Mr. Wright is now suing Cornell University, alleging that he faced discrimination when it sought to hire a tenured professor in their Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. We previously covered how the Supreme Court made it very difficult for colleges to practice affirmative action in college admissions. But we are struck by the fact that once again, affirmative action is allegedly working against many kinds of Asians—and we think that was crucial in turning the courts further against affirmative action, because it exposed affirmative action as the grubby race-based spoils system that it was. AdvertisementIn any case, here is Mr. Wright announcing the lawsuit:🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve taken legal action against Cornell University for racial discrimination. Whatever one feels about affirmative action, faking being in a minority in order to steal an affirmative action seat from an actual minority is low—doubly so for a leftist politician who explicitly supports affirmative action.