CNN – Opinion, by James A. Gagliano — July 2, 2019
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CNN) Nothing quite exemplifies “tolerance” like the video of masked young people hurling objects and screeching profanities at a young, conservative journalist.
The viral images are sickening. Andy Ngo, a photojournalist and editor at the online magazine Quillette, who has made a cottage industry of exposing instances of manufactured hate crimes, was viciously assaulted while covering an Antifa rally held as a counter-protest to a rally of right-wing groups, including the Proud Boys, in Portland, Oregon. “Antifa” derives from “anti-fascist,” and is associated with aggressive, hard-left activism. The video shows masked protesters circling Ngo, punching and hitting him and dousing him with a “milkshake,” then following him as he flees. One hurls something at his back.
Too often, we are seeing these days an abrogation of civil decency, a proliferation of anarchy and lawlessness. Regular, and potentially lethal, violence by masked-protester assailants is too often excused and condoned by Twitter-warriors. This must not be our new normal.
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