India, Nov. 21 -- The US Coast Guard, under the Donald Trump administration, will stop classifying swastikas and nooses as hate symbols. Instead, they will be categorized as 'potentially divisive'. This will take place after a policy change comes in effect next month. It is reportedly part of a broader overhaul under the Trump administration that has also softened guidance on Confederate imagery.

This policy change comes after the Trump administration issued directives to loosen hazing and harassment rules, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth arguing they were too broad.

Thus, while the Trump government is not directly ending swastikas and nooses from being hate symbols, the change is coming under them, and it has prompted a wide array o...