Is it wrong to remove Confederate statues?

Removing these monuments and statues seems like white washing the past to me. There have even been significant calls to tear down the statue of Christopher Columbus in New York because of the way he treated natives. Forgetting your past, no matter how dark it is, is not the way to deal with issues today. What do you think?

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Xuan12 · 31-35, M

By this time, many of them have been around so long as to become cultural artifacts. If they had been removed long ago it might be different, but that's not the case. I think the best solution would have been to place them in museums or in a monument park in order to preserve the value they've come to have, without leaving them in a myriad of public places where to many they are troublesome. Neither side seems to think that's an option though.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Xuan12 They're really not that old. The one in Charlottesville is from the 1920s. They're fairly ahistorical as is.