Does the PC mob know how they look to the rest of the country? Do they even get it?

The College Fix reports.

Yale associate master defends Halloween free expression; outrage ensues

Yale Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis sent out an email Friday defending the right of students to wear costumes which may be “culturally appropriating.”

You can probably guess what happened: Yep, over 400 members of the campus community signed a letter “stating that her ‘offensive’ email invalidates the voices of minority students on campus.”

Offensive … ? Christakis’s email argued that “students’ rights to wear potentially marginalizing costumes [is] an expression of free speech,” and noted that “the ability to tolerate offense is one of the hallmarks of a free and open society.”

Wow — a member of the contemporary academy who actually understands what the First Amendment means. But that’s offensive.

The Yale Daily News reports:

“Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious… a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?” Christakis wrote. “American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”

In response, more than 400 undergraduates, graduates, faculty and alumni have signed on to an open letter to Christakis stating that her “offensive” email invalidates the voices of minority students on campus. The letter, released Friday night, states that Christakis misrepresented the Intercultural Affairs Committee’s call for sensitivity as “censure.” It also states that in describing the call for sensitive costumes as coming “from above, not from yourselves,” Christakis implies that only administrators, and not students, have called for sensitivity.