12/10/2023 0 Comments Andy ngo book![]() Which brings yet more free publicity to the book. That offers further outrage-content opportunities, such as Fox News pointing out how silly it was for NBC to treat those two resignations as news ( that article describes Shrier’s book as “paint transgenderism as a mental illness,” which isn’t really accurate). In addition, many mainstream outlets are clearly and increasingly biased in how they report on these issues, including in their news coverage. So Ngo and Shrier both got extra interviews and coverage as a result of the deplatforming attempts. When these outlets can (pretty accurately!) talk about the books these social justice warriors don’t want you to read, it guarantees them a lot of attention and eyeballs. Plus, all this stuff is basically a wet dream for conservative media, or even for non-conservative media that is skeptical of social-justice overreach. That said, does any sane person anywhere believe that the deplatforming attempts didn’t help Ngo and Shrier sell truckloads of books? When you try to get a bookseller, whether a small or a big one, to stop carrying a book, it brings a lot of attention to that title! And naturally, even many otherwise disinterested onlookers are going to arch their eyebrows skeptically when they find out that someone is trying to pull a book off the (virtual or real) shelves of some seller. And of course we don’t have access to a parallel universe in which progressives’ critiques of these books were measured and didn’t involve attempts at deplatforming. Antifa and youth transition are both very hot, contentious topics, and books that take assertive stances on such topics tend to have a pretty good shot at selling well (to the extent anyone can predict book sales). Now, I do think both of these books were likely to sell well no matter what. This virtually guarantees both authors highly remunerative futures in book publishing, enhancing their ability to disseminate their ideas further. Ngo’s hit the New York Times bestseller list and was #1 on all of Amazon at one point during the most feverish early days of the controversy, and when I recently checked Shrier’s on Amazon, it was in the top 100, which, for a book that came out more than a year ago, suggests eye-popping sales. ![]() I’m kidding, of course: Both Shrier and Ngo have sold a zillion copies of their books. Similar deal with Unmasked: A bunch of theretofore neutral middle-American onlookers said “Whoa - if people are this mad about the book, I probably don’t want something like that in my household.” Ngo’s career, too, is now on life support. ![]() We all know what happened in both cases: The impact of being delisted from, combined with the taint of the employee uprising, dropped Irreversible Damage to the bottom of the charts, where it has languished ever since. Demonstrators returned to the store again Tuesday, and a spokesperson confirmed to KOIN 6 News that they again closed early.” The store closed early citing safety concerns. Back when the book came out, “an angry crowd assembled outside the store’s Burnside location in Portland’s Pearl District, attaching signs denouncing Ngo to the windows. In that case, the protests centered around a branch of Powell’s, the legendary bookstore in Portland, the city where Ngo and much of his reporting have traditionally been based. (Someone did tweet at me the other day saying they saw a physical copy in a Target, so who knows.)Īnother book unpopular among progressives is Andy Ngo’s “Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.” I haven’t read that one, but you can probably garner from the title why they’re mad. There was also a campaign to get Target to stop carrying the title, and online, at least, if you search for “Irreversible Damage” on, all you’ll get for relevant matches is Irreversible Damage: The Katie Suarez Social Justice Series, a book which I am going to guess doesn’t contain a huge amount about alleged social contagion among teenage girls. Two employees out of more than 1.3 million have quit over this issue, so of course that’s a news story. That controversy centers on Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, a book that some activists, including employees within Amazon, have been trying to get the book juggernaut to stop carrying entirely. I think there are something like 19 errors in the middle two articles from SBM’s four-part series. ![]() I didn’t send it out as an email because I felt self-conscious about drowning you guys in thousands more words on a fairly niche subject, but yesterday I posted another long critique of Science-Based Medicine’s remarkably shoddy coverage of the youth gender medicine debate.
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