Wow it's one thing to dislike the statue but to graffiti it is another. Someone spent all that time working on those statues just for someone to ruin their work.

That being said I find the argument that it is "heritage" to be a myth. The civil war was pure and simple about the state right to keep fellow human beings enslaved. I'm a big history buff and big into miltiary history in particular, however as an immigrant and naturalized citizen I cannot grasp why people hold on to romanticized version of traitors that stood up to the elected authority. The only other analogy i can think of right now is that Nazism isn't about heritage, its about hate.

Frankly that doesn't matter. Not sure people would be outraged if people graffitied a statute of Hitler....

To a degree I agree/get what you mean, but just because something doesn't explicitly say something on it, like a sign saying slavery is good, doesn't mean it doesn't represent that. We've already hit godwin's law, so I'll counter with this. The Nazi flag doesn't say anything about genocide on it, but it does represent that to a degree.

What does tearing down a statue that represents slavery censor? I highly doubt the mass majority of Americans will forget that period of our history any time soon, just as I doubt the German people, let alone the world, will forget the holocaust and the disgusting people involved in it. I don't know why you think I'm defending anybody, but I can tell you that whenever I see a nazi flag or swastika emblazoned in a public place let alone if there was a statue to hitler or nazi propaganda posters up in public, I am certainly offended and repulsed because my people were victims of that tragedy.

Edit: To be a little clearer, I would be more offended by a nazi statue/sanctioned propaganda than by swastika graffiti