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Andy Ngo
BornAndy Cuong Ngo
1986 or 1987 (age 37–38)
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
OccupationJournalist
EmployerQuillette

Andy Cuong Ngo (born c. 1986; Template:Lang-vi) is an American journalist best known for covering street protests in Portland, Oregon. He has written for The Wall Street Journal and is an editor for Quillette.

Early life and education

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

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

Career

Ngo writes for Quillette. He is also an editor for Quillette. In May 2017, Ngo began an outreach internship with the Center for Inquiry.

The Vanguard

Ngo first drew national attention in 2017 when he was fired from the Portland State University student newspaper The Vanguard. His dismissal as multimedia editor 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. While not reporting for The Vanguard at the time, his tweet paraphrased the Muslim student's remark in a way the newspaper's student editor considered to be "a half-truth," and inciting a reaction. The editor also disputed Ngo's claim that the dismissal was motivated by previous campus controversies over Ngo's work. Ngo would later write an op-ed for the 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 he called the firing part of a "trend towards self-censorship in the name of political correctness". According to the editor of The Vanguard, the incident ended up receiving little attention on campus. 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 together. Not feel like this."

Later work

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.

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 ", confused and intimidated by the faceless figures" of women wearing the niqab in London.

Confrontations with antifa

Ngo has investigated what he calls "illiberal" reactions to college freedoms. 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 a plan to get national attention for ". In March 2018, Ngo filmed protests and a disruptive audience when feminist critic Christina Hoff Sommers spoke at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland.

In October 2018, Ngo filmed antifa protestors insulting an old woman in a wheelchair, as part of protesting a fatal police shooting. The police did not make any arrests. 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. Ngo subsequently blamed Democratic officials who largely "share similar goals and sympathies" as antifa groups, for not preventing violence and " it through a partisan lens".

In May 2019, Ngo said he was pepper-sprayed by an antifa protester amid clashes between antifa protestors and the far-right group Patriot Prayer in Portland.

On June 29, 2019, while filming a counter protest to Proud Boys's march in Portland, Ngo was physically assaulted by masked antifa protestors, who punched him repeatedly in the head and face, and threw milkshakes on him. Portland Police wrote on Twitter that some of the milkshakes thrown during the protest contained quick-drying cement. Ngo's attorney said he was subsequently taken to hospital for a brain bleed. Texas Senator Ted Cruz called on law enforcement to investigate the incident. Democratic Party presidential candidate Andrew Yang wished Ngo a speedy recovery.

Robby Soave, who wrote about the incident for Reason, reported on Twitter that a doctored screenshot of his article was in circulation.

Religious and political views

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

Ngo is right of center, according to journalist Cathy Young. He has been widely described as a conservative, although Ngo does not describe himself as such.

See also

References

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  26. Zielinski, Alex (July 1, 2019). "Portland Police Offer No Proof That Protesters Had Milkshakes with "Quick-Dry Cement"". Portland Mercury. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  27. Goforth, Claire (July 1, 2019). "Portland milkshake dealer denies adding concrete to drinks to harm Proud Boys". The Daily Dot. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
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  29. Dearden, Lizzie (June 30, 2019). "Antifa attack conservative blogger Andy Ngo amid violence at Portland Proud Boys protest". The Independent. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
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  32. Soave, Robby (June 29, 2019). "Antifa Mob Viciously Assaults Journalist Andy Ngo at Portland Rally". Reason.com. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
  33. @robbysoave (July 2, 2019). "Trolls have been tweeting this doctored, fake screenshot of an article I supposedly wrote. My actual article made no such claims, and included a vastly different headline. If this is the evolved form of fake news, it's mildly terrifying. I have asked @Twitter to take action" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  34. Young, Cathy (April 19, 2019). "Rise of the Notre Dame Truthers". The Bulwark. Retrieved June 30, 2019.

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