On the most obvious level these are young minds who want to have their cake and eat it too, unaware that they can't have, say, coercion where they think they're valuing freedom, inclusion that is achieved by excluding any who have different life views, reason that is achieved by violence. This is not critical thinking that is easily achieved by young minds still grappling with what these grand abstractions really mean, which is why there is a faculty composed of minds that presumably have.
Unfortunately the latter is no longer the case, and large swathes of faculty and staff have never elevated their intellects past the grand illusions of youth, seeking instead to be forever young themselves. The madness feeds on itself. And so there is no appreciation that no one side can lay claim, as the Left does, to complete and exclusive possession of every ideal that pretends virtue, consigning its opponents to sole possession of every ideal that is wicked. And by the time this dawns on the now-impoverished victim of this intellectual charade, it's too late to learn the tools of discrimination (that Bad Word again) any way but the hard, real-world one. And so their collegiate experience becomes one of joining a tribe and avoiding any tendency to challenge its verities. It's a cheat, in short.
Bill, many students not interested in a higher education, especially at elite or prestigious schools. They are there to parrot and mimic the ways of the elite so that they think they are a member of that class. They copy the jargon, the dress, the various signs that tell the world they are in that special coterie, the elite. That is the real learning going on...
You can get a decent education almost anywhere. But to go to university is a big financial outlay. So you want a return on that investment — meet the right people, make the right connections, etc.
I think the discrepancy indicates that college students are being subjected to a lot of propaganda, a lot of it likely by the faculty. It’s happening with grade school students now. It’s a commie wet dream to politically activate students.