The underlying premise of affirmative action is that blacks are inferior and therefore cannot be held to the same standards as everyone else.
Wrong — the underlying premise is that the only reason heterosexual Christian white males rose to supremacy is because they unfairly oppressed those not of their in-group; that Pygmies would probably have put one of their own on the moon on the same timetable, more or less, if not for honky unfairness, and that therefore extra help must be given to “minorities” to make up the disparity.
It’s a false premise, because the fact that blacks and hispanics don’t and can’t pass a firefighter’s promotion exam, even after hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent hiring diversity consultants to write it so questions are free of any trace of cultural bias, shows the actual inferiority which delusional cucks and agenda-driven leftists deny.