If by "hardcore" we are talking about them [url=http://americanlookout.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/confederate-statue-issue.jpg]pandering to a minority of Americans[/url], then yes, yes they are dedicate to those ends. Sixty-two percent, a majority by a large margin when the factor of error is three percent, believe the historical significance outweighs the "offensiveness" of the statues, according to the Democrat leaning Marist Polls. Granted it is not a significantly large poll and has a heavy bias toward political Left, it still displays that most do not agree about the events unfolding with them.

Destroying your own history in an attempt to make people feel better is not going to succeed at anything but destroying your own history, or at best, shoving it into a box somewhere that few people will ever notice or know. Historical statues and relics do not oppress anyone, ever, and any offense associated with them is artificial; they have been there for many, many years and just now are a problem? That is awfully convenient for a political and social movement. This is also ignoring the obvious Islamic State or Soviet Union parallels of destroying historically offensive monuments that go against the ideology, but those cases make themselves.