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Coast Guard reverses swastika policy after Washington Post expose

Ellsworth Toohey
Nov 21, 2025
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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 Gu…

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