A particularly perverse effect of reverse discrimination is that it encourages its supposed beneficiaries to become or remain dependent on official crutches. This denies them an essential incentive for progress, and has already created a culture of dependency which only worsens inequality. It is racist to suggest that other minorities are incapable of the same. Politically, reverse discrimination is a disaster. Its unfairness is the best marketing ploy the KKK could dream of.
Reverse discrimination gives a rational basis to racism.
Reverse discrimination has deeply poisoned race relations. It can also be perverted to allow the racist targetting of successful minorities. In Eastern Europe, quotas against the successful Jewish minority were the first step in the road to the Holocaust. Reverse discrimination is not solely an American phenomenon. It is incredible that such a deeply unpopular policy could be shoved down the throats of the people in a democracy.