A new U.S. Coast Guard policy, set to take effect next month, will no longer classify imagery of swastikas or nooses as hate symbols, downgrading the level of scrutiny needed to order their removal from Coast Guard facilities.

The swastika is perhaps the best-known symbol of the Nazi regime in Germany , which systematically murdered 6 million Jewish people and millions of others during the Holocaust. Today, the swastika remains widely recognized as a symbol of antisemitism.

The new policy from the Coast Guard , which previously designated the swastika as a “hate symbol,” now labels it as merely “potentially divisive.” The same holds true for other racist symbols, including nooses, which have been used to lynch, torture, and terrorize Black people throughout U.S. history, particularl

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