I am not in the US either but have found a lot of material on people that are trying to improve situations being shouted down on campuses by various factions. There is no chance of talking about real issues if this is the process. The interesting thing is that the universities in the US generally hold the most privileged people on earth.

As said, responsibility of speech is of utmost importance but so is charity in the willingness to listen to someone attempt to state their position, however imperfect. We live in a global society where there are language and cultural difference in the way people approach discussion and this must also be considered by an audience.

My name was blacky for the first years of my school life. I grew up in a small town in South Australia. Some of those people that called me that are my friends today more than thirty years later, as once they started exploring other conversations and circumstances in life, they realised their argument was poor. We all must learn to listen to a range of perspectives even if we disagree. It may not change us but it gives us new space to think upon.