Affirmative action is a sacred cause, so if you’re sarcastic about it they don’t like you. Authorities at Southern Methodist University and University of California at Irvine have shut down bake sales put on by conservative students at which beneficiaries of affirmative action were charged less than white male students. At SMU officials called the sale “harassment,” at UC Irvine a violation of the school’s policy of nondiscrimination in student activities.