God help this country if this turns out to be true because it means our government and military are in the control of some very toxic and dangerous people:
Link: Military service will reportedly no longer classify 'divisive' swastika as 'hate' symbol - Raw Story
"Trump administration insiders are furious over reporting that the U.S. Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, will no longer classify the swastika as a symbol of "hate."
According to the Washington Post, the branch of military service has decided that swastikas and nooses are considered "potentially divisive" but not hateful.
As the news outlet reports, "The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month."
The report continues:
"Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines. The new policy, set to take effect Dec. 15, similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag, though display of the latter remains banned, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post."
The Post also reports, "Certain historic displays or artwork where the Confederate flag is a minor element are still permissible, according to the policy.""
If this report is authentic, then even though the US Coast Guard is under DHS and Kristi Noem's helm, a directive like this is almost guaranteed to be a directive coming from the top - Drumpf himself. It's highly unlikely that the commander of a single branch of military could make such a unilateral proclamation like this without direction from higher up the chain of command.
And in all seriousness though - if this reporting is true, what more can be said about those who would outright deny the intrinsic evil and historically documented atrocities associated with that hateful symbol and the people who revered it, not just in 1930's Germany where it was the symbol of dictatorial fascism and genocide, but also revered by many Nazi-sympathetic people and groups since?
The irony abounds if this directive turns out to be true as the Washington Post is reporting.
Irony because this nation, the United States of America, along with allied nations around the world, fought in a global conflict that took the lives of 55 million civilians and 25 million military personnel around the planet just some 80 or so years ago, including nearly half a million American military lives. Ffs - there are still Americans alive today who fought in that war and put their lives on the line to erase that symbol from existence.
Irony also because Germany, the country of origin of the swastika as we know it today, criminalized the act of displaying it in public in their own nation because their people know all too well the depths of evil that it represents as death and ruin that came from it is still fresh in their national memory.
But if the Washington Post story is true, we have some awful individuals in our American government and military who have made the determination that the Nazi Swastika is only a "potentially divisive" symbol and therefore will no longer ban it.
Let's be clear. The symbol of Nazi hate and death was, is, and always will be an ungodly symbol of hate, cruelty, racism, bigotry, tyranny, and of course, genocide. It is more than just fucking "potentially divisive." It is a symbol that should always be the dread enemy of not just our nation's people and government, but our military as well, and should never be an acceptable symbol to be displayed or worn by our soldiers in uniform - in any conceivable manner.
The mind reels. . . truly it does.
---TFG
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