Lots of comments in this thread about how kids spend all their time online, have no face-to-face interactions, etc, and that's why they're intolerant of opposing viewpoints. I'm not buying that premise for one second. First, intolerance is nothing new, and if anything, the oldest members of our society are much more intolerant than the youth, just as it's always been. We are an intolerant culture, and always have been. If young people are doing it it's because they learned it from their elders. One dipshit aggie kid who was clearly coached through her attack on a professor doesn't change this. Kids spend significantly more time in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds, where they must learn to navigate challenging personalities and situations while discussing topics that are prone to being inflammatory, than the vast majority of adults do. 99% of adults are hiding in a bubble and rarely communicate with anyone face-to-face who isn't a coworker or a close friend, and that's only if they actually work outside of their home. Even then, most companies tend to be filled with very similar people, because that's how hiring works. Calling out the only segment of our society that actually has to deal with diversity daily rings hollow to me.
What's going on culturally with political correctness, cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, was not started by young people. Some young people are influenced by intolerant adults, for sure. The shouting down of speakers on college campuses rarely starts with a student movement. This aggie nonsense was clearly not driven by that student, who could barely string a sentence together and thinks that the president has his own laws. It's outsiders, whether parents, political activists, or just plain old shitheads, that stir up young people. The mush brains that people under 25 are walking around with aren't coming up with a damn thing on their own outside of how to party and fuck, and even those things are being ruined by adult influence.
I do agree the Internet has made things worse, but there's a reason Facebook is the big gaping asshole of the Internet. It's where all the old people are.