This is about certain people, particularly privileged rich white males, not wanting consequences for their actions and wanting to be coddled. It is also about their parents — who would often be university administrators, wanting to coddle and protect them. When women or people of color make mistakes, they get raped or thrown in the depths of prison. However, it seems that when privileged white males make a mistake, police cover it up, administrators look the other way, and sand is piled upon gaping wounds. We aren’t helping anyone — neither people of color across economics and culture, rich white men, nor women by coddling one section of the student population at the expense of everyone else. I applaud students at Yale for doing the responsible thing, speaking up, and pointing out these problems, even when administrators older than them have failed to do so.

This does not only concern issues of racial discrimination, and these protests are more than needed; it also affects women — take for example “Take back the night” protests that have been happening for years and fall on deaf ears.

You say “wanting college to be a “safe space” goes against everything that a college stands for: making as many mistakes as possible, so that you don’t repeat them in real life.” Poster, college is “real life.” The problem is that privileged college students think college is a fantasy world or video game where you can wake up, or press reset, your mistakes have vanished into thin air and you can do everything over again.

I mean, tell this nonsense to the victim of sexual assault or racial profiling. I’m sure their injuries are real.