It illustrates how frighteningly maladaptive they are, the social justice warriors of this age.

Think about it. It's a university. It is SUPPOSED to be a place where freedom of speech reigns, to have battles of the minds between the best and brightest, where ideas and proposals are debated, argued and dismissed or embraced with verbal vigor.

In that setting, you have five (supposed to be such) people at a table. One of them makes a striking comment. The response of the other four is to say nothing. They sit on their hands, and with blank stares invoking the most distant elements of Forrest Gump, they watch the world go by. 

Later, when three have left (to go organize an army of hundreds of faculty members and students to get the speaker fired in a blaze of social justice warrior glory), the one remaining at the table privately utters his disapproval of the comment.

Are you KIDDING ME, Massey College? That dystopian star chamber is what passes for your learning environment?