LATE BREAKING UPDATE: The Coast Guard had to TACO and ‘cave’ on this dumb idea. Per CNN: “The US Coast Guard on Thursday issued a memo that reclassifies swastikas and nooses as “hate symbols,” in a rapid about-face after facing intense scrutiny for a previous policy change which downplayed their display as merely “potentially divisive.”” — eds.
Displaying a swastika will reportedly no longer be explicitly banned in the U.S. Coast Guard, after the Trump administration changed its policy to say that the image used by Nazis and white supremacists is not classified as a “hate symbol” but rather as a “potentially divisive” mark.
It also reportedly removed nooses—a symbol of hate against Black Americans—from its list of hate symbols, according to the Washington Post’s report, which the Department of Homeland Security denied.
“This is an absolute ludicrous lie and unequivocally false,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X. “The [Post] should be embarrassed it published this fake crap.”
The Coast Guard also denied the report.
