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“The CrimethInc manual on breaking windows goes on to explain that taxpaying businesses are fair game to target because that ends up hurting police, who rely on public funding. The intellectualizing of their arguments tries to mask the ruthlessness of their worldview. They don’t care whom they harm, what livelihoods they destroy, as long as it furthers their political agenda.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“American media constantly warn us about the rise of right-wing violence and the lethal threat posed by white supremacy. No honest person denies there are indeed violent far-right militants in the United States, as documented by federal law enforcement, but their numbers and influence are grossly exaggerated by biased media. Antifa receive a tiny fraction of the news coverage of the far right, and yet I would argue their increasingly violent tactics and ideology pose just as much, if not more, of a threat to the future of American liberal democracy.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“The word “violence” is being systematically remade to conform to their worldview. Looting and arson aren’t violence, they argue. And yet physical violence directed at their opponents is also not violence but rather “self-defense.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“Both the extreme left and right seek to undermine liberal democracy and the rule of law, whether through the use of violence or other means. They have differing political visions and goals, but both would result in the destruction of the liberties we value.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“At the moment, the threat of the far right is understood by the American public and actively countered by government, academia, media, and civil society. No comparable resolve or mass organization exists to counter the far left. Why? One explanation is the cultural dominance of the left. The political homogeneity in popular culture, academe, and urban centers of influence (e.g., New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, etc.) has produced a populace with severe blind spots.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“The BLM-antifa narrative that police are murdering black and brown people in epidemic proportions needs to be thoroughly debunked. It is not supported by the evidence or data. This should be the job of the media, but it has been they who fan the flames of racial division through one-sided wall-to-wall coverage. The unending distraction from real issues that can otherwise be addressed through evidence-based policy making has us chasing shadows.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“Colloquially, critical theory is sometimes referred to as “cultural Marxism,” an application of Marxist theory to groups of people based on identity rather than class.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“Since 2016, we have been told over and over by biased media and antifa apologists that antifa is not an organization. We’ve been lied to.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“violence is a feature, not a bug, of antifa’s ideology. In fact, they venerate violence. Since 2015, untold numbers of victims, including other journalists, have been doxed, beaten, robbed, or killed by antifa militants. Few of them receive media attention—or justice.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“What unites this group of leftists is its opposition to so-called fascism, though importantly, what is defined as fascism is left wide open. This is intentional as it allows antifa to justify all manner of violence and extremism in the name of opposing “fascism.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“It was later revealed that Floyd’s blood contained a fatal level of fentanyl.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“Antifa know the effect that smashed windows, breached businesses, and fires have on crowd mentality. Each act serves as blood in the water. It can turn protesters into rioters. That’s why antifa teach this in their literature that is disseminated widely online and in real life.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“That’s the genius of antifa’s riot strategy: they only have to light the match.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“While the Antifascist Action and all opposing groups were banned after Hitler became head of state, the antifa communist ideology never went away. From the ashes of WWII, it was absorbed and institutionalized in the official state ideology of what would become the German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany. From 1949 to 1990, East Germany existed as a communist state carved out of the Weimar Republic by the Soviet Union, one of WWII’s victorious Allied leaders. For over forty years, the extremely repressive conditions in East Germany exemplified what “antifa” state-building actually looks like.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“Some victims are valued more in the eyes of the American media than others.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“Indeed, if the riots of 2020 prove anything, it’s that a sizable portion of Democratic politicians, intellectuals, academics, and journalists find riots and looting justifiable if committed in the name of “racial justice.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“I’m angry at them, but I still see their humanity and don’t wish them ill. I actually feel sympathy for those pulled and brainwashed into antifa’s twisted ideology. They are often exploited and used by a movement that explicitly rejects the value of individuals in favor of the cause.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“In short, critical theorists develop ways to “criticize” perceived structures and systems of oppression in order to bring about radical change. It offers a heuristic for understanding all human interaction through power dynamics between groups. When applied to race, concepts like white privilege, whiteness, and intersectionality purport to explain why there are disparities in outcomes among racial groups.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“Despite claiming to be a refuge for blacks from white racists, CHAZ ended up with a 100 percent black victim shooting rate. To date, only one suspect was named in all”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“As useful idiots for antifa, the press predictably published reports that helped provoke more hatred for law enforcement in Portland.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“antifa is a violent extremist movement that attacks all kinds of targets under the guise of “anti-fascism.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

“antifa are an ideology and movement of radical pan-leftist politics whose adherents are mainly militant anarchist communists or collectivist anarchists. A smaller fraction of them are socialists who organize through political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America and others. Labels aside, their defining characteristics are a militant opposition to free markets and the desire to destroy the United States and its institutions, culture, and history.”
― Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy