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Review: Andy Ngo’s new book still pretends antifa’s the real enemy
latimes.com ^ | February 8, 2021 | ALEXANDER NAZARYAN

Posted on 02/08/2021 1:48:44 PM PST by lowbridge

There is an alternate universe out there in which we never have to ponder, let alone read, “Unmasked,” provocateur Andy Ngo’s supremely dishonest new book on the left-wing anti-fascist movement known as antifa. In that other world far, far away, Marjorie Taylor Greene remains a nutty CrossFit enthusiast from Georgia, not a member of Congress, and we know nothing of her musings on Jewish space lasers, the execution of Democrats or “false flag” school shootings.

If you find that universe, please send directions.

Coming as it does in this weary universe of ours, a month after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in search of elected officials to kidnap or kill, “Unmasked” has to be taken seriously.

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“Unmasked” is a culmination of Ngo’s single-minded quest to depict an assortment of leftists as a unified vanguard whose mission is to “destroy the nation-state, America in particular.” Only in its final pages does he explain the roots of that fixation, his parents’ immigration from war torn Vietnam. He calls this book “a letter of gratitude to the nation that welcomed” them. As an immigrant from a communist country, I understand the sentiment. As a journalist, however, I must point out that he is churning out the very kind propaganda that keeps authoritarians in power.

Distortions and untruths hover like flies around every shred of confirmable fact. The same section of “Unmasked” that ends with Ngo’s paean to the United States portrays a mid-November “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington as a “peaceful and celebratory” affair, with no mention of the Proud Boys amassed there. The counter-protesters, meanwhile, are a “marauding gang.”

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alexandernazaryan; andyngo; antifa
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To: falcon99

The left ALSO PROVES that their VOTERS are MENTALLY ILL!!!


41 posted on 02/08/2021 4:05:50 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: lowbridge

Got the book today.


42 posted on 02/08/2021 4:07:51 PM PST by Fzob
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To: lowbridge

“pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol...”

The LA Times are masters of deception and don’t even know it. Thankfully, no one is buying their nonsense and the paper is a boring rag.

Antifa goons killed an innocent lady at the Capital while Pro Trump rally members held another peaceful rally.


43 posted on 02/08/2021 4:28:14 PM PST by Falconspeed
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To: blueplum

Exactly this case almost sounds way to easy


44 posted on 02/08/2021 4:32:39 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: lowbridge

LA Times - can’t even be used as toilet paper.


45 posted on 02/08/2021 4:38:49 PM PST by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: lowbridge

You are not seeing what you are seeing. These are peaceful protests.


46 posted on 02/08/2021 4:51:00 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: madprof98
I have yet to get the copy of Ngo’s book I ordered from Amazon.

Amazon may be the problem. Here is the book at Barnes and Noble:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unmasked-andy-ngo/1136471345

47 posted on 02/08/2021 4:53:07 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: lowbridge

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48 posted on 02/08/2021 5:15:00 PM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: lowbridge

And where were you when Andy was in the trenches reporting on the Antifa riots last summer, Alexander?


49 posted on 02/08/2021 5:40:55 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: Dalberg-Acton
I watched that (1984) last night instead of the Super Bowel.
I saw a lot of parallels with our times.


Of all the prophecies in the book 1984, the one I find the most disturbing to witness coming true is the Two Minutes of Hate. Only, in 2021, it isn't only two minutes - through social media it is 24/7. The sheep-like masses are presented with the target and told to hate them, and so they froth and scream and go about "literally shaking" whenever they hear even the name of the target, until they are given a new target. Then they forget the previous target even existed.
50 posted on 02/08/2021 5:48:39 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: lowbridge

Leftist democrats lie about everything, folks. They really are the enemy.


51 posted on 02/08/2021 6:05:16 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: lowbridge
Here are youtube clips from the Joe Rogan interview with Andy Ngo:

What Led to Antifa Assaulting Andy Ngo
How Antifa Organizes
Are We on the Verge of Civil Unrest?
52 posted on 02/08/2021 6:14:23 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

Absolutely.


53 posted on 02/08/2021 6:20:39 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: madprof98

“I have yet to get the copy of Ngo’s book I ordered from Amazon. Claim it is “backordered” with no ship date available. Did the same with Abigail Shrier’s book on transgender madness.”

Amazon is not the only online book seller. Besides, shouldn’t conservatives be boycotting them? They’ll hang us with rope bought from the proceedings of our purchases.


54 posted on 02/08/2021 6:58:59 PM PST by dsc (Evil doesn’t have a day job.)
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To: lowbridge
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTk2SoWZB3vJ4Mo8Akw7qCgL56q8sKHt79lxxsGbfU1EXjRUBuRbqNSIvpATyLN

He looks exactly as you'd picture him/it.

55 posted on 02/08/2021 11:51:36 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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