Ken at Popehat put his finger on the critical issue:

- There are people who want emotional safety, in that they can choose to withdraw and not listen to others exercising their freedom of speech.

- There are other people who want emotional safety, by denying other people their rights.

Most of these overly sensitive college students are in the second category: They want to deny other people's rights, be it the free choice of halloween costume, or the right to freedom of association, or the right to free speech.

Reddit user AlwaysGetsDownvoted put it best when explaining this inexplicable behavior of SJWs:

Because when they were in high school or any public school there was zero tolerance. So offensive speech was punished. They have spent their life up until this point learning that offensive speech gets punished and is not allowed. This is another failure of public schools.

How does she get any studying done at all with her head so far up her butt. I'd like to send her a box of emotional Tampons. She could pack them up her ass until the pressure on her brain subsides.
Of course if she does ever get it pulled loose she'll be all brown-faced. Will she apologize, or celebrate the end of her white privilege?

"No Dear, Nana did not go to college because someone wore a sombrero and a mustache."

Her name is Jerelyn Luther. She's from Fairfield, Conn., where she sometimes works in her Mom's business, Creative Concepts, writing blogs for clients. This Yalie Senior has been inspired by her trip to Israel to want to visit at least 2/3s of the countries of the world - no doubt from the vantage point of four and five star hotels and similar safe places where she can sip bottled water and snack on non-GMO, carbon neutral, organic, transfat free, organic chips, harvested and prepared by content natives who remain in contact with Gaia by heating their homes and cooking with cow dung. (OK, I made up this last part. The rest is from her rapidly disappearing social media accounts. Funny, you'd think she'd be proud that her anti- privilege views had become so well known, and want all to appreciate from whence she'd come and all she had to overcome. But, as we say in the working world: "Reality can be a real bitch when the facts catch up with you."

I'm not sure I have anything interesting to add, but I found this statement to be the most shocking: "They have again and again shown that they are committed to an ideal of free speech, not to the Silliman community."

I've never seen a commitment to free speech being upheld as a fault before. Yes, I think the commitment to free speech supersedes their supposed commitment to the Silliman community. The community is changing every year, but the concept of free speech was here before they were born and, God willing, will be here after they die.

This is the best, Bob in Texas: "No Dear, Nana did not go to college because someone wore a sombrero and a mustache."

And great point, Patrick. It was amazing to me, too.

This shrieking woman in the video is black. Does she not understand how essential the First Amendment was to the civil rights movement? And is?

The new civil rights movement is about retaining our rights from people like her, who'd take them away to prevent hurt feelz.

". Does she not understand how essential the First Amendment was to the civil rights movement? And is?"

She doesn't even know what document the First Amendment is in.

The narcissistic bubble these people were raised in, doesn't let much education through.

"I only wish I had the time and resources to keep taking college classes today." Sounds good in theory, but when you see who is actually teaching, and what the classes are actually about (race! class! gender!), the appeal fades.

"...the aftermath of the email..."

Wow, good thing it wasn't a Facebook post!

Man, I am so glad I went to a cow college in a flyover state (North Dakota State University, Go Bison!). And 30 years ago, too. I would have gotten screwed up a lot more than I already was/am.

"But going to college is a privilege . . ."

Yep, it is a privilege.

And given that schools only have so many slots available for incoming students as I read about the spoiled brats and, especially, watching that video of the screaming idiot, makes me wonder about those who lost out on the opportunity of attending college by the schools admitting these brats instead?

BKMale,

Even at cow colleges you have these issues. Just not as bad. I went to OU in Oklahoma. One of the gender/race profs was famous for requiring all instances of Black to be capitalized no matter how it was used and all instances of white had to be lower case.

So 'I went to the store and saw a Black sticker.' is correct as is 'Mr. white went to the store.' At least according to him. All white students automatically lost a letter grade by virtue of being white in his class. Personally I preferred the Jewish prof who learned physics from the Nazis. He was hard but fair. The Nazis didn't award partial credit either but unlike them the prof did't kill anyone making less than an A.

"They have again and again shown that they are committed to an ideal of free speech, not to the Silliman community."

Obviously not a black kid raised in a small town where the "right" people decided what community values are, how they are applied, and to whom.

For that matter not a black kid raised in a "black" community either.

"Man, I am so glad I went to a cow college in a flyover state..."

Me too. I actually learned some stuff that was acutally, you know, true. Although I don't know if I would have the same experience today. The rot in academia is spreading everywhere.