[joesmo]

No it doesn't. They want to leave. Let them face the consequences of their own stupid actions. A respectable institution (not saying Yale is or isn't) shouldn't have to deal with such ridiculous bullshit and should stand behind its professors, especially those who have given them decades of service.

What would you do? Fire the professor for standing up for the students? These students are so fucking stupid, they don't even realize the professor is standing up for them!

[dudul]

That's actually the part I don't understand. This professor was actually complaining that the institution should stop treating them like babies and trust them to do the right thing. How can these students get offended by that?

[caskance]

Virtually all of these students are happy to not be treated like babies themselves. What they are complaining about is that their classmates who disagree with them may be trusted to do the right thing. And how can they do the right thing if they disagree with me about what is right? Clearly the only solution is for the school to force them to behave the way I want them to. The right way.

[makomk]

Except that the school didn't force them to do anything, and didn't even suggest that it was going to do so - it just asked them, very politely, to think about how their Halloween costumes would look to minority students before they embarrassed themselves. Apparently this is an attack on free speech because it might make white students uncomfortable wearing blackface, though. The students are protesting someone who literally demanded that the university not ask people to think about other's views because it might make them uncomfortable, and called it free speech, and apparently this is them demanding to be "coddled". Because some speech is more free than others.

[caskance]

You may have missed some sarcasm.

It's clearly not an attack on free speech. The real criticism is that it's prioritizing free expression aka speech over other rights.