Many of the loudest voices on both sides are the worst enemy of their movement. I think if either side could manage to silence their more obnoxious (and typically hypocritical) members then that side would win by default as everyone else sick of hearing about it all the time turned on the one still spewing bile over the topic. As it is, some of the more abrasive members on both sides (including those who claim to be for social justice but don't actually seem to understand what equality means, what "love conquers hate" means, and may even just be exploiting such issues for personal power and status) seem to me to contribute to any backlash.
Though for what it's worth, a community college I know of isn't bad at all (at least not in this regard). Most of the students there are more interested in video games and anime than social issues (they have their small minority that lives up to the "SJW" stereotype, and another small minority that is just as abrasive opposed to them, most of the rest just try to stay out of their way), and the one time that something racial became a big deal was, IMO, well deserved (which I don't automatically think). I was especially relieved when the campus library joined public libraries in opposing censorship, which included defending books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (and as there was no protest against that, it tells me that the more ridiculous types that seem legion on tumblr just don't hold much of a presence there).
I'm not surprised that tolerance is waning in some places (mainly because people feel safer in showing their true colors than they were before, on top of being fanned by people encouraging them, and provoked by people being verbally abusive and threatening to them over it, online for the most part, though the BAFFLING popularity of Alex Jones would also contribute to it), but I've been spared that for the most part. (It happens, but it still hasn't gotten as bad as it was in the 90s and early 2000s, and I'm still more hopeful for the future than I was back then. It really helps when I avoid the more toxic places of the internet that engage in these culture wars, the world looks so much better as a result when I realize how relatively few the toxic ones on both sides are, being the loudest doesn't make one the majority, though their rants do filter somewhat to what everyday people say.)
I'm only aware of one lawsuit which had an impact that I could experience (though I know of some that were threatened, some that I thought were deserved, and others not so much). Right after Trump became POTUS, a social worker in charge of a homeless shelter (one of the better ones with a waiting list that does so much more than shelter the homeless) became mind blowing racist in obvious ways (like denying a meal to a Black guy and saying "watch your step you f- n-" in front of everyone else). The board of directors who funded that shelter and other programs, either to protect their social (nonprofit) investment or because (I hope this is the case) they were exceedingly shocked and offended by such blatant racism which they also felt violated their mission statement, removed that social worker from his job immediately (good for them).
However, the lawsuit still went through which cost them (don't know the details, I think it was settled out of court) and now that shelter (which I've volunteered at after this happened) has very strict rules, you can't even play rap music or a movie that uses the N-word, even if it's shown in a bad light (that is, condemning it's use) and it's strictly enforced (volunteers and social workers who don't enforce it, let alone violate it, are out of there). They are also strict about words or actions that could be deemed contemptuous or worse to anyone gay or transgendered for the same reason (fear of a lawsuit).
Interesting enough, other shelters, more religiously motivated, also made concessions to transgendered and the like, presumably to avoid similar lawsuits (though strangely, they still enforce a ban against all marijuana use despite legality), which they almost certainly did through gritted teeth (before this it was an open secret that if you were known to not be heterosexual and heteronormative not to go there, though meth heads were welcome, of course, going to show they really do think drug addiction is more of a choice that could be cured with Bible therapy while being gay or whatever is not, though still no doing drugs on the property, just as heterosexual sex is banned on property).
But I don't recall there being a lot of stress over it, at least not at the 2 places I volunteered directly affected by this lawsuit. Though sometimes certain movies had to be turned off (technically music as well, but as most just used headphones it was usually a non-issue) which caused grumbling and/or apologetic shrugs, it was considered a trivial annoyance rather than the end of the world.
Interesting enough (and I have no idea why this is), at least half the women who worked or volunteered there (including me), and same for the women who stayed there, either identified as bi or lesbian (openly gay men were very rare), and for the most part we were accepted by about everyone, the more friendly of us were even more popular than the other staff and volunteers. I could go on (including about a transgendered person), but technically I've said too much as it is already (though I no longer volunteer there for completely unrelated reasons), and this is long enough anyway. Not everyone was supportive of the strict policy, but I don't think it was more than an annoyance to them.
