Wednesday, December 17, 2025

USCG enacts policy calling swastikas 'potentially divisive'

The U.S. Coast Guard has allowed a new workplace harassment policy to take effect that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to "potentially divisive" despite an uproar over the new language that forced the service's top officer to direct that both would remain prohibited.

Posted by qcp at 09:29 AM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink

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True if everyone in the office is sporting white nationalist tattoos. Then a swastika wouldn't be divisive.

#1 | Posted by mattm at 2025-12-17 12:55 PM

*** Two US Senators Freeze USCG Admiral's Promotion Over Swastika Policy ***

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#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-17 02:44 PM

SSentinel weeps.

Bwahaha

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-17 04:06 PM

The swastika is no more of a hate symbol than the Star of David. Of all the stuff that one could spend political capital on to oppose in the current admin, this is a stupid hill to die on. Especially since they're still prohibited, along with other potentially divisive symbols, in the workplace.

#4 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-17 04:27 PM

"The swastika is no more of a hate symbol than the Star of David."

People pick the strangest hills to build ovens on.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 04:38 PM

The Star of David Is a Hate Symbol.

Also a Supremacist symbol.

Both Suck.

Nazism in it's original incarnation is Extinct.

Zionism is all too Alive, and Killing innocents everyday.

But don't say that out Loud.

Big Brother might hear you...

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-17 04:39 PM

6. "The Star of David Is a Hate Symbol."

Judaism does not equal Israel, and vice versa.

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-17 07:05 PM

The Star of David is a Swastika backwards! - Sentinel

The swastika became a worldwide hate symbol in the 1930s and 40s after it was used by Hitler's Nazis.

That's history, and it's not going to change. Neither will the fact that it was previously not a hate symbol.... which matters not as much in recent contexts.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-17 07:35 PM

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