Perhaps GP meant that the end result is a net good, since now it's in the books that it was positively, explicitly struck down? (Rather than being ambiguous or assumed, with no records etc.)
Anyway, reading sibling comments it seems like it's not that simple either way.
No it's not. People should be fired for proposing such things as they breach human rights.
It's like being happy that someone proposed genocide of all men over 60 to save on pensions and that the idea didn't pass.