“Far-left activists surrounded Powell s Books in Portland on Monday and demanded the store stop selling
Unmasked: Inside Antifa s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, a book about antifa written by Andy Ngo,”
Reason’s Robby Soave reports. “The protests forced the store to close early.”
There are few acts of censorship as overt as a mob deciding which books people should be allowed to read. Ladies and gentlemen, antifa. https://t.co/pNdQKIw7SY Robby Soave (@robbysoave) January 12, 2021
Ngo, the editor-at-large of
The Post Millennial, a Canadian conservative news site, has documented the activities of Antifa, a leftist group that advocates violence in the name of fighting fascism. The journalist was beaten by Antifa activists at a rally in 2019, leaving him with a serious brain injury.
12 Jan 2021
Antifa demonstrators forced a prominent Portland, Oregon, bookstore to close for the past two days. Antifa wants the establishment to not sell a forthcoming book by a local conservative journalist that details “Antifa’s radical plans to destroy democracy.”
Antifa protesters assembled outside Powell’s Books on Monday and demanded the store not sell a book by independent journalist Andy Ngo
Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, Reason.com reported. The demonstration forcing the store’s closure continued on Tuesday.
“We are your friendly neighborhood antifa” says the man who organized this protest. Dustin Ferreira, who has been arrested previously at riots.pic.twitter.com/Im6DJgeIlt
AP Photo/Noah Berger
We’ve been seeing a lot of censorship this week. Indeed, it’s more than a little troubling what’s happening.
But we’ve apparently now moved on to going after books part of this tragicomedy.
Antifa expert journalist Andy Ngo has a book coming out, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. Everyone should try to get a copy, you can get it now on preorder.
This is the book antifa is trying to get banned: https://t.co/WEc6SGDAaM
Naturally, Antifa folks didn’t like it. So they showed up at Powell’s Books in Portland to demand that they not sell Ngo’s book. They protested outside the store, forcing the store to close early.
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