Crosspost
The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.
Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines. The new policy, set to take effect Dec. 15, similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag, though display of the latter remains banned, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
So, this naturally raises the question… if those things are taken off of the list of hate symbols, then what’s left on the list of hate symbols?
I tried to find the answer by looking at the article, but all it has is this Excerpt from February 2023 U.S. Coast Guard policy document,
So, if that’s non-exhaustive, there might be others, but surely, they’d list the worst symbols as examples. So, basically, there’s nothing left that is identified as a hate symbol.
I personally find it interesting that they didn’t do this in stages to hide their intent. Like, first remove the Confederate flag, and later remove the Nazi swastika. They did them both together at the same time, which I think shows that they do actually understand that the Confederate flag has the same basic meaning as the Nazi swastika today.
They will be adding trans and pride flags in their place, maybe a Palestinian flag for good measure.