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Gomoku

 


Gomoku, also called Five in a Row, is an abstract Japanese strategy board game that is traditionally played with black and white pieces. The object of this game is to get five pieces in a row. Five in a Row is a winner. Last week five in a row was what ignited an explosion from the left. Here, however, five in a row was a big loser. Let me explain:

I am talking about the ludicrous incident involving a high school student in D.C. For those of you who are not aware of what happened, let me summarize what the left spewed out on social media: 

To paraphrase, “A white high school student, while wearing a M.A.G.A. hat, accosted a Native American Vietnam War veteran in Washington, D.C. The student, who was in Washington to attend an anti-abortion rally, attended Covington Catholic H.S. in Covington, Kentucky.”
Because the story had five different “offensive”, “this is war” words, the left ran with it. Yes, the student was wearing a M.A.G.A. hat (1), and he was from a Catholic H.S. (2). He is white (3), and he was face to face with a Native American man (4), and even worse the student was in Washington attending an anti-abortion march(5)! 

The problem with this slanted narrative is that it was wrong on the key detail, which was brought out when the full video was seen. In actuality the Native American came up to, and got in the face of the high school student –  not the other way around, and to top it off, the “war veteran” spent four years in the military as a refrigerator repairman, was never in Vietnam, never left the U.S., and was discharged as a private. Four years, and still a private! . . . that’s pretty hard to do!

The consequences of this “fake news” were  threats to the student and his family, and the temporary closing of Covington Catholic H.S. because of safety concerns. Thus far the only good thing is a libel suit brought by the student and his family. Although I am usually not a fan of lawsuits, I hope that family from Kentucky take the spreaders of this fake news to the cleaners, or perhaps, I should say “to the bank!”

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