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William Seger

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6. Who was responsible?

Fri Nov 21, 2025, 12:49 PM

Nov 21

Acting Coast Guard commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday announced the reversal, but nobody wants to take "credit" for trying to pull this off:

It was unclear Friday morning who had directed the attempt to reclassify such symbols as “potentially divisive” rather than hate symbols. A Coast Guard spokeswoman did not immediately address questions about how late-night policy reversal came to be.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard under the purview of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, did not respond to queries Friday seeking to understand whether Noem or her staff at DHS had any involvement in attempting to classify swastikas and nooses as “potentially divisive,” or whether the secretary had even known about the planned language change before The Post’s story was published.

I want to know, was it Noem or someone higher?

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In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols [View all] Zorro Nov 21 OP

I guess it's good trump admin often backtracks on such things, but fact it was even proposed is disgusting. Silent Type Nov 21 #1

I'm expecting them to NOT live up to the current "turn-around". NotHardly Nov 21 #16

It's sad they couldn't figure that out on their own C_U_L8R Nov 21 #2

They totally knew what they weredoing. intheflow Nov 21 #4

They try it, walk back, try again later on another front Easterncedar Nov 21 #3

this is almost straight out of Tim Snyder's "On Tyranny" SaydiTom Nov 21 #5

Who was responsible? William Seger Nov 21 #6

Same here. Raven123 Nov 21 #18

MAGA would classify them as "great" symbols IronLionZion Nov 21 #7

Pushback works. nt SunSeeker Nov 21 #8

Shamed into the reversal. WestMichRad Nov 21 #9

Of course they did. The whole frigging cabal are TACOs. KPN Nov 21 #10

Chaos orangecrush Nov 21 #11

More, please Seinan Sensei Nov 21 #12

Hegseth: Can't anyone take a joke? no_hypocrisy Nov 21 #13

Check His Tattoos 2na fisherman Nov 21 #17

What's the worst is that they had to be shamed into it by the citizenry. ms liberty Nov 21 #14

TACOS spread to Coast Guard! Wonder Why Nov 21 #15

It's not clear to me that this is actually a "reversal" at all. relayerbob Nov 21 #19

What matters to the deplorables is the effort Auggie Nov 21 #20

Now you see it, Bayard Nov 21 #21

These clowns are really good at walking backwards. Borogove Nov 21 #22

I think Coast Guard brass stood up to the Homeland Security nazis Mysterian Nov 21 #23

Locking as a duplicate Yonnie3 Nov 21 #24