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I was looking into something regarding the milkshake incident with Ngo for someone and came across so many different articles about the attack.
Most of which were at Andy's defense, and some even parroting the "I was almost killed" narrative. I'd be lying if I said it didn't feel at least a little bit dehumanizing.

When I was alone in Olympia and chased & attacked by a group of 30-50 proud boys, I was terrified. You can hear me screaming for dear life and see me struggling on the footage from one of their livestreams. I'm lucky that I got away, and the reason why I fought so hard to get away was because at that moment I knew there were two possible outcomes- one that included forced sexual violence by multiple fascists, or being killed. Their actions and the words of encouragement said as much. As I was pushed to the ground, getting my hair pulled, being groped and bear maced, I could hear other men in their group laughing hysterically and others shouting out other violent suggestions for the men who were assaulting me. I thank the universe every day that I was able to get away and for the bar staff who graciously hid me behind their bar and made sure to keep the proud boys out who were trying so hard to enter by force.

No one covered this. No one asked me about it. No one highlighted *that* violence against a journalist. I even find myself trying to avoid expressing how I was literally almost killed and the severity of the situation for fear as coming off too dramatic because I'm a woman. Meanwhile Andy calls a milkshake to the dome a murder attempt and people run with it. This isn't about wanting that attention, but to highlight the stark difference in treatment and coverage. The media will always take any chance they can get to demonize antifascists whilst simultaneously ignoring actual violence perpetuated by the right. I have no doubt that this was also largely ignored because I'm both a Syrian woman and unapologetically antifascist.