a semi-successful call-out

Student, giving a presentation where we had to critique articles: “Well, I don’t know how credible this paper is… [says name of author], and the English was kind of funny… like some random Chinese dude wrote this" 
prof: "actually that team is from Germany… and that’s a Japanese name" 

no mention of how racist the dude was though… only like 3 poc were in the class and we sat there and fumed