Hint, hint journos: this is why people don't fucking believe you
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A fellow journalist falsely claimed Andy Ngo "participated in white supremacist instigated violence." Pressed, he retreated to "Andy Ngo has participated in white supremacist rallies where violence has taken place." Where'd this bottom out? Andy had **reported on** such a rally.pic.twitter.com/biPk4n3902
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Like, this is bad. Really, really bad. And then you remember that the entire point of the lie was to smear a person who was violently attacked and subsequently hospitalized.
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I don't believe anyone goes into journalism to be a cog in a narrative machine that discredits wrongthink journalists when they're attacked by mobs. These people need to sort themselves before they destroy their profession in their increasingly desperate attempts to be relevant
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By the way, if you don't want people to think white supremacists are a bogeyman you just dreamed up — a dangerous conclusion, IMO — maybe DON'T rough up a gay Asian journalist and shout "got the nazi!" To say you look willfully incompetent would be the understatement of the year
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Whenever you read "fourth estate" substitute "first estate" and clarity will increase.
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We can go deeper...He's obviously being backed by a white supremacist NGO, look at his name for crying out loud! I'ts an anagram for Aryan NGO when you turn the d into an r and add an a, which is the most supremacist letter of all of course. He's totally sold out to Big Whitey
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The last tweet is the most amazing one. He can fully admit that conservatives are ok with a gay Asian guy, but that doesn't even make him consider that they might not be Nazis
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With that logic he must be an antifa!
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