[Right Wing Professor]

There is a difference between criticism and mockery.

Sure. And some things deserve only mockery...

Failure to realize the difference proves, again, the bankruptcy of professorial pretendence.

...; for example, worthy of mockery are people who make up words like 'pretendence'.

[Thumper1960]

...; for example, worthy of mockery are people who make up words like 'pretendence'.

Once again, the word is real and your grammatical sentence construction is incorrect.