Thread by @ARCCollective

As I see that Andy Ngo is still trending I thought I would share my brief, though enlightening, encounter with the man.

People who have followed this account will be well aware that I was doxxed in early January 2020. 1/24

After I was doxxed, I posted a final entry to the blog before turning it fully over to @VestsCanada. 2/24

While I received an outpouring of support and thanks from people who had followed the blog for years, there were a small number of individuals who attacked me.

Among those was Andy Ngo. 3/24

First as @nolifeneet noted at the time I did not write the article in question (though I wish I had and I stand behind it all). But second and most importantly he is grossly mischaracterizing what was written. 4/24

The article in question can be found at anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2020/01/ubc-ca…. I'm guessing this is the offending portion of it that so concerned Mr. Ngo, however it doesn't take long to see that he is very much taking things out of context. 5/24

He double-downed in a Tweet that amassed 2000 likes and nearly 1000 retweets in which he referred to me as an "extremist antifa doxxer" who "released the address and photo of opponents' home" and defended the use of violence (see the previous tweet in the thread). 6/24

It shouldn't be a surprise to learn that none of this is true. Using screenshots of publicly posted comments does not constitute doxxing. I was also scrupulous in not providing details about where people lived. I never posted an address or a phone number or photo of a home. 7/24

In short, and much like his current faux British accent, Ngo lied. 8/24

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1290324550576570383?s=20

At the time I was sort of distracted, but when things calmed down I began to wonder why Ngo, who was much more prominent than I was, would deign to comment on lil'ol me. 9/24

I've come to realize though that even a minor player such as myself can be used when trying to establish a grand narrative through taking comments out of context and outright lying to a credulous fan base already inclined to believe that narrative. 10/24

Ngo has a long history of this sort of grift. In 2017 he was fired from Portland State University's student newspaper, The Vanguard for purposely taking a comment out of context to put someone in a negative light. 11/24

psuvanguard.com/in-response-to…

Since then he has become an apologist for the far-right which include such groups as the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer. 12/24

https://twitter.com/a_picazo/status/1327809139603611648?s=20

https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1164961745099788288?s=20

13/24

He has also continued to write stories that attack the political left as violent and the right as blameless victims often using carefully edited videos to make the case. Unsurprisingly these video clips are often taken wildly out of context as well. 14/24

https://twitter.com/janetbruce/status/1286677601117970433?s=20

Ngo's unethical journalistic project continued yesterday in Washington DC when he post an edited clip of a Proud Boy being knocked out. 15/24

What he purposely cuts from the video was what led to the incident and that the Proud Boy, far from being blameless, started the encounter. 16/24

dailydot.com/debug/andy-ngo…

However Ngo's clipped video had its intended effect. 17/24

https://twitter.com/AlliRothberg/status/1327854821592981504?s=20

https://twitter.com/WordswithSteph/status/1327901857692360707?s=20

18/24

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1328084426425651200?s=20

19/24

Ngo's "journalism" isn't simply unethical, though it certainly is that as well.

https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1327964313500454919?s=20

20/24

There is also a very specific purpose.

Agitate the right to commit acts of violence and to expose detractors of the right to real danger. 21/24

https://twitter.com/area51elvis/status/1327875686405705728?s=20

In some small way this happened to me as a number of the threats I received after being doxxed referenced Ngo's histrionic tweet about me as a justification for harassing me.

Others face the same backlash when they speak out against Ngo. 22/24

https://twitter.com/nickmartin/status/1326917405529026561?s=20

Sadly, it doesn't matter how many times Ngo is caught doing this. His followers, living in an echo chamber, are already inclined to believe what he writes even when presented with irrefutable evidence that he isn't being truthful. 23/24

Those who expose him are the "fake news."

And he will continue as more people are hurt because that is a feature and bot a bug in his "journalism." 24/24

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