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:

Out of curiosity I went to the site today. All I discovered different was a change in emphasis, but not necessarily attitude. He still is strongly anti-jihad; the difference is that he now worries just as much about creationism, paleo-right tribalism, and the white supremacists’ piggy-banking onto efforts to stop radical Islam. Those are legitimate worries for any liberal (as in 19th-century liberal) minded. Almost monthly I am smeared by the far far right for defending the Anglo-American effort in World War II or support for the melting-pot traditional of racial integration and intermarriage. So I understand some of his concerns.

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