Perhaps can we honor the deeds without honoring the person? C.S. Lewis said Christians are supposed to hate the sin and love the sinner. Are we sometimes required to do the opposite for good deeds? Love the deed and hate the doer?

We could save a lot of statues with that argument. The statues honor the deed, and recognize the impact it has had on our lives and traditions. The deed was still important and praiseworthy, even if the person who did it was a schmuck, or even a criminal. By this principle, the only statues that would need to go would be those honoring people because of their moral failures, and not in spite of them (such as statues commemorating the fact that someone committed treason in order to keep slaves).

Here's my attempt to wrestle with the distinction you are discussing here. It's not an easy question.

https://teedrockwell.medium.com/save-our-imperfect-moral-heroes-e490dced158c