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I want to clarify comments I made this weekend about the assault on Andy Ngo. Although I stated that violence is completely wrong and would never claim it was deserved, I failed to unequivocally condemn what took place and make clear that no person deserves what happened to him.
The only fact necessary to be recognized is that he was attacked by thugs because of his political views.
In our country, to say nothing of elsewhere in the world, that should always be wrong, and it was wrong of me to contextualize his assault, no matter how I feel about his record of diminishing and excusing discrimination and violence against transgender people.
I sincerely apologize to Andy Ngo, and I am sorry at how poorly my comments reflected on my colleagues at the Human Rights Campaign, who resolutely stand against all violence.
