I think "examples in the media are not representative" is exactly it. I regularly hang out with grad students at UC Berkeley, which I suppose is the perceived c

I think "examples in the media are not representative" is exactly it. I regularly hang out with grad students at UC Berkeley, which I suppose is the perceived center of American liberalism. As far as I can tell, nobody's apoplectic about that kind of stuff here. Yeah, sometimes people get angry when the university appropriates valuable funding to invite unpopular, rabble-rousing demagogues to speak against the wishes of the student body — but that level of public protest has always been present, here and on other campuses across the nation. And in any case, there's plenty of students grumbling about this kind of behavior whenever it happens. Somehow, the media spins "a small group of people wants a place to occasionally discuss very sensitive issues" to "SAFE SPACES HAVE TAKEN OVER AMERICAN CAMPUSES". I dunno, maybe there are one or two campuses that are especially bad in this regard. But I can't help but roll my eyes at this kind of conservative pearl-clutching.