Some facts about Alito's CAP(Concerned Alumni of Princeton):

[babylonsister]

http://www.savethecourt.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=mwK0JbNTJrF&b=865791&ct=1776319

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CAP was a notorious right-wing group (now defunct) one of whose founders was a classmate of Alito’s. In May 1973, a CAP founder wrote in its magazine, effectively suggesting an exclusionary quota: “Why should not a goal of 10%-20% women and minorities be appropriate for Princeton’s long term strength and future?” <1> A decade later, at around the time Alito was touting his membership, CAP was still at it:

* In the February 1985 issue of Prospect, CAP asked: “why is the Gay Alliance a student organization? Princeton should not recognize groups based solely on sexual preference; certainly the University does not (and would not) recognize or fund a Straight Student Association or a Bestiality Society. CAP challenges Bowen to announce that Princeton would recognize and provide University space and money for the Ku Klux Klan group or the Nazi group.” <2> The January 1984 Prospect included a brief that referred to members of the Gay Alliance of Princeton as “campus lispers.” <3>
* In June 1984, Prospect published “A Lesson for Sally,” a report of the death in a mining accident of a female coal miner who had obtained her job after a successful lawsuit contesting sex discrimination. The “Lesson” ended with the chilling remark: “Sally Frank, take note.” <4> Frank was a member of the class of 1980 and was well known to students and alumni for having “successfully sued to open the doors” of the remaining all-male eating clubs at Princeton to women. <5>
* An essay in the November 1983 issue of Prospect “In Defense of Elitism,” began:

People nowadays just don’t seem to know their place. Everywhere one turns black and hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they’re black and hispanic, the physically handicapped are trying to gain equal representation in professional sports, and homosexuals are demanding that government vouchsafe them the right to bear children. <6>

Examples like these have prompted Eyal Press in The Nation to ask:

Is the Princeton graduate slated to replace the first female Supreme Court Justice proud of his affiliation with an organization that attempted to prevent women and minorities from receiving the same education he did? If not, why did he flaunt his membership in it? What does this say about his character, and about the kind of place he would ultimately like America to be? <7>

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. And right wingers say we are elitist

because we liberals, in the main, know how to spell, know a smattering of grammar and history. I'm a college graduate, but I don't consider myself superior to someone who did not attend college, especially if that someone is a craftsman or mechanic who can do stuff I can't do. From what I've read about CAP, they think they are better just because of their education, their gender, and their skin color.

[EFerrari]

4. If anything, college taught me to appreciate different kinds

of intelligence, different kinds of skill.

Calling liberals "elitists" is just silly. We're not the ones that worship white monied men.

[kaygore]

2. But isn't this what defines Republicans? Elitists

[DJ MEW]

3. Where is N.O.W.on this issue?

It seems like N.O.W. would be all over this. I have not heard anything about them trying to block Alito's confirmation.

I stood with them in protest of Wal Mart and I would like to think that they are standing with me in protest of Alito.

[EFerrari]

5. They may have been asked to step back because it would

have been too easy for the Reich wing to say only radicals are against Alito.

And if that happened and if they did, they were wrong.

[DJ MEW]

6. and I was hoping

for a feminist uprising to come in and crush any potential for this nomination. There is every reason to do it, this guy is the type of evil that they are the best at fighting.

[EFerrari]

7. I know. I'm so tired of Stepford on parade. n/t