I don't know that I buy the symbol created connections.

You could just as easily continue the traditions without the symbol, unless it was the entirety of the traditions themselves that was voted out?

I mean, I agree with your overall point, I just don't think any specific symbol is really that important, well outside of a few notable exceptions.

To me it's like saying the fact that I can't display the word "Hello", which is itself a form of symbolism, is somehow going to destroy the community. If the community is destroyed, it wasn't the symbol, or lack thereof, that did it.