It depends on who you ask. I’m guessing a good number of conservatives would say banning the confederate flag doesn’t accomplish anything good, overall. The question is whether it is more good for society to ban the flag and risk bothering the racists and lost causers ever so slightly, versus not ban the flag and continue to bother people of color.
As for me personally, I don’t follow NASCAR but I see how it could bother some people of color.
You would use similar analysis for the question of whether it is ‘woke’ to remove confederate statues. It comes down to whether removing the statue appears to improve society, but actually doesn’t.
~Max