As much as I appreciate the self-implosion of liberal college campi, the long term problem of all this PC on steroids is that it is from the universities that all our future “professionals” come from. This won’t stop with just social studies classes - these radical Marxist politicos will turn to not only controlling acceptable speech, but also acceptable science and science “outcomes”.
We bemoan the destruction of what was once a respectable public school system (pre-1965) that was the envy of the world at educating and eradicating illiteracy. The primary reason for its demise was the state education departments demanding all teachers to have an “education” degree. All the young skulls full of mush wanting to be teachers have been “educated” by radical agenda of the 60’s ideas that slowly but surely turned out school system into a social experiment for progressivism.
It’s not just sixties radicalism, or liberal in general, but the fact that students are so obsessed with finding themselves that they don’t go out into the world for life experience and instead overthink the littlest things and end up spending time getting worked up over nothings. University used to be a place of learning, not a place to find yourself (whatever that means these days) and frankly there’s no good reason that students shouldn’t fill their time on projects related to their major, building their resume with experience.