It's not fake.
Here was a great quote from a U of C law professor Geoffrey Stone about this:
On the rise of trigger warnings and safe spaces
“I think a couple of things have happened in recent years. One explanation, which has been put forth by a number of people, is that this new generation of college students has been raised by so-called 'helicopter parents,' that they have been shielded and protected and celebrated from the time of their birth and have basically been immunized from having to deal with frustration and defeat and challenge. That when encountering it, they don't have the resilience that their predecessors had and therefore seek protection from those things that they find upsetting. And to the extent that's true, it seems to me that a core responsibility of colleges and universities is to enable those students to develop the mechanisms that effective citizens need to have in order to deal in the real world, with ideas and views they find loathsome and offensive, and not to shield them in the way their parents allegedly have."
