The push to purge Confederate memorials from public spaces is a wholly current fashion, driven almost entirely by people who have never served a day in uniform in their lives and probably look down on those who do.

Even more so, its driven almost entirely on extreme hatred of the people who live in these areas. The media over the decades has bred a nearly genocidal hatred of any white southerner in most of the Left (and truly most of the world), to a point where anything they like is considered evil and to be hated.

The Confederacy just has the thin veneer of "racism" that they don't even have to hold back their raw rage in attacking it.