They will never stop. People who think they can appease the left are fools.
I have been saying that since Political Correctness first appeared in the early 90s. PC Revisionists put forth the “all about slavery” myth which had not been the majority view in Academia.
I distinctly remember telling everybody that it would never stop at the South’s history and symbols. That Leftists would move on to Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Patrick Henry, George Mason, the Stars and Stripes, etc. All of those people were slaveowners. Slavery existed for 90 years under the stars and stripes and thousands of slave ships flew the stars and stripes while plying their trade.
So no, you cannot just cast off all slavery/racism by falsely trying to project it exclusively onto the South as the Leftists have plainly been trying to do. These were always national problems.
Conservatives who went along with this and even worse, those who joined in in trying to trash the South’s history and heritage were idiots and/or appeasers. Did they think that crocodile they were feeding was not going to turn on them one day? Fools. The Neocons (aka warlike Leftists) like the Straussians have been the absolute worst about it.