Conservatives, if you really think about it, aren't all monuments to Confederate officers really just huge, pricey participation trophies?

But participation trophies are their "heritage"

Yes. They never should have been erected. But since they are there, they should stay. Those things are, after all, somebody's great great grandfather. And they're a good point of discussion for something a little deeper than the infantile rhetoric that is the latest fad. Robert E. Lee, for instance, seems to have been a great man, and had major difficulty in deciding which army to lead, having been offered top post in both the US and Confederate armies. That's worth study.

yes

They don't think about them that way because they're white supremacists.