The idea that there are Confederate statues ANYWHERE in America is pretty weird. A group of states that attempted a failed succession and then lost the ensuring war and rejoined the union, yet they still have monuments to the leaders of the failed rebellion and flag integration on state flags 160 years later. Is that a common thing anywhere else in the world?
What would be a historical equivalent? I mean, it wasn't technically a rebellion, they had no interest in overthrowing the Union, just leaving it.
The monuments in both the North and South are generally for their State "heroes" and were erected during a period in which the States were still emphasized.
After the Franco-Prussian War, the French schools taught that Alsace-Lorraine was occupied, not part of Germany, and would be returned to France.
As part of this too, at some point people get weird about taking down/changing stuff that's just been around for their whole life. Like who's on the money. I mean, who gives a shit who's on the $20 bill, or any of the money, yet you'd think it's the end of the Republic to change it or even release an alternative version.
Gordon Hayward has a Nazi haircut, just sayin'.
Plus he plays Starcraft 2 and League of Legends obsessively, makes you wonder what his views on Gamergate, the origins of white supremacy as a movement, are.