I'll preface this with I'm not american, and I'm from a country that historically doesn't have a problem with racism against the minorities these policies affec

I'll preface this with I'm not american, and I'm from a country that historically doesn't have a problem with racism against the minorities these policies affect. These policies always seem a bit ridiculous to me. I've done nothing to discriminate against these people, so why am I being treated worse because of the actions of people I had nothing to do with? Affirmative action policies are discriminative, just not to the group they're targeted at helping. Why can't there just be equality and leave it at that? My personal opinion is you can't discriminate based on information you don't have, so universities/employers etc shouldn't get information on a candidates race/gender/whatever that's not relevant, because that way they can't have discriminated using it