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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noose?wprov=sfti1#Use_in_intimidation_and_hate-based_racial_politics
You may not be familiar if you’re not American.
Lived in the US my whole life and apparently wasn’t clear enough.
I am saying the noose was already being used as a hate symbols by the state. The state used them to threaten runaway slaves for example.
It is very different than hate groups coopting the swastika and Norse runes, where the original context was not hate based.
I see, thanks for the clarification. I didn’t want to assume.