How Have We Allowed This To Permeate Society?

... the panel said her award should be slightly lessened for not anticipating that 'the culture of protest and activism in which isolated terms can be seized on and misrepresented by a minority as condoning or encouraging the behaviour it describes, all magnified in influence by social media.'

Translation: "It's partly your fault that you didn't anticipate we'd act like headless chickens in the face of a social media shitstorm by the usual suspects..."

But isn't it about time people didn't..? And then could be free of reacting to every little whinge and complaint?