The fact that people will see what they want to see in this symbol is precisely why I wouldn't put one up in my yard. While I may understand what it is meant to represent, there are too many people out there that don't. I don't need a fallout like this one coming to my doorstep. If someone wants to put one up in their yard, I have no objection to that. When the community freaks out about the burning cross they put up, I'll do my best to explain that there isn't any need to label that person a racist. But I'm not going to feel sorry for the person for what they end up going through.
One of the first rules of communication is that the message understood by the receiver is really the only message that matters.
And Elphs, I love you, but you're wrong. It is entirely possible that the people working for the AFA couldn't catch this similarity this bears to the KKK symbol. You seem to be forgetting that the AFA is a collection of some of the worlds greatest morons that hates anyone that doesn't submit to their brand of Christianity.
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