It allows them to continue an adolescent narrative:
If you’ve raised a teenager, as my wife Nancy and I have done, you’ll immediately recognize this as typically adolescent behavior. The clueless narcissism (“to the academic philosophy community…”); the catastrophizing (I know Kathleen Stock. You can watch video of Kathleen Stock. One cannot possibly be “unsafe” because of Kathleen Stock); the empty (because toothless) demands; the emotional blackmail (You see what you’re making me do!); even the proverbial running away from home (I’m leaving and never coming back!) It’s all there.
invite response
https://theelectricagora.com/2019/06/09/peak-woke-philosophy/
As for Academics, there's quite a bit of adult dependent resentment as well:
The solution is to reduce funding, keep to standards of behavior, and ignore the wailing.