He’s simplifying the issue but I agree overall. It’s legitimate to protest a guest speaker if they are a hateful ideologue and you want to show that you don’t support their views. And if a professor or student is being racist, misogynistic, transphobic, etc. you have a right to call that out and it shouldn’t be tolerated. But if you refuse to read or hear about anything that might upset you in a class, you’re trying to shelter yourself from the world and you may as well not even bother going to college, holding a job, or interacting with people. If you insist that nobody else should read or hear about these things, you’re holding other people’s education hostage to your emotions.

Most people around the world don’t have the luxury of closing their eyes to the worst and most upsetting parts of life because they experience them directly. It’s a privilege for us to be able to decide we don’t want to hear about these things secondhand.