An instructor at the University of Kansas has been placed on administrative leave after he was recorded telling his class that men who don’t vote for a female president should be shot.
The instructor, who has not been named, made the comments during a class earlier this semester – a video of which was posted to X on Wednesday morning.
“[If you think] guys are smarter than girls, you’ve got some serious problems,” the instructor said in the video. “That’s what frustrates me. There are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don’t think females are smart enough to be president. We could line all those guys up and shoot them. They clearly don’t understand the way the world works.”
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“Did I say that? Scratch that from the recording,” he added. “I don’t want the deans hearing that I said that.”
Seriously @UnivOfKansas? You’re letting this be said in your classrooms? That men who won’t vote for Kamala Harris for President should be lined up and shot?? @RogerMarshallMD @JerryMoran pic.twitter.com/7hHihxScEg
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) October 9, 2024
In a statement to The Daily Wire, the University of Kansas said the instructor had been placed on leave, “pending further investigation.”
“The instructor offers his sincerest apologies and deeply regrets the situation,” Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, the school’s director for news and media relations, told The Daily Wire in an email. “His intent was to emphasize his advocacy for women’s rights and equality, and he recognizes he did a very poor job of doing so. The university has an established process for situations like this and will follow that process.”
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) shared the video on X, calling it “disturbing.”
“Disturbing video from a @UnivOfKansas professor,” Marshall said. “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.”
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
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach also shared the video.
“KS Regents: We educate leaders, build communities, and make discoveries that change the world,” he wrote. “KU prof: Some males in our society will refuse to vote for a female Prez, because they don’t think females are smart enough to be Prez. We could line all those guys up and shoot them.”
KS Regents: We educate leaders, build communities, and make discoveries that change the world.
KU prof: Some males in our society will refuse to vote for a female prez, because they don’t think females are smart enough to be Prez. We could line all those guys up and shoot them. https://t.co/jqox9uQrPz— Kris W. Kobach (@KrisKobach1787) October 9, 2024
It is unclear whether the instructor would have made the same comments if the Republican presidential nominee was a woman. It is also unclear how he thinks voting for someone just because they are a woman is not, in itself, sexist.
