Coast Guard reverses swastika policy after Washington Post expose

The Coast Guard scrambled to reverse a policy change that would have reclassified swastikas and nooses as merely 'potentially divisive' rather than hate symbols — but only after The Washington Post exposed it.
According to Time, the Post reported Thursday that updated Coast Guard guidelines set to take effect December 15 had quietly downgraded the Nazi insignia and symbols of lynching from their status as prohibited hate symbols. — Read the rest
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