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But if someone were to walk down the street wearing a swastika (sp?) and said that they were wearing it because it was a "pretty design" (I liked the fraternity/sorority's colors), you wouldn't buy it. You are held accountable for the things which you choose to associate yourself with. Because of this you should know what the colors and symbols that you wear on your body mean.
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Let's not pretend. First off, we KNOW some people just don't CARE what the shirt says! I know quite a few people who don't know a Greek from a Bi-State Bus. People act so haughty sometimes. If you read what true? was saying, you'd know that it DOES have some merit. As far as 'knowing what you wear on your body means', if we were heading that, then all of these clothes with Chinese symbols on them wouldn't be so popular. People wear what they like, and what something means to you may not be the same thing that it means to another person. Case in point: Erykah Badu wears a headwrap b/c she feels that it connects her with her roots. Someone else might wear one because it matches their outfit. That DOESN'T mean that they're an Erykah Badu PERP, does it? You can't assume that everyone is a PERP. Some folks don't know. As far as the situation w/the Omega and the homeless guy...my daddy always told me that Fair Exchange Ain't No Robbery. True that he may have wanted to get the shirt off the homeless guy's back, but what he did was still commendable. The bottom line is that you can't expect people to feel the way that you feel about something that they know little or nothing about. You can't TAKE the shirt off of someone's back. You don't have that right. If that was the case, then paraphrenalia shouldn't be available to the general public. And NO, I am not a perp.