The SJWs love gatekeeping... as long as they have the keys to the gate. One of the first things they do when performing entryism on something is to take over gatekeeping roles.
To master the mindset of the Woke, you must embrace religion. The most holy and undeniable belief in your own self righteousness. Why are you right? Because you're you, and thus by definition you, your beliefs, and your opinions are right, and everyone else is wrong.
To this end, their mindset works ass backwards from logic. They have a conclusion that they believe in -- not "believe is true" but believe in, spiritually, religiously, with all the confidence of a religious fundamentalist. Why do they believe in it so ardently? Becuase it's their conclusion and they can never be wrong. They then work backwards from this conclusion, which can never change. They work backwards to find justifications and reasonings and excuses and stories to confirm what they know, they know to be true.
Because there's no logic, it doesn't have to make sense. Because there's no reasoning, they can pull these arguments out of their ass instantly. Because they don't really NEED these things, they can discard them on a whim and not even break stride.
Because it's religion -- the holy church of worshiping your own farts -- being proven wrong or counteracted doesn't affect them. They know they're right. They know they're good, and just, and moral, and truthful. They can't surrender even a single aspect of any of this or their entire identity comes crashing down upon them.
And thus, anyone who disagrees is dishonest, immoral, biased, and evil.
And, as you all know, you don't debate with evil.
"Good people" destroy evil.
And now you can see why they can take Vic, have an absolutely insane take on him, be proven wrong again and again, be caught lying again and again and again, and it doesn't shift their core belief in his guilt and their moral superiority at all. Because they have taken all of this on a religious faith that the Scientologists would kill to be able to instill in people on demand.
When examining the woke, the SJWs, the KickVickers, the Antifa Marxists and the Tidy bowl dykes with greivence study degrees... don't approach them like you're approaching someone who has a misunderstanding about the world that you can debate with. They don't. They have a religious worldview, and they will burn down the rest of society rather than admit they were ever wrong. Treat them like the victims of a cult, because that's literally what they are.
The faster we, as a society, recognize Post-Modernism and Neo-Marxism (Cultural Marxism) as using cult indoctrination on students, the better.
As it stands, it's going to require a purge the likes of which you have never seen to dislodge these types from academia.
There's a reason Sanders and Warren and the other leftists are trying to make college free -- because the one weakness they have right now is the economic aspect. If they didn't have "free" unlimited college tuition money to siphon -- yeah, there's a generation of useless Cultural Marxist students that will be in debt for the next 50 years, but that's Capitalism's fault and we'll fix it after the Cultural Revolution, comrades -- then the system would break down.