The US Coast Guard denied claims it’s revising its policies to reclassify hate symbols, including the swastika and nooses, as “potentially divisive” symbols — slamming the suggestion as “categorically false.”

The claim, first reported by the Washington Post on Thursday afternoon, picks apart the Coast Guard’s “Harassing Behavior Prevention, Response, and Accountability” manual that was approved this month.

The military branch flatly denied the outlet’s report that it was planning to reclassify its list of hate symbols.

“The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses or other extremist imagery as prohibited symbols are categorically false,” Admiral Kevin Lunday, acting commandant of the US Coast Guard, wrote in a statement on X . “These symbols have

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