Coast Guard: Washington Post Ran Fake News With Their Hate Symbol Story

This was all over yesterday, of course

Did the Washington Post fail to do Journalism?

Coast Guard denies report it won’t classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

The Coast Guard said Thursday a Washington Post report that claimed it will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols is “categorically false.”

“The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses or other extremist imagery as prohibited symbols are categorically false. These symbols have been and remain prohibited in the Coast Guard per policy,” Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting Coast Guard commandant, said in a statement.

The Post reported the branch, part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), will classify swastikas, widely recognized as a symbol of the German Nazi Party and linked to the killing of millions of Jews, as “potentially divisive,” along with the Confederate flag and nooses, citing documents it obtained.

The new policy is set to go into effect Dec. 15, and if the “potentially divisive” symbol is reported, supervisors will have to investigate and could direct it to be removed after advising with the legal office, the Post reported.

The DHS strongly pushed back on the report, calling it an “absolute ludicrous lie and unequivocally false.”

Were they real documents? Were they something that had been written but not going anywhere? Something some staffer was running up the flagpole? It might be more of a story if they had gone into effect, but, things get written all the time that never happen. Maybe some staffer decided they didn’t like the whole “hate” thing because it’s been overused, and tried to change it to “potentially divisive.” Regardless, the symbols are still banned

According to the branch’s 2019 guidance, commanders within the Coast Guard could direct that swastikas, nooses or other emblems be removed even if they are not deemed as a “potential hate incident.”

“The following is a non-exhaustive list of symbols whose display, presentation, creation, or depiction would constitute a potential hate incident: a noose, a swastika, supremacist symbols, Confederate symbols or flags, and antiSemitic symbols, among many others,” the Coast Guard said in the guidance.

The Trump admin is seriously pro-Jew, so, they surely will not tolerate the symbols. The symbols are still banned. Will be banned. Will get Coast Guard members in trouble just like always. Nothing will change, just terminology.