Kathleen Kearns’ article states:

Crystall’s e-mail said in part, “What we heard Thursday at the end of class constitutes ‘hate speech’ and is completely unacceptable.” She did not name Mertes in the e-mail but characterized him as “a white, heterosexual, Christian male” and “a perfect example of privilege.”

Ms. Kearns, Crystall did name Tim in her email. This is a rather important feature of the controversy; how could you miss it? See point 3 in the email: “for those of you who want to respond to and discuss further thursday’s class and the comments that tim made…”