It would have been helpful to answer the question as stated. Not all societies have affirmative action and my polity doesn’t. Depending on ones background assumptions, affirmative action could be seen as restoring equality, or creating inequality. You seem to have assumed a take on that without arguing it. It would have been helpful to argue it, and not to treat “society” as synonymous with “US society”.
It would have been helpful to answer the question as stated. Not all societies have affirmative action and my polity doesn’t. Depending on ones background assumptions, affirmative action could be seen as restoring equality, or creating inequality. You seem to have assumed a take on that without arguing it. It would have been helpful to argue it, and not to treat “society” as synonymous with “US society”.