Pro/regressive are terms that are highly contextual. Progress for progress’ sake alone can move anything forward. I would argue the progression of the attention economy has been extremely negative for most of the human race, yet that is “progressing.”

In this instance, it’s just claiming turf for the political movement in the US that has spent the last century:

- inventing scientific racism and (after that was debunked) reinventing other academic pretenses to institutionalize race-base governance and society

- forcibly sterilizing people with mental illnesses until the 1970s, through 2005 via coercion, and until the present via lies, fake studies, and ideological subversion

- being outspokenly antisemitic

Personally, I think it’s a moral failing we allow such vile people to pontificate about virtues without being booed out of the room.