As for Washington and Jefferson, it would not surprise me if some wish to tear down their statues. They were slave owners. I’m sure some view them as nothing but slave owning racists.
Sure, that’s a view of it. A distinction most make, though, is that neither Washington nor Jefferson were so married to the idea of slavery that they were willing to murder US soldiers over it–or if they were, they never actually had the opportunity to prove it. Even Lee’s “the reluctant traitor” image doesn’t wash that part clean. Washington and Jefferson statues also generally were not placed around the nation as part of a broader effort to intimidate the local population into submission (i.e. lynching and the whole hundred-year reign of terror thing), which is why we have the Confederate ones in the first place. It’s more important to me to look at why the statue is there than who the statue is of, if that makes sense.
Confederate statues are, to me, more akin to statues of Timothy McVeigh than Washington or Jefferson. It’s no coincidence that many of the people at this march defending the Confederate statues were also McVeigh admirers–and not particular admirers of Washington or Jefferson.