“the tearing down of monuments depicting people who represent injustice. We are judging their former actions based on modern-day standards...” If we’re talking

“the tearing down of monuments depicting people who represent injustice. We are judging their former actions based on modern-day standards...” If we’re talking about Confederate generals, it is worth saying that plenty of people at the time said their actions were wrong and they were defending an unjust system. Yet they did so anyway.