I think the author was being facetious. It’s welcome humor for those of us who are upset that 150 years after the civil war, the soldiers who fought to preserve

I think the author was being facetious. It’s welcome humor for those of us who are upset that 150 years after the civil war, the soldiers who fought to preserve the system of slavery are still glorified in our public spaces. But, if someone takes the article seriously and and brings down one of those awful edifices? More power to them. Those monuments are truly hideous.