i’m not sure what it is that requires reconciliation. the differences between the situation of the students who lost their acceptances to harvard for engaging in activities which were offensive at best and morally repugnant at worst and the situation of a bank executive being treated to a hostile work environment because she was participating in the political process as part of a group calling for their representative to hold a town hall meeting are so large as to be almost incomparable. it’s not so much that you’re trying to compare apples to oranges as it is that you’re trying to compare apples to tire rims.
additionally your quoting the xkcd cartoon as prelude to your request for reconciling those incommensurables is even more confusing. it’s almost as though you don’t quite grasp the point of the cartoon in the first place.
