He’s addressing the professor in your article, not you FRiend. This is typical of posts at such an article. He surely agrees with you, and you both loath this professor.
Not your article, but THE article, he just hit your reply button instead of “1”.
I guess that seems so after rereading everything even though I’d have expected that to be a post to the OP. I apologize for my reply. Mea Culpa.