Yeah it's been a bit extreme I agree. Most people consider it way over the top and it's just trying to prevent controversy until everything settles down. I believe, unlike Song of the South, that these things will be restored in a few months time. I pray eventually we get to a point where we learn what's appropriate (Slavery memorials) and inappropriate (confederate statues of questionable providence). Also learning that a subject should be understood as a part of its time and context and what made some men remarkable like Washington and others. Even something as blatantly racist as Song of the South is important culturally to understanding and has a place, within the proper context and educational purposes beyond "don't do this".
There are better ways to teach those lessons than airing
Song of the South, though. Without going too deeply into it, a goodly amount of American History as taught simply glosses over the bad. Even with Black History Month being a thing for decades, some people (of all ethnicities) are only this year hearing about the Tulsa Massacre...not to mention the literal dozens of other massacres and similar events, like the levee bombings of 1927, the killing of black politicians after the a Civil War, or the defrauding of Black farmers and GIs (and the stuff that happened to other minorities as well).*
Personally, I‘d rather see less emphasis on putting film, music, sculpture, etc, in their proper context and more emphasis in actually teaching the context. Most non-bigots will agree that things were bad and got better. But currently most people don’t understand HOW bad things were, nor that some truly nasty things
haven’t ended yet. IOW, most people are only looking at the surfaces of the issues- until you start digging deep, those wounds aren’t going to heal well.
* And I bet you’d find a similar downplaying of the bad in most countries’
scolding schooling history curricula.)
Edit: “scolding“ was a typo!