When someone (Alito) shows you who they are, believe them.
from 2006:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jan-12-na-princeton12-story.html
WASHINGTON —
In 1972, at the height of one of the most tumultuous times in higher education, a group of Princeton University graduates staged their own form of protest against the changes they saw around them.
As college campuses roiled with demonstrations over the Vietnam War, feminism and free speech, Concerned Alumni of Princeton -- co-chaired by wealthy alumni from the classes of 1921 and 1930 -- had a narrower agenda: fighting the admissions policy that opened classrooms to women and minorities.
Defunct for almost 20 years and largely forgotten, the organization became a central issue Wednesday in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Samuel A. Alito Jr., who graduated from Princeton in 1972.
It was not “because of any attitude toward women or minorities” that he would have joined the group, Alito told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “What bothered me about the Princeton administration ... was the treatment of ROTC” -- which Alito joined as an undergraduate and which lost its contract with the university during the Vietnam protests.
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Last November, the college paper, the Daily Princetonian, noted that in the first issue of Prospect -- the Concerned Alumni of Princeton magazine -- founder Shelby Cullom Davis had written of his Princeton ideal. It was embodied, he wrote, in the alumni he saw at his father’s 50th reunion -- “a body of men, relatively homogenous in interests and backgrounds, who had known and liked each other over the years during which they had contributed much in spirit and substance to the greatness of Princeton.”
Princeton began admitting women as undergraduates in 1969, when Alito was a sophomore. In a fundraising letter a few years later, according to research by the liberal People for the American Way, Concerned Alumni of Princeton urged “a more traditional undergraduate population” and a quota that would limit the female population to 1,000 out of 4,400.
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So, during the hearings, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy began drilling nominee Sammy about his membership in this club. On cue, wifey runs out of the hearing in tears and all the white men senators and the MEdia get rubbery knees.
As for Princeton, it admitted in 2020 its decades of endemic racism, and the Trump administration blasted them with an investigation for admitting it. I guess it made some white people uncomfortable.
https://apnews.com/article/discrimination-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-archive-b51043edeee8b7899c26bfaec88e8eec
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/alitos-cap-connection/
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10830375