went there to document it. I got pepper-sprayed. So there
was a last-minute march/rally that was organized by a right-wing group named
Patriot Prayer. Now this small group is headed by a man named Joey Gibson, and
he's become a pretty infamous person locally in Portland, because he's one of
the few people willing to organize pro-Trump rallies in downtown Portland and
patriotic events. And so he was doing an event where a rally—a protest—where he
was—they were—protesting the inaction of the mayor and then Antifa came to
confront them, and then there was a brawl.
Brian Anderson: I see. But nobody was seriously hurt in
this?
Andy Ngo: Oh people were seriously hurt. I saw people's faces
were bashed onto the ground, and if people are aware of some of the things that
Antifa does, they will bring weapons, particularly more like melee type
weapons, and then of course they bring pepper spray, mace, bear spray, all
that. So they—Antifa comes looking for a fight and I would say the Patriot
Prayer group, the hard right group—they go, they defend themselves and they
defend themselves to win so they're quite brutal when they respond as well.
Brian Anderson: This is kind of madness in a prosperous
successful city like Portland—madness anywhere. What has been the response by
local government officials—the mayor, police, city council—to these incidents?
Andy Ngo: The mayor faced a lot of criticism after the footage
that I helped publicize went viral, and he held a presser several days ago,
saying that he was appalled at the treatment of the elderly man whose car was
attacked, but that he supported the decision for the police not to intervene.
So he was trying to play both sides but they’re, I believe, they're
contradictory positions to have simultaneously. And the mayor just yesterday
circulated—his office circulated a draft proposal to try to restrict
such—proposing that in the future certain groups would be restricted where and
when they can protest. I don't think that would be held up to scrutiny in a
court of law but the mayor's response just with his own history, typically
mayor Ted Wheeler, Democratic mayor is, instead of stopping the violence his
response tends to be trying to limit more speech. So for example last year Patriot
Prayer had planned to organize an event that was very heavily publicized
because it came on the heels by coincidence with the shooting—excuse me—a
stabbing attack that killed two people. It was, they were not related to
Patriot Prayer a lot, but this particular person had gone to a Patriot Prayer
event before and so the mayor, because the Patriot Prayer had a permit to hold
this rally on federal property in downtown Portland, the mayor was calling for
the federal government to revoke Patriot Prayer’s permit and even he was
rebuked by ACLU of Oregon, which is certainly no fan or friend of Patriot
Prayer. But that couples with his, the draft proposal that was released
yesterday. It seems like his response is to limit speech rather than to limit
violence.
Brian Anderson: —empower the police to, you know, ensure
order and a peaceful right to protest. The last question Andy, what are you
working on now? I believe you have a podcast. I'd like to hear a bit about that
and what it's called.
Andy Ngo: So my writing and journalism focuses on two tracks. I
write a lot about what I see are the excesses of social justice, and being in
Portland, I would say I am at the epicenter and I get to see this firsthand. So
that's what I've discussed with you today. My other track of work is about
writing on issues related to political Islam in immigration and integration,
and so this past summer I spent many weeks traveling across Europe visiting
what areas that are high crime, so vulnerable areas—sometimes the media will
tell them no-go zones, although I would say that's a misnomer. But that's my
other area of interest is in—
Brian Anderson: As in the banlieue of outside Paris, that
kind of—
Andy Ngo: That is one example and I did spend time in in France,
yes. So if you follow me on my social media you'll see that I tackle these two
topics kind of, and they don't always intersect but sometimes they kind of do.
I also run a podcast called Things You Should Ngo. It's a play on my
surname Ngo, N-G-O, and on that I do long-form interviews with people that are
in the so-called IDW, intellectual dark web, or tangential to it. And so I
interview academics, intellectuals, writers, and the topics we talk about are
ones that most people are polarized on it, on one view or another. So I try to
dive into it in a way that's non polemical that gets to—where the conversation
can keep going in an uninterrupted way. So topics we cover are related to hate
speech versus free speech and political Islam, the alt-right, white
nationalism—all these very contentious topics and so I've launched now five
episodes. I would welcome the listeners to please check that out. If they like
the work I do and they would like to see more content from me.
Brian Anderson: And where is the—excuse me Andy—where is
the podcast available, is it on iTunes or—
Andy Ngo: Currently it is available on YouTube, if you just
search my name, Andy Ngo, you’ll see it come up in the top hits.
Brian Anderson: Great, don't forget to check out Andy Ngo’s
work at Quillette and his podcast and
you can also follow him on twitter @mrandyngo and that's N-G-O. We'd also love
to hear your comments about today's episode on Twitter, @CityJournal. Lastly,
if you like our show and want to hear more, please leave ratings and reviews on
iTunes. Thanks for listening and thanks, Andy, again for joining us.
Andy Ngo: My pleasure.
Brian Anderson: Thanks for joining us for the weekly 10
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