Is that not the explicit or implicit reasoning people have for this? They call it "reverse racism" because they see it as the best way to reverse historical racism and sexism
Many of the people who support this law do believe you need to be racist to fix past racism. Ibram X. Kendi, for example, said "The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
My question, however, was more about a slippery slope. Once you allow blatant discrimination like this in the law it is only a matter of time until it is used in a way you don't like. Some people think there are millions of white supremcists in the US. If that is the case and racial discrimination becomes legal, will these people still be in support of laws like this when they require whites to be hired? I would guess not.
As this is such an emotionally charged topic, they're likely not thinking with such long term logic. It's more of a reactionary thing
"Racism" was invented by Trotsky: a Bolshevik who applied Karl Marx's ideas about class oppression to race. The idea behind Racism is that you have an oppressing race that is Racist towards the oppressed races. The English dictionaries have attempted to change the definition to mean something more like racial bigotry but that's not how people use it. The behavior of the policy makers who argue for this kind of thing still matches Trotsky's ideas.
If you don't like this then stop using their words, what you want to talk about is called "racial bigotry."
Think about how that person feels knowing they are the most qualified to do a job but don't get that job because they were "born the wrong way."
Imagine what that does to the democratic discriminated against: puts them back for generations.
Trotsky did not invent racism. People discriminated against others due to their race before Trotsky was even born.
I don't care if you want to call it racism or racial bigotry or whatever. It exists and it can happen against all races, by any race, in every country.