![]() ![]() Ngo was assaulted, mugged, and sent to the hospital with a brain injury.įor a while, and this is still true, Ngo was deemed a villain in anarchist circles, especially in Portland, his hometown. These far-left rioters are quite up-front about their endorsement of violence and looting.Īnyway, the Proud Boys event was disrupted by counter-protestors (Antifa) who came with bats, crowbars, and other melee weapons. ![]() While people are free to make their arguments about what happened to the Proud Boys, it’s still striking how Antifa hasn’t gotten the same treatment on social media. The right-wing organization, founded by Gavin McInnes, has been de-platformed for allegedly engaging in political violence. On June 29, 2019, Andy Ngo was at an event in Portland, Oregon, organized by the Proud Boys. Ngo had a sobering experience with Antifa himself, as well. Or even a Star Wars movie.Īnarchism snips your attachment to reality, to be more precise. ![]() It almost feels like you’re in a Final Fantasy game. See, anarchism has its way of making its adherents believe they’re valorous rebels in a conflict against an evil empire. I shut myself in my dorm room and never went out. That year was the most isolated I’ve ever been in my life. This, and arguing with strangers, was how I spent my days for over a year. That was me changing the world, one Facebook post at a time. I also denounced capitalism as an evil system of unfair distribution. On Facebook I posted, to my friends’ annoyance, treatises describing anarchism as ideal. I first met Zack in high school when both of our schools were in a national academic bowl tournament. He had a rich vocabulary and could articulate well-informed ideas and opinions, seemingly without effort. Now, this friend (we’ll call him Zack) came across as supremely intelligent to everyone he met. I was exposed to the radical politics of anarchist theory through a friend. It was back in 2012-2013 during my 2nd and 3rd year in college. Ngo knows this all too well, and so do I.įirst, let me inform you guys of my own experience with Antifa. ![]() It also believes in violence to silence opponents. Biden’s dismissal of Antifa is as naive as saying Osama bin Laden posed no threat to world peace in the 1990s.Īntifa believes that violence is necessary to bring down the current system. It functions in the same sense that al-Qaeda jihadists believed in the use of violence and bloodshed to prop up a global caliphate. It’s “just as idea” as President Biden has said.īut Antifa functions as an ideology, whether they want to admit it or not. We need fresh, new living ideas to guide the living. Ideologies are principles written by the dead. Ngo’s book is an act of bravery, here’s why.Īntifa claims that their philosophy isn’t a fixed ideology with strict rules. The reason I bring you all here today is to tell you that Mr. I’ve already picked apart this naive philosophy on another post. These are dynamics that exist across species.īut enough of that. Further, in the absence of a government, other hierarchies will simply emerge because most people are natural followers. Of course, one of the many problems with all this is people, generally speaking, can’t be trusted to behave. “ From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” so said the Great Karl Marx (who was sadly off the mark). ![]()
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