re: #23 May Day! May Day!

Can anyone give me a short breakdown of VDH-CAPS facts? I don’t like VDH ideologically, but that was that until ww’s comment above. What’s his role, was he associating with it in full knowledge, etc.?

The reason I’m “giving benefit of doubt” is this passage in his 2009 defense of Charles:

This just doesn’t sound like someone knowingly involved in a racist venture, perhaps he’s been used? (Faint hope, I know…)

All I can find is some evidence that his association goes back a few years.

We recently formed the first chapter of the Crowdifornia Book Club, a group of educated and concerned women who
meet regularly in Santa Barbara. The first selection read was Mexifornia by CAPS Advisory Board Member, Victor
Davis Hanson. This club was the suggestion of two well known Santa Barbara philanthropists, recruited by Director
of Membership/Development, Marion Stewart.

That’s from CAPS’s 2007 Annual Report (it’s a .pdf file). At the end of that document, he is listed as a member of their Advisory Board, as he is currently. In their Fall 2004 Newsletter, he’s listed the same way in a sidebar (another .pdf).

This is from the Fall 2003 newsletter
(another .pdf):

Save The Date!
CAPS Presents
Victor Davis Hanson, author of
Mexifornia: A State of Becoming*
Luncheon
January 10, 2004
11:30-1:30 PM
Montecito Country Club
920 Summit Road, Montecito, CA 93108
Please send checks for $30 each to:
Californians for Population
Stabilization
1129 State Street, Suite 3D
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
or
Call or email with
credit card information:
[no phone numbers allowed]
info@capsweb.org
Seating is limited so RSVP early!

He’s had 10 years to figure out what CAPS represents. He’s not stupid, although I asserted in a comment above that racism takes defective thinking…. What do you think, Mr. FTAF?