Fri Jan 14, 2022 – 5:05 pm EST
BIG RAPIDS, Michigan (LifeSiteNews) — What should have been an ordinary beginning-of-the-semester introduction video for a class at a Michigan university went viral after the professor appeared on screen in a full helmet and medical mask before launching into a vulgar rant in which he called students “vectors of disease.”
“Listen up, folks, I’m old enough to be your grandpa and you people are vectors of disease to me,” Professor Barry Mehler, 74, told students after pulling off his NASA-like $300 helmet and N95 mask in a video posted January 9.
“So, when I look out at a classroom filled with 50 students, I see 50 selfish kids who don’t give a s*** whether grandpa lives or dies,” added Mehler, who is a history professor at Ferris State University in Michigan and founder and director of the school’s Institute for the Study of Academic Racism.
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“There is no benefit whatsoever to coming to class,” Mehler continued in the 14-minute video, which has racked up over a quarter of a million views since Sunday — explaining that his class can be fully conducted online.
While Ferris State University does not require students
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