Sometimes the destruction of a statue or monument is a more powerful statement than the monument itself ever hoped to achieve. I might revise and 'repost' this from three months ago which seems like a relevant contribution.

Have you looked into the iconoclasts, who destroyed countless idols throughout history? We're coming through a second wave of iconoclast inspired violence. Its like burning the great library of Alexandria all over again.

Doesn't matter if the monument hurts someone's safe space entitlements or not - its a monument. Its history, they should be preserved; or as the iconoclasts once did, destroy them out of such strong convictions of their own (I'd prefer to see it as the turning wheel of entropy, though!)