The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as “potentially divisive” — a term that prompted outcry from lawmakers and advocates.
Nooses in America are deeply associated with lynching, a form of white supremacist extrajudicial murder that typically involves torture, mutilation, and display of the corpse as a warning.
Yes, I am saying that the noose is very different than hate groups coopting the swastika and Norse runes, where the original context was not hate based.
The noose was a symbol of hate before the hate groups used it.