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I have no idea what the book is about, but judging by the title (Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy) I can only say that this mob behav

• bjowen 5y ago
  The author is a bit of a serial provocateur, and is one of the exacerbating forces of the twitter discourse - which you might also be able to distil from the book’s title. He has dined out on making a boogeyman out of student protests, BLM and “antifa” [0] among far-right media outlets and more credulous mainstream ones. Regardless of your personal political orientation, if you don’t like the way Twitter has changed the way people talk about politics, it’s probably fair to assume you’re not thrilled about reportage that portrays its subjects as radical democracy-destroyers, rather than people with agency and motivations and grievances that may well be legitimate. And whatever your feelings on _that_, the people who are the subjects of that kind of reportage tend to find it a bit of an irritation. Not wishing to detract from the awfulness of this fellow’s treatment, he’s strayed into the crossfire of culture war BS, that he probably had no idea was there, in a way that appears to stake out a position. But if he’d done the same with some half-baked Pizza- or Russiagate exposé, you might expect something similar, just from different accounts. [0] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-ngo-right-wing-troll-antifa-877914/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-n...