They Lied: U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses.

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BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-12-16T20:47:09.655Z

EDITED TO ADD:

The Coast Guard planned to change how it described swastikas and nooses. Then came the outcry and an updated policy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as “potentially divisive” — a term that prompted outcry from lawmakers and advocates.

“Divisive or hate symbols and flags are prohibited,” the latest Coast Guard policy, released late Thursday, declared before adding that this category included “a noose, a swastika, and any symbols or flags co-opted or adopted by hate-based groups.”

“This is not an updated policy but a new policy to combat any misinformation and double down that the U.S. Coast Guard forbids these symbols,” an accompanying Coast Guard press release said.

The late-night change came on the same day that media outlets, led by The Washington Post, discovered that the Coast Guard had written a policy earlier this month that called those same symbols “potentially divisive.” The term was a shift from a years-long policy, first rolled out in 2019, that said symbols like swastikas and nooses were “widely identified with oppression or hatred” and called their display “a potential hate incident.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-coast-guard-planned-to-change-how-it-described-swastikas-and-nooses-then-came-the-outcry-and-an-updated-policy

[Lovie777]

1. But this current administration is attacking colleges who claim that are................

antisemitic?

Wherein, the current administration goes after payment because of same?

But is ok with NG downgrading?

I call this bullshit.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. So, the outrage last month was for show.

A day of shame for the institution of the US coast Guard; and eternal shame for all in its leadership who made it possible.

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4. They lied about it. I edited to show that they claimed they retracted it.

[eShirl]

3. does that include guillotines?

[artemisia1]

5. Seeing a USCG cutter with the National Ensign in the background with this policy infuriates me as someone who

wore their uniform for years. Even at the height of the G.W. Bush era, wearing one of these in uniform would have gotten me booted. A picture of me wearing one in civilian clothes would also have gotten me in serious trouble and likely booted.

What a difference 20 years makes. The "Let the Eagle Soar" guy was Director of DHS.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses 'potentially divisive'

A new workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of such symbols quietly went into effect this week.

Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’

— Freedom Writers Collaborative (@fwcollaborative.bsky.social) 2025-12-16T20:03:34Z

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/16/coast-guard-swastikas-nooses/

The U.S. Coast Guard has allowed a new workplace harassment policy to take effect that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive” despite an uproar over the new language that forced the service’s top officer to declare that both would remain prohibited.

The new policy went into effect Monday, according to written correspondence that the Coast Guard provided to Congress this week, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post. The manual is posted online and makes clear that its previous version “is cancelled.”

Spokespeople for the Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the military service, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The symbols issue is expected to come up at a House committee hearing Tuesday.

The Post was first to report on the Coast Guard’s plan to revise its workplace harassment policy last month. The Trump administration called the article “false,” but within hours of its publication the service’s acting commandant, Adm. Kevin Lunday, issued a memo forcefully denouncing symbols such as swastikas and nooses, and emphasizing that both remain prohibited......

The Coast Guard’s policy softening the definition of swastikas — an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the Nazis’ extermination of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — comes as antisemitism is on the rise globally. At least 15 people were killed over the weekend at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia.

The trump administration is full of Nazis and fascists. That is why trump is mad at Anti-fa

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7. It's madness

The crazies have taken over

[NotHardly]

8. Coast Guard lied, expected under Trump

Shame on their fathers, themselves, their sons and daughters who thought there was dignity in their service. Shame.

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9. Truly disgusting. And drumphf's poison keeps spreading.