but giving one human being any advantage over another based on race or skin color (something completely out of their control) is heinous and racist, and definitely NOT compliant with Equal Opportunity Employment laws
in fact, if you want to get discrete, technical and practical, "Equal Opportunity" and "Affirmative Action" are disjoint propositions; 100% mutually exclusive. Anyone but a blind pinko leftist could see this is clear as day.
Overall, the (moderate) right wing of today favors maximum societal integration and equality of all US Citizens regardless of what they look like or what private parts they have. The left wants to keep the race card (especially), the feminist card and the LGBT card all in the deck for their own political gains. The June 2015 SCOTUS decision on gay marriage, thus, indirectly benefited the GOP.