That sounds . . . well, really difficult. You didn't deserve to be yelled at.

I don't think Brandeis in particular is lacking in its ability to see others' humanity. It's an unfortunate trait, maybe even a kind of primitive survival instinct, that most humans seem to have on some level. Brandeis tends to look strange because it's a diverse community with a very large Jewish component, and I think there are a lot of Jews who don't handle that gracefully. They want either a ghetto or a society in which they are the repressed minority, and Brandeis provides neither.