What needs to be pointed out is that “Schlosser” starts the article with a story about how he used authoritarian methods to stiffile the opinion of a student who dared to raiseFannie and Freddie’s role in the economic crisis.
He never apologizes for doing that. He never acknowleges that it was just as wrong as what his newer and decidedly more Progressive students are now doing to him and his peers.
He’s utterly incapable of seeing, let alone acknowleging, his own culpability in this mess.
That's not correct.
The author's story was the equivalent of a thread hijack. The author's lesson was on the effectiveness of writing and presentation in getting one's message out. The student wanted to debate the subject of the message in the video, not the style and effectiveness of the communication medium that was used. The author wanted to redirect the student's focus back onto the lesson.
This was not an attempt to bully the student into changing an opinion.
-PJ