Academics: do not quote your students' work, or their conversations with you, online. It's a disastrous breach of trust, to sneer at them on social media in this way. Why do people in our job do this? Why the need to parade our power & virtue by publicly condemning those we're supposed to educate?
Comments
Also, academics who do this express a flaw in their character. There is nothing virtuous in these sorts of actions; these conversations tend express—and thus perpetuate—an unhealthy power dynamic; one that involves ressentiment and the ‘sad passions’ .