"My institutional leadership decided to give a neo-Confederate group $2.5 million...."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

YesMalarkeyHat Retweeted

My team at NC State recently lost a position. We also had to go through a super demoralizing "justify your existence" budget exercise.

My institutional leadership decided to give a neo-Confederate group $2.5 million to settle a pretend lawsuit that hadn't actually been filed.

Link to tweet

I'm not sure if this article's authors, @NickAtNews and @mihirzaveri, are active on Twitter

But I want to thank them for one particular sentence, because it prompted me to do some searching – and it turns out the fix was in well ahead of time

Walk with me...

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Link to tweet

[littlemissmartypants]

1. What is this?

The link goes to a twitter profile. I don’t understand the point of the post. What am I missing?

[TwilightZone]

2. The author seems to be conflating UNC and NC State.

I admit I didn't do more than skim the linked tweets and articles, but I can't see what NC State has to do with this.

I also think "funding white nationalism" and settling a lawsuit aren't quite the same thing. As the NY Times article notes, there was much more to the story than the author is noting and the GOP legislature was involved. The lawsuit was also real, not imagined.

That anyone has to deal with Confederate nonsense in 2019 is appalling, but accuracy is still important.