If Ms Finney, really does not want more lives lost over the statue issue, she would not have written this piece encouraging that civil war statues be taken down.  It is an amazing sort of blindness to cause and effect that she displays.  Humans are what humans are.  Display tolerance and acceptance and win folks over, rip away things that are dear to them and stir up the hornets nest.  Liberals supporting the statue removal have put their emotional needs ahead of others and therefore engendered a war.  While the war is nominally about statues, at its core, it is about one people telling another people how to live their lives, telling them how to think, etc.