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‘I don’t want the deans hearing that I said that,’ professor says

Men who won’t vote for a female president should be “line[d] up” and shot, according to a University of Kansas professor.

The lecturer, subsequently identified by the university as Phillip Lowcock, says “what frustrates” him is men who think females are not “smart enough to be president.”

“We can line up all those guys and shoot ‘em, they clearly don’t understand the way the world works,” Lowcock says. He teaches in the health sport and exercise department according to his university bio.

“Did I say that? Scratch that from the recording I don’t want the deans hearing that I said that,” the lecturer says on the video clip.

The university said the instructor has been “placed on administrative leave” according to a post on X today.

He reportedly apologized and “deeply regrets the situation.”

Around the same time, the university responded to an earlier Fix email and voicemail, stating the same things it wrote on X.

A statement from the university regarding a classroom video. pic.twitter.com/SWnmhsNuPa

— University of Kansas (@UnivOfKansas) October 9, 2024

The video drew quick condemnation.

“Anyone saying men who don’t vote for Kamala Harris should be ‘lined up and shot’ is deranged and shouldn’t be around students nor academia,” Senator Roger Marshall wrote on X.

Disturbing video from a @UnivOfKansas professor. Anyone saying men who don’t vote for Kamala Harris should be ‘lined up and shot’ is deranged and shouldn’t be around students nor academia.

I trust that the @UnivOfKansas will take immediate action and fire this professor. https://t.co/ke3C2YNiYW

— Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) October 9, 2024

“I trust that the @UnivOfKansas will take immediate action and fire this professor,” the Republican senator wrote.

Turning Point USA staffer Makaylee Hawkins wrote that the group’s University of Kansas chapter “already reported him to the college.”

“No university should condone this behavior from their employees,” Hawkins wrote on X.

The chairman of the Kansas Young Republicans also condemned the comments.

As an alumni of The University of Kansas this is extremely disturbing.

Suggesting that people should be SHOT based on who they voted for is un-American.

This type of rhetoric is reckless, dangerous and goes against the values we share as Americans. https://t.co/eqA2j9LqxR

— Alex Dwyer (@AlexDwyerKS) October 9, 2024

“As an alumni of The University of Kansas this is extremely disturbing,” Alex Dwyer wrote on X.

“Suggesting that people should be SHOT based on who they voted for is un-American,” he wrote. “This type of rhetoric is reckless, dangerous and goes against the values we share as Americans.”

This is not the first time a University of Kansas professor has expounded on the political beliefs of males. The university previously offered a course called “Angry White Males,” as The Fix reported in 2019.

Nor is this the first time a professor at the university has suggested violence against people who hold different views from his own.

“The blood is on the hands of the #NRA,” then-Professor David Guth wrote in 2013 after a shooting at Washington’s Navy Yard. “Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters.”

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