I agree, although I find it to be a copout. It's like when someone is losing an argument so they say "oh, I'm not talking about morality, I'm just saying how the world is".

The task for anti-progressives is to deconstruct the progressive narrative. Just as anti-racists aims to deconstruct "Whiteness", we need to deconstruct "racism". That doesn't mean claiming racism is good, or racism doesn't exist, but rather showing that the way progressives conceptualize racism is wrong and exaggerated.