Regarding where to draw the line on statues: generally speaking a very easy line to draw is “Was the statue erected during a period of domestic terror as a means of further intimidating the citizens targeted by that terrorism?” T
So now we are comparing General Lee to Bin Laden?
The domestic terror campaign I’m talking about was kicked off when Reconstruction ended, and lasted about a hundred years (i.e. the period when the statues were erected). I’m not sure General Lee was involved in any of that.
EDIT: If I were to compare Lee to any contemporary figure, I’d say the best match would be one of the Iraqi Republican Guard leaders who went on to fight for ISIS, not because of a great deal of ideological allegiance (the Baathists were not Islamists), but because that’s the way the sectarian split of Iraq went.