That's a noxiously inaccurate caricature of what people in each "camp" believe (to the extent there even are two camps). Practically nobody believes in strict communist-style equal outcomes. The most any significant number want is more equal outcomes, because the distribution of outcomes has clearly diverged from the distribution of any real merit. What the majority want is equal opportunity, just like they say. That's something we don't have, and it's disgusting to appropriate that phrase for those whose beliefs are more accurately described as discriminatory and/or segregationist. It's equally disingenuous to imply that pride in achievement or desire for self-improvement are either distinguishing characteristics of or unique to that group. The vast majority of those you deride as "equal outcome" believers also have those characteristics. If anything, it's the "OK for heritage to determine outcome" crowd who don't believe in achievement and improvement.

People call that kind of twisting of facts and words "cancerous" because it is. You could argue reasonably that attempts to address current inequity are misguided or have gone too far, but not by misrepresenting what people believe.