Senior Class President: Our school, in suspending a student who verbally challenged his lab partner' s results, has erred by penalizing the student for doing what he surely has a right to do: speak his mind! Superintendent: But what you' re saying is that our school district should endorse verbal harassment. Yet surely if we did that, we would threaten the free flow of ideas that is the core of this school' s academic tradition. Which one of the following is a questionable technique that the superintendent uses to refute the class president?
A: Questioning the motives of the class president as opposed to offering reasons for his own conclusion.
B: Incorrectly describing the class president's position, thereby making it easily to challenge.
C: Challenging the class president's knowledge of the process by which the student was suspended.
D: Relying on a position of power to silence the opposing viewpoint through threats.
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
B