For the second time in recent weeks, a University of South Alabama professor, identified by students as Department of Mathematics and Statistics assistant professor Joshua Lioi, approached the Turning Point USA tabling event, apparently to confront students with leftist talking points and crude name-calling.
However, this time, those students were ready with a camera set up to catch him in the act, and the national organization that shared the video provided support.
A source with knowledge of both incidents said when Lioi visited the table for the first time, he referred to Charlie Kirk as "the neck guy" and made a finger gun motion to his neck, before turning his sights on a young woman who is a student and attempting to shame her for being a member of the organization.
In the second visit caught on camera, the professor approached the TPUSA table and, after a brief back-and-forth discussion about the topic of conversation, the Second Amendment, he asked if he could understand the premise of the question.
He told the students, "I understand you're a fascist propaganda organization."
When students responded and engaged him in conversation, one student noted that the first thing that fascist governments do is disarm the population. Lioi was asked what the first thing Hitler did during his rise to power, and he responded with, "He, uh, jailed communists."
