>> Heh. You say that "I'm sorry, now are you satisfied?" is the apology of someone who thinks they did nothing wrong, but I think it's a bit more complicated than that. It strikes me as a dominance issue <<

It is a dominance issue too. Bo Ray considers himself dominant to students. He therefore does not bother to check their actual status. This is exactly what got his clock cleaned by Stan, who has way more social clout than he realizes.

A teacher may outrank a student, but there's far more to social station than that -- and dominance isn't the same think as rank. Stan is dominant to damn near everyone, just from personality. Bo Ray throws his weight around because he is a petty tyrant. Stan doesn't have to throw his around.

>> "there, I did what you wanted, and you're still not happy, so too bad!" <<

No, he didn't.

>> And in a sense, there's some "I did nothing wrong" but if you asked such a person to judge the same situation with the roles reversed, they'd agree it was wrong. They might think it's not wrong because *they* don't owe (decency/courtesy/whatever) to the person they've just "fine-I'm-sorry-satisfied". <<

This is often true, but not always. Don't count on it with a boomerang bigot. They're already picking on the category that includes themselves.