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On August 29, 2018, Ngo wrote an op-ed titled "A Visit to Islamic England" for the ''Wall Street Journal''. In the article, Ngo concludes that Muslim communities constitute London's "failed multiculturalism". He also falsely connected [[alcohol-free zone]]s in parts of London to the Muslim-majority populations. Ngo was accused of [[Islamophobia]] and issued a correction to the article. He said he wrote the op-ed because in London in 2006, he "[had frozen], confused and intimidated by the faceless figures" of women wearing the [[niqab]] in London.<ref name="HerzogJournalist"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Read |first1=Max |title=The Rise of Busybody Journalism |url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/institutions-challenged-by-vloggers-and-busybody-journalism.html |website=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |accessdate=July 1, 2019 |language=en |date=August 31, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Malvern |first1=Jack |title=Drinking rules leave US writer dazed |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drinking-rules-leave-us-writer-dazed-kx6fl3vlv |website=[[The Times]] |accessdate=July 1, 2019 |language=en |date=September 1, 2018}}</ref>
On August 29, 2018, Ngo wrote an op-ed titled "A Visit to Islamic England" for the ''Wall Street Journal''. In the article, Ngo concludes that Muslim communities constitute London's "failed multiculturalism". He also falsely connected [[alcohol-free zone]]s in parts of London to the Muslim-majority populations. Ngo was accused of [[Islamophobia]] and issued a correction to the article. He said he wrote the op-ed because in London in 2006, he "[had frozen], confused and intimidated by the faceless figures" of women wearing the [[niqab]] in London.<ref name="HerzogJournalist"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Read |first1=Max |title=The Rise of Busybody Journalism |url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/institutions-challenged-by-vloggers-and-busybody-journalism.html |website=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |accessdate=July 1, 2019 |language=en |date=August 31, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Malvern |first1=Jack |title=Drinking rules leave US writer dazed |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drinking-rules-leave-us-writer-dazed-kx6fl3vlv |website=[[The Times]] |accessdate=July 1, 2019 |language=en |date=September 1, 2018}}</ref>

Following the indeterminate alleged hate crime of [[Jussie Smollett alleged assault|assault on Jussie Smollett]] in January 2019, Ngo published a series of tweets listing [[hate crime hoax]]es and was praised by conservatives.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mac Donald |first1=Heather |authorlink=Heather Mac Donald |title=The Frenzied Search for Racism |url=https://www.city-journal.org/jussie-smollett-bigotry |website=[[City Journal]] |accessdate=July 1, 2019 |language=en |date=February 18, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Barrett |first1=James |title=Twitter Explodes With ‘#HateHoax’ Posts Amid New Smollett Developments |url=https://www.dailywire.com/news/43637/twitter-explodes-hatehoax-posts-amid-new-smollett-james-barrett |website=[[The Daily Wire]] |accessdate=June 30, 2019 |language=en |date=February 18, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Neill |first1=Brendan |authorlink1=Brendan O'Neill (journalist) |title=Why it’s cool to be hated |url=https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/02/21/why-its-cool-to-be-hated/ |website=[[Spiked (magazine)|Spiked]] |accessdate=June 30, 2019 |language=en |date=February 21, 2019}}</ref> A week later, Ngo interviewed [[Wilfred Reilly]], a [[Kentucky State University|Kentucky State]] Associate Professor of Political Science who had written the book ''Hate Crime Hoax'', on the prominence of hate crime hoaxes among alleged [[Hate crime laws in the United States|hate crimes in the United States]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=Cathy |title=Hate Crime Hoaxes Are Real. But So Are Hate Crimes. |url=https://thebulwark.com/hate-crime-hoaxes-are-real-but-so-are-hate-crimes/ |website=The Bulwark |accessdate=June 30, 2019 |date=March 1, 2019}}</ref>


=== Confrontations with antifa protestors ===
=== Confrontations with antifa protestors ===

Revision as of 22:57, 1 July 2019

Andy Ngo
Born
Andy Cuong Ngo[1]

1986 or 1987 (age 37–38)[2]
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
NationalityAmerican[3]
OccupationWriter

Andy Cuong Ngo (born c. 1986) is a conservative American writer and editor for Quillette.[5][6][7][8]

Early life and education

Ngo was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.[2] His parents immigrated from Vietnam by boat in 1978.[2] In 2005, Ngo won a scholarship from the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[1] While attending UCLA, Ngo volunteered with AmeriCorps.[9] After college, Ngo came out as gay while seeing cousins in rural Vietnam.[9]

Around 2016, Ngo began graduate studies in political science at Portland State University, with research interests in secularism and political Islam.[2][10]

Career

Ngo is a writes for Quillette and the Wall Street Journal.[5][6][7] He is also an editor for Quillette.[11] In May 2017, Ngo began an outreach internship with the Center for Inquiry.[12]

According to the newspaper The Stranger, Ngo first got into the headlines when he was fired from the Portland State University student newspaper The Vanguard as the multimedia editor. This was in reaction to a Breitbart News report that Ngo had tweeted on his personal account a video clip of a Muslim student on an interfaith panel stating that in some Muslim countries, the punishment for apostasy is death or banishment. Colleen Leary, the editor-in-chief who fired Ngo, said that Ngo's summary of the Muslim student's remark "was a half-truth", and she disputed Ngo's claim that the dismissal was motivated by previous campus controversies over Ngo's work. A student who was on the panel disputed Leary's claim that Ngo had incorrectly paraphrased the Muslim student, but the Muslim student was quoted saying, "I thought I would feel proud after putting something like this [panel] together. Not feel like this." Ngo wrote an op-ed for National Review titled "Fired for Reporting the Truth". He also engaged in online discussions about the incident and on the pro-Trump subreddit /r/The_Donald called the firing part of a "trend towards self-censorship in the name of political correctness". According to Leary, the incident received little attention on campus.[3][2][13]

In June 2017, Ngo filmed a bomb disposal robot trampling flowers and candles at the memorial to victims of the 2017 Portland train attack, which had occurred two weeks earlier. The robot was going to a harmless canister that had resembled a bomb. A person was arrested for the incident.[14]

On August 29, 2018, Ngo wrote an op-ed titled "A Visit to Islamic England" for the Wall Street Journal. In the article, Ngo concludes that Muslim communities constitute London's "failed multiculturalism". He also falsely connected alcohol-free zones in parts of London to the Muslim-majority populations. Ngo was accused of Islamophobia and issued a correction to the article. He said he wrote the op-ed because in London in 2006, he "[had frozen], confused and intimidated by the faceless figures" of women wearing the niqab in London.[3][15][16]

Confrontations with antifa protestors

Ngo has investigated "illiberal" reactions to college freedoms.[17] In February 2018, Ngo and his student group Freethinkers of PSU invited on campus James Damore, the author of the Google diversity memo. According to Ngo, they were threatened with violence and were intimidated by antifa protestors. During the event, a portion of the audience walked out in protest against the speaker. Ngo filmed the disruption, but said "it [had not been] a plan to get national attention for [himself]".[18][19][17][13] In March 2018, Ngo filmed protests and a disruptive audience when feminist speaker Christina Hoff Sommers spoke at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland.[20][17]

In October 2018, Ngo filmed antifa protestors insulting an old woman in a wheelchair, as part of protesting a police officer's fatal shooting of Patrick Kimmons. The police did not make any arrests.[4] In November 2018, Ngo live streamed the antifeminist #HimToo Rally by a Patriot Prayer member in downtown Portland, and was sprayed with silly string by antifa protesters.[21][22][11] Ngo subsequently blamed Democratic officials who largely "share similar goals and sympathies" as antifa groups, for not preventing violence and "[viewing] it through a partisan lens".[21]

In May 2019, Ngo claimed to have been pepper-sprayed by an antifa protester amid clashes between antifa protestors and the far-right group Patriot Prayer in Portland.[23]

On June 29, 2019, while filming a counter protest to Proud Boys's march in Portland, Ngo was physically attacked by masked antifa protestors. The attackers spilled milkshakes on him, and punched him repeatedly in the head and face. Ngo said he was subsequently taken to hospital for a brain bleed.[24][25] Texas Senator Ted Cruz subsequently called for an investigation into Portland mayor Ted Wheeler for allowing this violence to occur.[26]

Religious and political views

Raised in a Buddhist family, Ngo began attending an evangelical Christian church in high school, before leaving religion in 2009.[12]

Ngo is right of center, according to journalist Cathy Young.[27] He has been described as a conservative by the magazine GQ,[20] although Ngo does not describe himself as such.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b http://web.archive.org/web/20100920110646/www.apiasf.org/recipient_list_2005.html
  2. ^ a b c d e f Herron, Elise (July 14, 2017). "A Dispute Over a Muslim Student's Remarks Costs a College Journalist His Job, And Brings National Furor to Portland State University". Willamette Week. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d Herzog, Katie (December 7, 2018). "Anti-Racist Protesters Harass Gay Asian-American Journalist". The Stranger. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  4. ^ a b Sang, Lucia Suarez (October 10, 2018). "Portland Antifa protesters caught on video bullying elderly motorist, woman in wheelchair". Fox News. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  5. ^ a b Williams, Kale (June 30, 2019). "Portland mayor, police come under fire after right-wing writer attacked at protest". oregonlive.com. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  6. ^ a b Quinn, Allison (June 30, 2019). "Conservative Writer Andy Ngo Attacked at Portland Rally". The Daily Beast. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  7. ^ a b Andy Campbell (July 1, 2019). "Far-Right Extremists Wanted Blood In Portland's Streets. Once Again, They Got It". HuffPost. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  8. ^ Norman, Greg (July 1, 2019). "Portland mayor should be investigated by feds over Antifa attack on conservative writer, Sen. Cruz says". Fox News. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  9. ^ a b Griffin, Anna (February 8, 2018). "For Immigrants' Son, Vietnam Trip Led To More Conservative Worldview". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  10. ^ Ngo, Andy (September 6, 2017). "The Challenge of Freethinking Among Nonbelievers". Center for Inquiry. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  11. ^ a b Prestigiacomo, Amanda (November 19, 2018). "WATCH: Female Antifa Punches, Spits On Conservative Demonstrators. It Doesn't End Well For Her". The Daily Wire. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Announcing our 2017 Outreach interns, Vicki Smith and Andy Ngo". Center for Inquiry. May 11, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  13. ^ a b Wilson, Jason (March 18, 2018). "How to troll the left: understanding the rightwing outrage machine". The Guardian. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  14. ^ Herron, Elise (June 9, 2017). "Bomb Scare on MAX Train Shuts Down Hollywood Transit Center on Two-Week Anniversary of Fatal Stabbings". Willamette Week. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  15. ^ Read, Max (August 31, 2018). "The Rise of Busybody Journalism". New York. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  16. ^ Malvern, Jack (September 1, 2018). "Drinking rules leave US writer dazed". The Times. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  17. ^ a b c Moore, Shasta Kearns (March 7, 2018). "Conservative feminist shouted down at Lewis & Clark". Portland Tribune. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  18. ^ Parke, Caleb (February 14, 2018). "Antifa targets 'Google memo' author James Damore's talk at Portland State". Fox News. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  19. ^ Shepherd, Katie (February 17, 2018). "No Violence, Brief Disruption as Fired Google Engineer Speaks at Portland State University". Willamette Week. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  20. ^ a b Uyehara, Mari (March 19, 2018). "The Free Speech Grifters". GQ. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  21. ^ a b Manchester, Julia (November 19, 2018). "Democratic politicians in 'difficult position' in handling antifa, says journalist". The Hill. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  22. ^ Sparling, Zane (November 18, 2018). "6 arrested, released during Saturday protest in Portland". Portland Tribune. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  23. ^ Wallace, Danielle (May 2, 2019). "Antifa, far-right groups clash outside Portland bar after 'peaceful' May Day protests". Fox News. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  24. ^ Dearden, Lizzie (June 30, 2019). "Antifa attack conservative blogger Andy Ngo amid violence at Portland Proud Boys protest". The Independent. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  25. ^ Sparling, Zane (June 30, 2019). "Police: 3 arrested, 8 need medical care after street brawl". Portland Tribune. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  26. ^ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ted-cruz-calls-for-legal-action-against-portland-mayor
  27. ^ Young, Cathy (April 19, 2019). "Rise of the Notre Dame Truthers". The Bulwark. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
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