This is in bad taste, and you made excuses for it.
Even in this statement you say “isn’t strictly,” which is admitting that it is. So let’s talk about your mental gymnastics; yours is truly insane.
The truth, even though you will deny it. The noose is a powerful and inflammatory symbol of hate, racial violence, and intimidation, primarily associated with the history of lynching and the subjugation of African Americans in the United States. It is comparable in the emotions it evokes to the swastika for Jewish people.
@Karacal, yes, I am aware of that, but I have not forgotten his defense of racial imagery. If he wishes to speak of mental gymnastics, then he really had a workout that day.