In this particular case, the privilege of getting people who are angry at your conduct slimed with the argument-ending slur "anti-intellectual" is all the privilege I need for my case to hold. I would love to be able to leap to the defense of the intellectuals against the "anti-intellectuals", but part of the responsibility that comes with that privilege includes partaking of and propagating a certain culture of intellectual openness and freedom, which the academy has abrogated in toto. The only people left who think that the academy is free and open are the people who happen to espouse the exact philosophy and political beliefs that have closed the academy down; literally nobody else is fooled anymore.

If you believe otherwise, you can prove me wrong by scheduling a talk about a politically-sensitive topic that deviates from the dominant leftist beliefs in some way at a major university, and show me that you were accepted and treated respectfully. It will not even remotely do to convince me I'm wrong to just spray some words at me in a text box; at this point the evidence that the academy has become intellectually closed is so overwhelming that only the willful blindness granted to those on "your side" can fail to see it.