Not the parent, but if I were to spitball an idea, it's that the vast majority of the population of a university is young, and does not have much world experience of their own, or enough peers with such experience in the world. Even if the people leading an idea are actually informed and experienced, the people following them may not be and are only emotionally charged on the idea. And since it's only emotionally charged, they have no way to discuss the idea except with emotions.