As a story emerges about a Stanford University pooh bah advising a fraternity last year to take down an American flag for fear of offending people, please allow a brief lamentation that the fraternity’s patriotic reply appears to be an ever-rarer response from today’s generation of younger adults.
As Paul Bedard reported in these pages last week, “Younger Americans are turning on the country and forgetting its ideals, with nearly half believing that it isn’t ‘great’ and many eyeing the U.S. flag as ‘a sign of intolerance and hatred,’ according to a new and disturbing survey.”
Stanford told a frat their American flag was intimidating, the frat replaced it with a bigger flag https://t.co/2Q6x0VI9fH
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 4, 2018
It is heartening, then, to read that when the Stanford administrator dared “imply that the American flag, as a symbol, could be intimidating, aggressive or alienating,” the frat he was advising responded by “instead choosing to replace it with an even bigger one.”
Good job, boys. ‘Merica. https://t.co/tnxE8SHoNq
— Robert J. O'Neill (@mchooyah) December 4, 2018
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