The statue wasn’t contentious until some crybaby decided to make an issue of it.
There it stood for YEARS and nobody had a problem with it until now. When those who want to control everything decided to try to control everything.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten,
every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by
day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an
endless present in which the Party is always right.”
...George Orwell,
“1984”
It's not about statues. It's about bending the knee. Submission. The Left lost an election they believed their hearts they should have won. In fact, they believe they were robbed of their rightful victory. Now they're finding other ways to force their will on us.
Statues of Confederate soldiers are low hanging fruit. There's few people who will stand shoulder to shoulder next to Richard Spencer's and David Duke's Nazi-Klan retards to defend them.
Most importantly, the Left is using the monument issue to build a strategy. After the statues are gone and they've compiled a list of lessons learned, the Left will move on to bigger and better things. Then we'll start seeing websites disappear. That's what's coming next.