So many people in positions of relative power were unable to summon a sentence like “I dislike Ngo’s work but physical assaults on journalists, and/or people filming in public, are never acceptable”! That’s crazy — it’s the equivalent of being unable to clear a two-inch hurdle.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) June 30, 2019
Here’s how a big-name communications staffer at the Human Rights Campaign reacted to a gay journalist getting attacked by a group of masked vigilantes during a public event. There’s video of a masked vigilante punching him in the head. pic.twitter.com/mHKWawl8wq
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) June 30, 2019
Singal is a contributing writer for New York Magazine.