“Imagine if a nazi concentration guard or something was the inventor of the internet, ”
Depending on the statue, The comparison doesnt hold.
A better comparison would be “Imagine if a nazi concentration guard or something was NOT the inventor of the internet, ”
Robert E Lee, Jefferson Davis et al are glorified for one reason and one reason only their role in leading a racist traitorous movement. If they invented the internet but just happened to be on the Confderacy then your argument would work.
As to those who support glorifying racist tratirors:
In 2001 Dov Hikind led a push to have Arafat’s statue removed from a wax statue museum (note not from a Public square glorifiying heroes) maybe they were just commemorating his kefiyah wearing skills of somone who just happened dabble in murder of Jews
Was he wrong?
More recently Hikind called for the removal of Petain’s name from the canyon of heroes. In spite of the fac t that it commemorated a parade held in Petain’s honor in 1931 well before his role in Vichy France.
Is he wrong?