The current narrative about why Ilya Shapiro's tweet was inartful is not why it was inartful

 He might have done a little better job explaining it himself, but perhaps he didn't want to make his situation any stickier than it already was. 

Let's review exactly what it was that he said:

[Now former] Georgetown University Law Center professor Ilya Shapiro . . . 

fac[ed] criticism for tweeting that Biden “doesn’t fit into latest intersectionality hierarchy so we’ll get lesser black woman” . . . Following the tweet, Shapiro did apologize while under fire, calling his remarks “inartful.”

Now, it seems pretty obvious that he was saying that there are far more qualified black women than Ketanji Brown Jackson that Biden could have considered for a Supreme Court seat. Yes, there's a broader context, which is that he didn't much care for Biden using a demographic criterion in the first place for selecting a nominee.  But his specific remark was predicated on acknowledging that Biden was going to go forward with an identity-politics approach to the pick.

But such fine points of reality were of no help to the professor as the opprobrium came raining down on his head:

Outraged Georgetown students and faculty demanded his removal and ultimately, they got what they wanted. Shapiro was set to begin his job at the university this month after the investigation concluded but he decided to quit. He wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about his decision.

More on Shapiro’s decision from Insider:

Georgetown Law concluded its investigation and reappointed Shapiro to his role on June 2, but he ended up quitting on Monday, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed announcing his resignation.

“Dean William Treanor cleared me on the technicality that I wasn’t an employee when I tweeted, but the [report’s findings] implicitly repealed Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy,” he wrote.

“Instead of participating in that slow-motion firing, I’m resigning.”

Since this guy's career has been completely upended, keeping the record straight about this is kind of a big deal. Unaddressed misinterpretations can set precedents.