https://americanmind.org/features/inclus...niversity/

Thesis is that the internet has destroyed the university-and is working on society as a whole.

"...Four years after I graduated, I watched with horror as a young woman shrieked at Yale professor Nicholas Christakis. His offense: offering to engage in civil discourse to defend his wife’s position that Yale students were mature enough to pick Halloween costumes without guidance from a DEI bureaucrat. The shrieking girl was not the only one profoundly offended by this. Thousands of Yalies soon marched in solidarity with her.

My first thought was: “I did not go to college with kids like this.” To understand what had happened, I asked one of my wisest friends to explain it to me. His explanation: “They don’t seem like the same kind of people we went to Yale with because they aren’t the same type of people we went to Yale with. These are quite a different type of human being altogether. We are witnessing the coming of age of the first generation of children that socialized in high school with Facebook on their iPhones.”

Yale’s first African-American Dean of Students, Jonathan Holloway, came to a similar conclusion. After listening for hours to student grievances, he gave an interview to the New Yorker wherein he concluded that the root of the problem was not really “about race.” Rather:

This is not just a black problem or a brown problem or a women’s problem or whatever. We are seeing a generation of students, and I don’t know why, who do seem less resilient than in the past. I think part of it is that things aren’t mediated like they have been in the past. You don’t have the luxury of sitting down and pondering what somebody just said, because you’re too busy putting it into a Tweet and saying, “This is an outrage.” There’s no mediation of ideas.

Watch the video of the incident closely, and you’ll find young man in the background who affirms the girl’s shrieks by shouting “Retweet!” I didn’t know any girls like her, or guys like him, at Yale. I didn’t know that many Yalies who could be bothered to march in solidarity for anything, much less something so risibly infantile...."