Coast Guard ends hate symbol labels for swastikas, nooses
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The 7 follows President Donald Trump’s second term. The Coast Guard will stop classifying swastikas as hate symbols. More: Nooses and the Confederate flag are being similarly downgraded from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.”
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