> Anyway, diversity statements were never about being a political litmus test. Diverse hiring pools are not a white filter. These are just something butthurt people say when they get an outcome they don't like. This seems more a case of a failed scientist being rejected for a tenure track role and blaming discrimination instead of his middling research agenda.

hence why Asian community sued multiple universities for discrimination.

No, those lawsuits were about affirmative action in student admissions, not faculty hiring.