You know, I agree with you. But in a world of "microaggressions" and a systematic devaluation of the meaning of English words, I'm not sure the people you're sort of defending would necessarily agree.
If you mean the students, they'd call it violence when it was done to them, and not violence when done to the administration (or others they disagreed with).
Likely they would not. That does not mean we should cooperate with them to change the meaning of words to confuse people.