It's a simplistic analogy, sure.

> to an action that is inherently hurting people?

Which action is that? The original biases which has been hurting people for hundreds of years or the current attempt at bias correction which has been around for, let's say, 5 years?

> The problem here is that you try to compensate injustice done to some people by doing injustice to others.

No. What's happening here is that people are trying to balance the scales by helping up the lower pan and the people on the higher pan are bleating about this "injustice".