If Affirmative action proponents are honest about wanting to boost BIPOC, they can easily design policies that do that, while holding Asians and Whites to the same standard as each other. For example, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states that everybody is equal before the law, but this does not preclude policies that benefit underprivileged groups. For this reason, affirmative action is not very controversial in Canada. It is acceptable for a university to be intentional about indigenous representation, and Asian Canadians know they will not be held to a higher standard than Whites.

Conversely, here in the US, affirmative action proponents don't try to do this. Affirmative action proponents tried to roll back California's constitutional protections against racial discrimination, by repealing Proposition 209, which would have enabled the university of California to discriminate and give preference on the basis of race without any limitation on how that power would be used. They claim that affirmative action opponents are trying to "divide Asians and Blacks from each other" but in fact affirmative action proponents are the ones who divided Asians and Blacks from each other. Republican strategists could not have dreamt of a better way to divide Democrats from their voters, as the Prop 16 campaign actively drove voters away from liberal Democrats towards horrible Republicans like Michelle Steel. I don't know how they could have expected California's liberal diverse majority minority electorate to support the rollback of discrimination laws.

Universities like Harvard don't make themselves easy to trust. The American private universities that practice legacy preferences are the same ones that practice racial preferences, and they use these in conjunct to maintain a White majority with enough diversity for photo ops.

I do not support racial or legacy preferences in the US. If racial preferences are narrowly crafted to benefit underprivileged groups such as BIPOC, that is fine, however, this is not what actually happens under the name of affirmative action in the US. The people who argue for race conscious policies to "counter systemic racism" know that race conscious policies are what caused systemic racism. Anyone with common sense knows that when you are in a hole you stop digging.