A University of Michigan professor is under fire for comments he made after conservative icon Charlie Kirk was murdered on a Utah campus this week, posting on X that while “violence isn’t the answer, it is a solution.”

“Even if you believe violence isn’t the answer, it is a solution, especially to the violent conditions and violent rhetoric spewed by empowered people that create them,” posted School of Education Assistant Professor Charles H.F. Davis.

The Midwesterner reported the scholar then doubled down on his take of Kirk’s assassination Wednesday at Utah Valley University.

“Davis reposted, ‘Charlie Kirk is a reminder of two things: your words don’t skip consequences, they just collect interest. And lastly, empathy has boundaries. Good luck,'” the outlet reported.

“Among several others, Davis also reposted, ‘He spent his entire life disparaging immigrants, disrespecting women, and blaming black folks, only to get shot in one of the whitest places on earth.'”

After the professor’s social media posts were heavily circulated, some were outraged and called for his termination.

Davis has a history of heated rhetoric. As The College Fix reported in 2017, Davis — then a professor at USC — posted on social media obscenities directed toward President Donald Trump, calls for whiteness to be “destroyed,” and the promotion of violence against the “white supremacist heterosexist patriarchy.”

The Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday that Davis’ research has been funded by the Gates Foundation: “According to Davis, he has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in research funding from the Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Spencer Foundation, the National Academy of Education, and the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity.”

According to UMSalary.com, David earns almost $100,000 annually.

University of Michigan’s media relations division did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The College Fix.

It told The Midwesterner: “In accordance with the university’s Institutional Neutrality policy, the university does not take positions on matters not directly connected to university governance. Faculty members are free to speak and debate issues of the day; but, to be clear, those individual expressions do not represent the views of the university.”