its honestly bad faith to argue statues arent a celebration of whatever the statue is about. theres never been a statue erected of a person considered evil by the group paying for the statue. its not like any american society or local government funded monuments of stalin or lenin or Riddler (outside of fringe groups). similarly, we dont make monuments commemorating Hardcore Gamers, only the victims.
if the point of confederate statues was to remind of the darker parts of american history, it would focus on the victims rather than the people who victimized them.