re: Does anybody really care about these statues?

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They sent innocent soldiers to fight and die on their traitorous behalf... That count?

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So did George Washington. Its soldiers and war. Not picking up elderly, women, and children and shipping them off to concentration camps like the Nazi's.

Does Union forces torching southern cities during the War of Northern Aggression count?

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Why? They were slave owning traitors to their country.

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Since the Indians fought the federal government and lost, I think we need to stop work on the sitting bull monument immediately

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I think the thing that bothers me the most is the way in which they change the meanings of these monuments to fit their narrative. It gives them the foot in the door that they need to tear down anything they deem offensive,

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Ding ding ding.

The statues are ending up as the physical representation of a battle over language, ideas, freedom....really big things. Of course no one cares about "the statues" or no rational folks at least. Put them in the museum somewhere, who cares? But the how, and the why of this whole thing? That's disturbing, and it should disturb normal people.

The crazy foot soldiers that are attacking civil war statutes and tearing them down have a lot in common with the Taliban.
The more you know.

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I don't get this whole slippery slope argument of "Is Jefferson next?!" Pointing out that Jefferson owned slaves is not a gotcha. America is a country of ideals, and it's implicitly those ideals we celebrate when we put its figures on a pedestal. We see the atrocities in our history as examples of us falling short of those ideals. But you can't call slavery a shortcoming of the Confederacy's ideals. It was the ideal, as any intellectually honest person who has actually read its constitution knows.

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Jefferson profited mightily from slavery, giving him the freedom to participate in government, and he arguably raped a slave and fathered a child. There will be plenty of ammunition.

You're looking it at from the reasoned position of "the framers did something good, why would anyone go after them." That's the wrong perspective IMO. People who are physically tearing down statutes don't give a shite about good or evil. They want revolution. They don't give a shite about the "ideals" of America now, so why would they give a shite about the antiquated ideals Jefferson celebrated?

This isn't about statues. It's about destroying Western Civilization and the White Race.
I can certainly see why some could be offended by symbols of the CSA, but it won't end there.

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It was the ideal, as any intellectually honest person who has actually read its constitution knows.

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Just like any intellectually honest person who understands the ideals of today's Progs knows exactly where all this is headed.

99% of the Confederate monuments were erected to recognize and memorialize the soldiers that fought and served in the war. The Soldiers. My argument is this bunch has a broader agenda than just erasing the Confederate monuments. After they get them, they will go after the founders, then they will go after anyone that they claim to be racists (Ex. Teddy Roosevelt). Then they will start replacing them with leftist symbols/icons. Then start re-educating the youth that those leftist symbols/icons are what made America great. Those are the people you should look up to. Every nation that has fallen to communism, the same thing happens almost immediately. Soviet Union, Vietnam, China, Zimbabwe. It happened there. This is part of their plan to re-educate to achieve their ultimate goal of redistribution of power and wealth. There was a guess on Tucker last night that was talking about this exact thing.