They Did It Again

It's amazing, the flap about CAP (the group Samuel Alito belonged to (supposedly) back in his Princeton days). I really can't make myself care. The only thing that gets to me about the whole issue is a mistake that I've heard more than once--most recently by the NPR moderator of a discussion on the Alito hearing--that CAP was against minorities at Princeton.

This is outrageous. CAP didn't care how many minorities (however defined) were at Princeton. They opposed affirmative action, which is quite something else.

I've heard this mistake repeated, and corrected, often enough that I'm beginning to think it's actually a lie.