Double bind?

With anti racism activists wanting to remove statues from public places of people they claim were racist, and therefore too offensive by modern standards to have such monuments, one wonders what they would make of someone like Matthew Flinders (1774-1814). Flinders completed the first circumnavigation of the Australian continent, and even named the continent. He has national parks, towns, an island, streets, and a university named after him, and a famous statue outside St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia.  

In so doing, he contributed to the colonisation of Australia, which caused the dispossession of the indigenous people, the consequences of which Australia is still dealing with today. That should tarnish his name, surely. This should be a compelling reason to remove the statue. 

On the other hand, based on the fact that his private correspondence contains love letters that Flinders wrote to another man, historians, such as David Hunt, author of Girt: An Unauthorised History of Australia, have suggested that he was gay. Removing the statue of Matthew Flinders would send mixed messages. It would be a strong statement against colonial oppression, but also open to interpretation as homophobic.