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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Sep 2021

    1. In the New York Times, James McWhorter wrote about the late actor Fredric March's membership of a fraternity calling itself the Ku Klux Klan. McWhorter's piece is partly effective but undermined by the mental habits of reflexive contrarianism.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Sep 2021

        2. The strongest point of McWhorter's piece was the call for a holistic understanding of March's life: he really was a life-long passionate supporter of civil rights, with the KKK frat membership an anomaly. But then McWhorter wants to also minimize the frat.pic.twitter.com/ecdwYbkAo8

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Sep 2021

        3. The strange thing here is that the main argument (March's really stellar life) is plausible & sufficient in and of itself, that McWhorter didn't need to make the absurd claim that frat could call itself the Klu Klux Klan just because "boys" love the "k" sound.pic.twitter.com/g4w8NivAqj

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Sep 2021

        4. McWhorter's piece shows the degree to which the professional anti-cancel culture people share the faults of the people they criticize: a one-dimensional & melodramatic view of history & inability to see nuance. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/a-holistic-history?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

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      1. druid dude‏ @fugitive_druid 22 Sep 2021
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        you mean John?

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      1. Ryan Perks‏ @ryandavidperks 22 Sep 2021
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        John McWhorter

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      2. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 22 Sep 2021

        Buildings get renamed all the time. If the UW community is put off by March having been in a Klan, it’s their prerogative to change the name.

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      1. Richard Taskin‏ @richard_taskin 23 Sep 2021
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        Somefimes when you are shooting fish in a barrel you miss.

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