it was accurately reported and it caused such BLOWBACK that someone quickly got on the horn
to deny it all.
Let's face it, it is in keeping with Trump's actions and directives, including his attacks on DEI, the reported removal and/or obscuring of notable Blacks and other minorities from the national archives, his restoring of confederate names to parks, bases, ships and monuments, and MAGA achieving the complete obliteration of the ADL's decades old hate database because they called hate peddler Kirk's outfit, TPoint, out for what they really ARE.
So this story wasn't wholly incongruous with what THEY'VE been up to.
Coast Guard disputes claim new guidelines change stance on swastikas - The Independent UK via MSN
The U.S. Coast Guard will reportedly no longer consider swastikas, nooses, or the Confederate flag to be hate symbols, according to forthcoming guidelines obtained by The Washington Post, though the service branch denies changing its stance towards such imagery.
Under the guidelines reported by the paper, these symbols will instead be considered “potentially divisive” imagery, though flying the Confederate flag will remain banned.
“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” an anonymous Coast Guard official who has seen the alleged guidelines told the paper.
“The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses or other extremist imagery as prohibited symbols are categorically false,” Admiral Kevin Lunday, Acting Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, said in a statement to The Independent. “These symbols have been and remain prohibited in the Coast Guard per policy. Any display, use or promotion of such symbols, as always, will be thoroughly investigated and severely punished.”
So maybe it became a case of one sickly twisted cross TOO MANY. Even for the usually sedate GP.
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