No I understood the framing. But if you privilege all groups except one, you're not uplifting but discriminating.
Basically all competitive sports in the US work like this
If you win the championship, you get the worst draft picks for next season
Do you believe they discriminate against winning teams and reduced the quality of the sport? The Yankees definitely complained a lot about it
Are you just talking hypothetically about an abstract harm that might occur in an imaginary world or do you think that's what DEI is?