UNC Frat Dudes Who Protected U.S. Flag From Pro-Hamas Mob Will Speak at RNC
“A group of students and fraternity brothers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill patriotically protected an American flag that had been disturbed by demonstrators during an anti-Israel protest on their campus.”
As Legal Insurrection reported at the time, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the scene of two iconic moments at the height of the pro-Hamas campus protests and occupations.
The first one was interim Chancellor Lee Roberts personally walking to the campus flag pole and re-raising the American flag after the Palestinian one hoisted earlier by pro-Hamas agitators had been taken down by police:
HERO: Interim UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts personally restored the American flag at UNC:
(Credit: @dailytarheel) https://t.co/nB0oVSjycx pic.twitter.com/lohD0VCckc
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 30, 2024
Afterward, Roberts differentiated himself from other higher education administrators at woke schools like Columbia by giving a defining statement, declaring, “That flag will stay there as long as I am chancellor.”
The second iconic moment came courtesy of a group of guys from several of the UNC’s fraternities. In photos and videos that went viral, the frat dudes were seen holding up the American flag so it didn’t touch the ground after the campus demonstrators attempted to take it down:
Brendan Rosenblum, a junior and Jewish student at UNC-Chapel Hill, had water bottles thrown at him as he stood in the middle of the quad by with an Israeli flag while protesters tried to replace an American flag with a Palestinian one. Classes today have just been cancelled. pic.twitter.com/hUkPTXtLxj
— Bryan Anderson (@BryanRAnderson) April 30, 2024
(Thread) Today was a sad yet empowering day at Chapel Hill. When I walked to class, I saw the Palestinian flag raised on our quad flag pole, and was immediately upset at the act that these “protestors” had made. I cannot say I am fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict pic.twitter.com/tZrZEOSu8a
— Guillermo Estrada (@estradguillermo) April 30, 2024
In the aftermath, they were catapulted into the national spotlight, with some of the guys doing media interviews explaining their actions and being hailed as heroes.
For instance, here’s what political science student Dan Stompel told Fox News:
“I was like, ‘I’d die for this flag.’ And everybody was like, ‘Yeah.’ If they got any closer [than] that we’re going to start throwing hands. We’re not going anywhere, I don’t care. They’re going to have to tear me off this flag over my dead body,” Stompel said.
[…]
“Don’t bend the knee to these people. They want to take over. They want to just destroy what this country stands for, bring their own twisted ideology into every orifice of this country. And don’t let them do that,” Stompel told Fox News Digital.
In addition to that, a “Throw ’em a Rager” fundraiser was launched in response to their stand for the American flag, raising over $515,000 to help “throw these frats the party they deserve.” Flagstock 2024, as the invite-only event is called, will be held on Sept. 2nd (Labor Day) at UNC-CH and will reportedly include some big names like country star John Rich.
As it turns out, the frat guys’ flag-protecting bonafides won’t be the only thing to celebrate at Flagstock. Some of them will also be speaking at the Republican National Convention next week:
After receiving national attention for holding up an American flag during a campus protest, UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity brothers are now slated to speak at the Republican National Convention next week, according to an announcement from former President Donald Trump’s campaign.
The group will be among two dozen individuals or groups described as “everyday Americans” to speak at the four-day event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Trump campaign described the speakers as people “who have faced immense hardship and are worse off under the Biden-Harris administration.”
Here’s the official announcement from the campaign:
“A group of students and fraternity brothers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill patriotically protected an American flag that had been disturbed by demonstrators during an anti-Israel protest on their campus. The students gained national attention as videos of the protest showed them standing strong to protect the American flag, even as protestors antagonized them.”
Inbox: Trump campaign announces UNC frat guys will be featured speakers/attendees at the RNC next week pic.twitter.com/uPwTlJUVcv
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) July 12, 2024
In response to the Trump campaign’s announcement, reporter Marc Caputo also noted that Trump had considered visiting the UNC-CH campus after hearing about what the frat guys had done, but it didn’t pan out:
After the UNC frat boys defended the flag, Trump folks considered making an on-campus stop as an attaboy, but it was logistically impossible
On Sept 2, there’s a Flagstock “Pints for Patriots” event after $515k was raised for the students. Wouldn’t be shocked if Trump showed https://t.co/4ufd9QFXRO
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) July 12, 2024
I wouldn’t be shocked if he showed up at the event because that would so be up Trump’s alley.
In the meantime, hats off to the frat bros for the RNC speaking invite. I’m sure they’ll have some shall we say interesting stories to tell in the aftermath.
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The hit movie of 2025?
Revenge Of The Norms
the irony of this taking place in ultra-liberal Chapel Hill is delicious!
excellent
next move
attack /defend against blmplo
A play to the moron crowd.
Are you saying they’re taking a page out of your (very short) playbook?
Ooh perhaps you can volunteer to read from Derrida at the convention and show those rubes what a real “intellectual” looks like.
Pretentious jackass.
You’re in luck. Derrida has written on Islam:
“What appears to me unacceptable in the “strategy” (in terms of weapons, practices, ideology, rhetoric, discourse, and so on) of the “bin Laden effect” is not only the cruelty, the disregard for human life, the disrespect for the law, for women, the use of what is worst in technocapitalist modernity for the purposes of religious fanaticism. No, it is, above all, the fact that such actions and such discourse _open onto no future and, in my view, have no future_. If we are to put any faith in the perfectibility of public space and of the world juridico-political scene, of the “world” itself, then there is, it seems to me, _nothing good_ to be hoped for from that quarter. What is being proposed, at least implicitly, is that all captialist and modern technoscientific forces be put in the service of an interpretation, itself dogmatic, of the Islamic revelation of the One. Nothing of what has been so laboriously secularized in even the nontheological form of sovereignty (…), none of this seems to have any place whatsoever in the discourse “bin Laden.” That is why, in this unleashing of violence without name, if I had to take one of the two sides and choose in a binary situation, well I would. Despite my very strong reservations about the American, indeed European, political posture, about the “international terrorist” coalition, despite all the de facto betrayals, all the failures to live up to democracy, international law, and the very international institutions that the states of this “coalition” themselves founded and supported up to a certain point, I would take the side of the camp that, in principle, by right of law, leaves a perspective open to perfectibility in the name of the “political,” democracy, international law, international institutions, and so forth. Even if this “in the name of” is still merely an assertion and a purely verbal committment. Even in its most cynical mode, such an assertion still lets resonate within it an invincible promise. I don’t hear any such promise coming from “bin Laden,” at least not one in this world.”
“Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides” _Philosophy in a Time of Terror_ p.113
Holy wall of copied and pasted text, Batman!
The only “morons” in this country are those whose perfidy, fecklessness, stupidity and moral bankruptcy animate/motivate their enabling of Islamofascism and Muslim supremacism.
You’d prefer to have conservatives do what the vile Dhimmi-crats are doing — obsequiously and shamefully pander to goose-stepping, Jew-hating, Christian-hating, genocidal Islamofascists and Muslim supremacists in Michigan, Minnesota, and, elsewhere in the U.S. That’s allegedly laudable conduct, in your twisted moral universe.
If being a proud American, a tax payer, a voter, a man who has spent his life trying to see the good in people until they show me they don’t deserve it; if being a proud retiree of our nation’s military, the son, grandson, great grandson, nephew, cousin, and son-in-law of other proud veterans; if being a forgiven Believer in the Most High God and Creator of the universe makes me in your view a moron – then yes, call me a moron.
Not that anyone cares about your cheap, gratuitous insults.
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If respect for the symbols of our Nation and thus regard for the Nation itself, our Constitution and the very laws whose existence precludes many of us from more vigorous pushback against the leftists is moronic….OK, for argument sake lets say that’s correct but I doubt you have the courage to live this. No more calling the cops. No more civil actions. No restraining orders. No whining when a group of ‘morons’ shows up and takes your argument to its logical conclusion; anarchy.
The anarchy that gets experienced will be a far cry from the Hollywood version, so these folks should tread lightly.