When and why did software engineering become the playground of aggressive, oppressive SJW and emotionally brittle snowflakes? Are other fields (of engineering) also as infested with all this nonsense?

Here we have people throwing a fit over... nothing and then we have a speaker that calls himself „shattered“ after those ridiculous accusations? We need more Linus Torvalds.

To make one thing clear: The speaker is the victim in this interaction. Being unhappy about the accusation is understandable, feeling "shattered" makes me worried for them.