The people who live in towns with Confederate "hero" statues are the people who are calling to have them removed. They don't want to look at them. They believe there are better figures to glorify.
The people who lived in Afghanistan didn't ask for one of the biggest, oldest religious statues in the world to be demolished. That was done by the Taliban, who were forcefully taking over the country. They were removing religious iconography so they could install their own religious system of law.
I hope you can see that these two things are not equal at all. It's the same as people saying that protesting Nazis is the same as being a Nazi.
The people who lived in Afghanistan didn't ask for one of the biggest, oldest religious statues in the world to be demolished. That was done by the Taliban, who were forcefully taking over the country. They were removing religious iconography so they could install their own religious system of law.
I hope you can see that these two things are not equal at all. It's the same as people saying that protesting Nazis is the same as being a Nazi.
