"I remembered Ngo being discussed in some political thread. And instead of dragging it up I decided to paste it here.  People claiming he is a journalist, instead he was a right-wing coward looking only to stir shit up."

being right wing is not exclusive to being a journalist... you do understand that right?

and the issue people had in my thread for the most part was the disgusting dismissal of the violence he experienced as not being a problem

"He should be in jail for his right wing propaganda and hate speech"

elaborate?

they banked on antifa attacking them, they at no point from what I heard had the intention of attacking

does this not indicate that antifa is a more significant problem?

so why up until very recently has the media been ignoring their violence?

CNN and MSNBC for YEARS now have been ignoring how violent antifa has been, to tilt perception of this issue in one direction, what is your opinion on that?

"There is a fine line between exercising one's freedom of speech (which is something I unfashionably very much believe in) and knowingly aiding the commission of physical violence toward political aims"

from the video it appears that they banked on antifa attacking them, not on initiating an attack themselves

Hmm. Funny how the people who despise fascists act a lot like fascists.

Agreed. It seems that the Left is moving so far left that anyone who is Center-Left is viewed as a "far right" neo-nazi. Either you come with them all the way on their decent into communism or you don't come at all. 

I was watching Dave Chapelle's newest comedy special. There were two spots that I found really interesting. One he said he's going to do impressions and the second one he just said, "In 10, 15, 20 years, it doesn't matter when, but I'll find something you did wrong and I'm going to have you ruined or cancelled." He asked the audience who that was and you could hear a bunch of them calling out Trump. Chappelle said, "That's you all." Then he went on to describe the Kevin Hart/Oscars situation and later touched on me too.

The second one was during  a Q&A after his special was over. One guy asked him who he thought was going to win the election in 2020. He said that Trump is a much better chance than a lot of people on his side think, as I'm sure he would be considered center left. He also said that the way his side is talking right now he doesn't think they're going to win.

Unfortunately for many on the left, they can't see any of this because the only thing it seems they can think of is "orange man bad."

That's more a cultural difference. In most countries outside of the US, freedom of speech doesn't protect hate speech. Rather, hate speech is considered a criminal or at least a civil offense. Hence why for non-Americans seeing a guy like him instigating and/or provoking violence and verbally harassing other people not getting punished for those deeds is a bit mind boggling.

That's not saying that antifa was right to clobber him, far from it. They should get jailed for the violence they did, and they will. It's just that in most countries, he would have been jailed or at least fined for his part and deeds along with the perpetrators of the physical violence.

Also, like others pointed out, he had information about upcoming or planned violence and didn't publish them or went with them to the police. That is a criminal offense, and not just outside of the US this time around.

Only recently heard about this clown and I must admit, I am not at all surprised this weasel did nothing. Were I a believer in karma I would chalk it up to that, but this is just some good fortune for the world.

Lock him up.

did nothing to stop what?

did you actually watch the video and understand what was said?

or did you just jump to a conclusion because of what you were told to think?

"In most countries outside of the US, freedom of speech doesn't protect hate speech."

those countries simply don't have freedom of speech

they do not have it ensured by law like the united states does, be good to mention that

" he had information about upcoming or planned violence and didn't publish them or went with them to the police. "

there was no violence planned in the video, they planned to walk near antifa expecting antifa to attack them

do you understand that there is a difference or not?

Funny how the rightwing nutjobs always want to hide behind their "freedoms". Well, I wouldn't expect them to understand how a society works, if they did they wouldn't call for absolute freedom.

Freedom of one individual will always infringe on another individual's freedom, so there is literally no way to have absolute freedom. That's why laws exist. That's why laws have to exist or else we would still be in the age of slavery with an all-you-can-rape-buffet for any man who's strong enough. Calling the freedom in the US absolute is nothing but absolutely laughable. How can they have freedom of speech when it infringes on people's freedom to not be killed by right wing maniacs? Speech is powerful and hate speech will inevitably lead to violence. Violence that the US should be very familiar to. I have yet to hear from an antifa extremist to commit mass murder in a nazi concert, or any concert for that matter. Yet mass murder committed by the right seems to flourish.

I won't stand for equating deliberately inciting violence against oneself with the mass murder of innocents. And yes, I will always prefer an asshole who wants to be beaten up being beaten up by the people who he wants to be beaten up by over innocents being mowed down indiscriminately. His intent was to be hurt, so instead of going after the antifa, we should be thanking them for so nicely fulfilling this guy's kink. The left doesn't kink-shame after all.