The New York Times published an article Sunday on how painful it was at Yale for Erika Christakis, whose harmless opinion on Halloween costumes triggered non-negotiable demands by enraged black students and their allies. But The Times buried the lede. Here is the actual nugget of fresh information in the article: “Yet the mood on campus may be shifting in her direction. Increasingly. College administrators are pushing back against student demands perceived as doctrinaire…
“Increasingly, college administrators are pushing back against student demands perceived as doctrinaire on matters involving cultural sensitivity, and are asking for a spirit of negotiation…”
That’s not a “shift against student protesters”. It’s appeasement of totalitarians. You obviously can’t negotiate with them. They make that perfectly clear.