On Wednesday, some heroic vandals desecrated an already-ugly statue of Confederate general and suspected Ku Klux Klan co-founder Nathan Bedford Forrest with pink paint — and Twitter, naturally, is in an uproar of approval.
The vandalism came just a week after Memphis' city council voted unanimously to sell parks bearing Confederate statues to a private group, who then had one of the statues removed that night.
Described as the one "Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject" by Atlas Obscura, the statue was designed by Jack Kershaw, a founder of the white supremacist League of the South who once defended the man who killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Kershaw once was quoted in a New Orleans newspaper defending his creation by saying "somebody needs to say a good word for slavery."
"Guys, you really don't have to vandalize that one," one user wrote in response to the vandalism. "The sculptor beat you to the punch."
"I don’t understand NOT vandalizing symbols deifying men and women who fought and killed Americans in order to keep human beings in chains," another tweeted.
Check out some of the best responses below.