In principle I kind of see what you’re saying but I mean if the cops chose to talk to him I’m sure they’d have the context of “this is a Stanford professor call

In principle I kind of see what you’re saying but I mean if the cops chose to talk to him I’m sure they’d have the context of “this is a Stanford professor calling the cops on a Berkeley professor about a tweet.” And like you said it is more about power and at least from my perspective elite university professor falls under that. I could definitely be overestimating that though. My point is given the situation the chances of something like that happening is probably quite a bit lower than with any interaction with the police regardless of race.