The blog post was meant to shock.

“If someone did not commit sexual assault in high school, then he is not a member of the male sex,” wrote Mitchell Langbert, an associate professor of business at Brooklyn College. He posted it on his personal blog just two hours after last Thursday’s hearing into allegations of sexual assault by Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.

Dr. Langbert continued.

“In the future, having committed sexual assault in high school ought to be a prerequisite for all appointments, judicial and political. Those who did not play spin-the-bottle when they were 15 should not be in public life.”

Those comments have made Dr. Langbert a new lightning rod in the debate that has consumed the nation in the wake of Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination.

On Thursday, hundreds of students gathered outside of the campus’s grand clock tower to demand that Dr. Langbert be fired.