“When people who had been oppressed start to be liberated, the first thing that ensues is chaos and it can be violent chaos…”
That’s a great quote, one that I put in the context of a large class where an online instructor would purposefully ignite all kind of brushfires in all kinds of subcommunities in the class, and watch where it is going and how those communities would make sense of it. Most likely it would create chaos, and leads to the question of the responsibilities of the instructor then: should they s/he help those subcommunities make sense of things (probably to wildly different degrees), should s/he make sure to bring about a sense of peace at the end, if there is such a thing? That question of responsibilities needs to be addressed by considering also the chaos brought about to the instructor him/herself, and the possible need for time to set him/herself in a better situation.