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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 the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

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.

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    6 hours ago

    Next step, put it on their flags?

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    13 hours ago

    They can reclassify all they like, people still know when they see someone wearing one of those symbols, they’re looking at a POS.

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      13 hours ago

      You’re talking about Americans here… The current state of america is a mirror reflection of its majority of people.

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        12 hours ago

        The majority of Americans aren’t conservatives. Less than 1/3 of adults voted for trump. That’s not a majority in any kind of math.

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            11 hours ago

            They’re probably out “not being political” and are ignorant to most curent events.

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              8 hours ago

              “If 10 people are sitting at a table being civil to 1 nazi, there are 11 nazis at the table.” or however the quote goes

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      12 hours ago

      The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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    13 hours ago

    Ohhh, boy, this is going to go over well with the Jewish and black servicemen and women, won’t it?

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    13 hours ago

    So, this naturally raises the question… if those things are taken off of the list of hate symbols, then what’s left on the list of hate symbols?

    I tried to find the answer by looking at the article, but all it has is this Excerpt from February 2023 U.S. Coast Guard policy document,

    The following is a non-exhaustive list of symbols whose display, presentation, creation, or depiction would constitute a potential hate incident: a noose, a swastika, supremacist symbols, Confederate symbols or flags, and anti-Semitic symbols. The display of these types of symbols constitutes a potential hate incident because hatebased groups have co-opted or adopted them as symbols of supremacy, racial or religious intolerance, or other bias.

    So, if that’s non-exhaustive, there might be others, but surely, they’d list the worst symbols as examples. So, basically, there’s nothing left that is identified as a hate symbol.

    I personally find it interesting that they didn’t do this in stages to hide their intent. Like, first remove the Confederate flag, and later remove the Nazi swastika. They did them both together at the same time, which I think shows that they do actually understand that the Confederate flag has the same basic meaning as the Nazi swastika today.

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      10 hours ago

      They will be adding trans and pride flags in their place, maybe a Palestinian flag for good measure.

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    14 hours ago

    Overall, the researchers found that Grokipedia includes 12,522 citations to online sources that previous academic research has deemed as having very low credibility. And they found that Grokipedia cites those domains three times as often as Wikipedia.

    Unlike Wikipedia, Grokipedia centralizes its editing process. Users can submit suggested edits to Grokipedia, but instead of assigning a group of volunteer community editors to decide on the edits, xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, controls whether or not a certain edit is approved and implemented on the website. The process of review is not entirely transparent, but the company has suggested that Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot, plays a part in reviewing edit submissions. When a user submits an edit, it is approved or denied with “Grok Feedback.”

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    13 hours ago

    I mean, let’s be honest here: This was going to happen regardless of whether we elected a rapist nazi to POTUS.

    If you start caring about nazi hate symbols then you need to get rid of a LOT of the active military… and apparently democrats in Maine.

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      No. Literal nazi shit is way past where the line used to be. People were routinely kicked out for that kind of shit coming out because a diverse military is objectively better at many things and if you can’t deal with that you are the problem in the eyes of the brass.