Confused

So from what I understand about Mizzou, I agree with what happened as justifiable and I'm glad that the president had to step down. However, I'm really confused about what's going on at Yale.

If I'm translating the situation correctly, students want an apology (which escalated to a resignation) from two resident professors because the two professors were not only trying to create an intellectual community that questioned why rules about costumes had to come from an authoritarian figure, but also because they were trying to address the students' concerns about an email and create a dialogue about it? And the students were demanding that professors apologize for hurting their feelings. That doesn't make sense to me at all.

I don't understand how that created an unsafe space. Views can be challenged...? Why should one feel unsafe about a disagreement? Doesn't that speak to one's on insecurities as a person? If one cannot take the fact that someone is questioning who one is, doesn't that mean that one should learn to understand and accept one's own identity first? If someone questions my identity, I simply tell them who I am. They can think whatever they want about me; I'm still me and none of that will change. I don't understand how creating an intellectual space about why the school has to police costumes turns into a debate about race. I really don't.

I suppose if the premise is that the students respected the decision of the university to create the rules on what acceptable and unacceptable costumes are, the fact that a resident professor would even question that would be... outrageous? Even in the name of intellectual exploration? Even though the resident professor made it abundantly clear that she agreed that such costumes shouldn't be allowed? If college isn't a place to be able to express one's individuality and one's thoughts, regardless of what it is, then where can an independent mind learn to do such things?But the flip side also becomes this: should such "policing" (in this case, of costumes) be done by the students?

If students feel too young or immature (and accept themselves to be as such), then I suppose they could then accept the fact that some higher authority needs to make the rules for them. They want to avoid policing themselves/each other; thus, it is easier to have someone else (of authority) to do it for them so that they can avoid awkward confrontations. I'm guessing that's the mentality?

For some reason, it still doesn't seem to make sense. And if anything, it sounds somewhat selfish (I don't want to have to deal with it) and immature (I'll just have someone else do it for me).

Is this what the new generation considers to be a valuable quality for society? I suppose the later generation was (is?) all about questioning authority. For them, it is always this questioning: "who are you to tell me what I can and cannot do" and "I will do what I want, when I want, and however I want to do it."

The next generation wants it to be all about them. "I don't feel safe. I feel offended. You can't say that to me. Do you know who I am? I am marginalized, revere me!" (Okay, so revere is a bit of an extreme word but in some ways, it really isn't.)

I don't know. Let us see what comes of it.

The article that made me think of all this is below: 

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-intolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/

Oh, and to add to that is a response from Yale's president and dean of Yale College:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/11/yale-leaders-re-affirm-their-commitment-to-diversity-and-debate/

I think the most insightful is the following:
"We also affirm Yale’s bedrock principle of the freedom to speak and be heard, without fear of intimidation, threats, or harm, and we renew our commitment to this freedom not as a special exception for unpopular or controversial ideas but for them especially."

Why do I feel sympathy for the professor, who is literally surrounded by students rather than the screaming girl who demands and literally screams at the professor to apologize. If I were the professor, I would feel the "fear of intimidation, threats, or harm." Especially being surrounded by students like that. In this particular case, I don't think it has anything to do with race. What I see are petulant, stressed out students venting their frustrations at a professor who is trying to help them.

For the video, see below:

There are other clips of him trying to reason with these students. He's trying to talk with them and I feel like all they see is this white man in a position of power trying to put them down when he's trying to create an open dialogue with them. It doesn't make sense to me.