Shutting down opposition is the whole point of the protests.
Via Daily Caller:
In an interview released Monday by NPR, President Barack Obama praised recent student protests that have rocked campuses in recent months as a “good thing,” but urged them not to “shut people up” in the process.
Obama gave a wide-ranging interview on topics from ISIS to Donald Trump, and one of the topics NPR interviewer Steve Inskeep asked him to touch upon was protests on college campuses, specifically the efforts to change Harvard Law School’s seal and to rename Yale University’s Calhoun College.
Obama decided not to comment on those two specific protest efforts, but instead decided to speak about campus protests more generally. He said he was broadly supportive of protests, but worried they sometimes become intolerant … like conservatives.