> It certainly doesn’t help that your workplace strives to walk and quack like some kind of college campus.

Is this not a great thing? Having a walkable place with quality of life amenities is a positive thing when youre talking about somewhere you spend at least 1/3 of the day

Campus activism is much older than 10-20 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Philadelphia_student_demo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_strike_of_1970

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_protests_o...

Yes, but this particular flavor is new.

Shutting down college campuses? Hear of the 1960s? Sit Ins? We had a little of that in the 80s around Sout Africa and, oh Alaska ANWAR. Shutdown wallstreet toxics campaign. It is different now but in just the way everything that the Internet touches changes.

No, it’s different in that now the shutdowns are not over issues such as the Vietnam War but rather a professor objecting to to a ‘day without white people’[0], an instructor using a word in Chinese that merely sounds like an unmentionable word in English [1] or a progressive dean using the word ‘slaveholder’ in a self-deprecating context [2]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-lesson-in-campus-consequences...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54107329

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/nyregion/CUNY-law-school-...

You’re comparing large movements involving most of society with a few anecdotes during the current period of relatively little societal unrest.