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The Coast Guard is downplaying its policy change to no longer refer to displays of swastikas and nooses as a “hate incident” — after it distributed new guidance to remove the term “hate incident” from its vocabulary altogether.

While the service previously identified displays of swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags, and other supremacist or antisemitic symbols as a “potential hate incident,” the new guidance now labels them as “potentially divisive symbols and flags.” The change was first reported by The Washington Post.

Despite the alteration, the Coast Guard claims that it remains committed to barring the symbols from the service and penalizing those who display them. Additionally, it said that it still considers the symbols “extremist image

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