Posted on 01/14/2022 12:16:02 PM PST by Trillian
A tenured Michigan university professor has been placed on leave after he told students in a profanity-laced video that he didn't want to know anything about them because they were 'just vectors of disease.'
Barry Mehler, 74, a tenured history professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan, posted the 14-minute video on Sunday, a day before the Spring 2022 semester began.
In the video, he told students that it didn't matter how hard they worked in his class because he randomly predetermined their grades prior to the semester.
'None of you… are good enough to earn an A in my class,' Mehler said. 'So I randomly assign grades before the first day of class. I don't want to know anything about you. I don't even want to know your name. I just look at the number and I assign a grade. That is how predestination works...
'And don't come… complaining to me. Take your complaints to God.'
Mehler has been teaching at Ferris for nearly 30 years in the humanities department and is the director of the university's Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, according to his bio on the university's website that has since been deleted.
Mehler introduced himself at the beginning of the video wearing what he described as a helmet equipped with filters to protect him from the coronavirus.
'I will not take questions in class because I'm wearing this... helmet in order to stay alive,' he said.
Mehler is one of many professors who has expressed concern about returning to in-person learning during the pandemic.
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He looks suspiciously like Fauxi. Maybe he IS Fauxi. He certainly treats people like Fauxi.
'None of you… are good enough to earn an A in my class,' Mehler said. 'So I randomly assign grades before the first day of class. I don't want to know anything about you. I don't even want to know your name. I just look at the number and I assign a grade. That is how predestination works.
That's kind funny. I'm willing to bet he was joking.
Early stage of dementia.
Holy crap, that was my first thought too.
He’s crazy as a bedbug.
“...he randomly predetermined their grades prior to the semester.”
Hmm, must be Calvinist...
CDS - Covid Derangement Syndrome.
Or late stage parental rage sudden death syndrome. There are momma bears that will sacrafice themselves for their children.
“... director of the university’s Institute for the Study of Academic Racism ...”
It’s not racist if you hate everyone equally.
What’s our vector Victor?
Sounds like a Biden appointee.
I graduated from Ferris State in the late ‘80’s.
One of my professors was very similar to this clown, and he definitely had dementia.
Ferris was very I woke back then. One instructor even used the Bible as part of his class instruction.
Like most, they’ve gone full woketard. They are the home of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Propaganda.
I’m guessing Professor Moonbat is the curator.
Lost in Space
“Early stage of dementia.”
All part of his plan.
He was not joking...as expected he is joking christianity
what ever happened to the wisdom of old age?....
Had a teacher with a similar attitude in high school. He was a great teacher by the way.
After he returned our graded tests one day I noticed at the top of mine: "-1 99 GP".
I asked about it and he said no one ever does perfect work so if necessary he would take off one point on general principles. No one ever got above 99 on his tests.
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