The statues exist now though. Nobody is going to throw Columbus into prison, they just don't want him to be glorified.I disagree. It's not right for us with our "more evolved" views to apply our standards to people who existed hundreds of years before us when societal norms were compeltely different.
And unless the statues were build in the same timeframe the people lived, the same argument you just made can be applied to builders of statues as well.
Because then both acts of building it and tearing it down are revisionism.
At one point in time people think he should have a statue, at another point not. Maybe in 200 years people will build him a new one, who knows. That is how it goes.
Your opinion is he should have one, and that is okay.
Not sure who is pretending that, but of course that would be a false assumption.People today like to pretend that we're finished making mistakes and that simply couldn't be farther from the truth.