Leftists never seem to understand that free speech covers speech you don’t like, too.

The College Fix reports.

Campus nag session on White Student Union highlights students’ ignorance of First Amendment

UC Santa Barbara recently held a meeting to allow students distressed by the newly created “UCSB White Student Union” Facebook page “to talk, get support, or express their feelings.”

The good news? Among the 30 or so students there who bemoaned its creation and decried it as racist, they ultimately learned that free speech trumps their hurt feelings.

The bad news? Comments voiced at the kvetching session shows that college students are still treated like preschoolers, and many sincerely don’t understand why they cannot control and silence speech that upsets them.

First, some background. In early December a Facebook page called the “UCSB White Student Union” was created to counter the spate of protests across the nation that allege universities are hotbeds of institutionalized racism.

The page prompted many UCSB students to condemn it as racist, “insensitive to the plight of minorities,” and so forth. The page got even more attention when it released a set of reparation demands that seemed to mock those made at Yale and Mizzou and dozens of other campuses across the nation…

In the introductory remarks at the meeting, held Dec. 5, administrators revealed that they had attempted to determine the IP address of the person or people running the WSU Facebook page, but failed to do so. Some students in the room thanked officials for trying, while a handful expressed disappointment that the university would even attempt to track down those who created the page.

As the room swelled to about 30 students, a lengthy discussion was launched on how participants were to talk to one another (e.g. “how much time should each person speak?” “In what order?” etc.) and what topics were going to be covered. This useless endeavor lasted about 30 minutes. The group eventually formed into a big circle, akin to something seen on preschool playgrounds.