I can't help but see this as a solution in search of a problem. Are we so optimized in our speech designations that solves and actual problem here that's not "We're too hard on racists?" I can get around the whole "how do you define hate speech" thing, but like, who's getting unfairly caught in the trap of using a noose in a neutral way. Does defining a swastika as "potentially divisive" help Buddhists?
It's bad, but a more neutral way to put it is that they got rid of the "hate" framing altogether and replaced it with a (mealy-mouthed) "divisiveness" framing.
I agree with a friend online who said this reads actually somewhat like malicious compliance from USCG (you still can't hang a swastika; they just got rid of the normative language about why).
Not really sure what's interesting about this story for HN, though.
They are increasingly revealing their ugly face. We had Sieg Heils on Republic and conservative public events. We have Miller in power. The groypers are being enabled to push out the old guard.
It is all necessary as Trump can't be the future. For it to survive, they will have to double down, and so extreme ideological idiocy will take its place.
But people still think they can wait it out. But alas, that is not how fascism works. Those concentration camps will never become vacant.
If you find yourself trying to downplay this, at a symbolic level, will you accept anything? The administration is clearly trying to find the most nazified guys they can to do horrible things.
They already are doing a genocide in Gaza (hint: that's not over). What new evil are they preparing?
If all this stuff that happens during Trump’s presidency gets normalized, and not reversed and severely punished, it’s going to get worse. They’ll push the Overton Window as far as they can in their pursuit of power.
9 comments
[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 22.4 ms ] threadNew policy:
https://media.defense.gov/2025/nov/14/2003820615/-1/-1/0/CI_...
Old policy:
https://wow.uscgaux.info/Uploads_wowII/O-DEPT/CG__Harassing_...
I agree with a friend online who said this reads actually somewhat like malicious compliance from USCG (you still can't hang a swastika; they just got rid of the normative language about why).
Not really sure what's interesting about this story for HN, though.
It is all necessary as Trump can't be the future. For it to survive, they will have to double down, and so extreme ideological idiocy will take its place.
But people still think they can wait it out. But alas, that is not how fascism works. Those concentration camps will never become vacant.
They already are doing a genocide in Gaza (hint: that's not over). What new evil are they preparing?
https://archive.is/40h3d