Note that the person on your last link, despite professing to be terrified of his students, seems to have been happy enough to publish that article with his real name on it.
Vox: Edward Schlosser is a college professor, writing under a pseudonym.
Ha. I actually checked for that, but obviously not carefully enough. My apologies.
[EDITED to add:] OK, so I went back and searched the page, and it doesn't say that anywhere. (Though buried in the middle of the article is a statement along the lines of "all controversial things I write, like this article, are anonymous or pseudonymous", so I still should have known.) Perhaps it's because I'm reading on a mobile device?
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