@PedestrianError
Oh, tell me about it.
But! It’s not all defense: in my own department, there’s a strong unity among dept faculty and admin and (I’d say) a strong majority of students about making the department a safe and inclusive place. Not that we always succeed — but it’s the ground-level assumption that it’s our job to always be trying, to keep taking those two steps forward over and over and over even if there’s also one step back. Those students you’re talking about do show up, but they do not find themselves able to stay comfortable in that mindset!