Coast Guard to Stop Classifying Swastikas, Nooses as Hate Symbols

Seismic change is within the works on the U.S. Coast Guard … the navy service department simply drafted a brand new coverage that not classifies swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.

Instead, the Coast Guard will think about the swastika — lengthy the image of Nazis and endlessly linked to the Holocaust — as “potentially divisive” … in keeping with paperwork obtained by The Washington Post.

The sweeping adjustments go into impact subsequent month … when the noose and the Confederate flag can even be downgraded from hateful to doubtlessly divisive.

It’s all a part of a brand new hazing and harassment coverage on the Coast Guard … and there are new limits on the deadlines for Coast Guard members to formally report shows of swastikas and nooses amongst personnel.

The Coast Guard falls below the Department of Homeland Security, which is headed by Kristi Noem.

Previous Coast Guard coverage explicitly stated the swastika, noose and Confederate flag had been “symbols whose display, presentation, creation or depiction would constitute a potential hate incident.” That coverage was suspended inside days of President Trump‘s first day of workplace, when there was a shakeup in USCG management.