I place removing monuments in the same category as book burning.
Book burning is always associated with the Nazis, and it is therefore a bad thing. I have always thought so, but one day I saw a comment from someone who told me what books the Nazis were burning.
It was all stuff about gender fluidity and how homosexuality was normal, "minor attracted person's stuff, and so forth.
We have been led to believe that the books being burned were essays about the rights of man or political philosophy. Nope, it was disgusting stuff like they are trying to put into our libraries nowadays.
Made me start to look at the whole idea differently.
I don't know if what the commenter said is true, but if it is, it shines an entirely different light on it, doesn't it?