re: Does anybody really care about these statues?

I have no objection to moving statutes to battlegrounds and cemeteries or whatever. I care about "what's next."

I don't want them sandblasting an amazing relief off of Stone Mountain, or going after founders, etc.

If our society generally doesn't want confederate emblems representing our town squares anymore - fine. But fringe liberals aren't doing it to "ease the pain of people of color," they're doing it because it's the next rung on the ladder to tearing down the entire institution.

This isn't a slippery slope argument, I don't think there is public support for the fringe (at least at present). But it's confederate monuments, then founders. Then once the founders are pieces of shite, we can more easily question how they set this country up. Then we're really fricked.