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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Yeah, I wish people wouldn't get caught up on arguing the ridiculous like that. There's a good chance those sections will get ten times the attention of the good and relevant sections because lots of people don't like McWhorter
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It's not just that, though - by spending so much time defending the name, he drew more attention to that part of the story. Oddly self-defeating way to structure the piece.
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I was quite perplexed when I finally read the story, because I was like, "Fredric March was amazing! Why didn't you leave it there instead of spending all this time on the name of this frat?"
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