After a few hundred years of race/gender based policies working in favor of whites/males, I don't know what else we would expect from a deliberate effort to reverse it. You can't expect to play a game, give one team an advantage for the first half, give neither team an advantage in the second half, and call it a fair game at the end. Yeah, it sucks for individuals in the meantime, but we were simply never going to achieve an equal opportunity society without taking from the group who was unfairly advantaged.
If it stays this way for an extended period of time, then yeah, we will end up creating the inverse problem, but for now I don't know what else anyone expected. We just need to keep an eye on it, use science, don't hide any data, and have a well informed plan on how to ease back affirmative action as we determine that we have succeeded in undoing centuries of unfairness.
If it stays this way for an extended period of time, then yeah, we will end up creating the inverse problem, but for now I don't know what else anyone expected. We just need to keep an eye on it, use science, don't hide any data, and have a well informed plan on how to ease back affirmative action as we determine that we have succeeded in undoing centuries of unfairness.