Viewpoint diversity on swastikas and vaccines: one close call and one further descent

The canary was revived after being found gasping for breath in the coal mine...

The Washington Post reports this morning:

In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols By Hari Raj and Victoria Bisset
 

"The U.S. Coast Guard issued a new, more stringent policy on hate symbols including the swastika Thursday night, prohibiting “divisive or hate symbols or flags.”  

 Here's the WaPo's story from yesterday: 

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols 

"Though the Coast Guard is not part of the Defense Department, the service has been reworking its policies to align with the Trump administration’s changing tolerances for hazing and harassment within the U.S. military. In September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed a review and overhaul of those policies, calling the military’s existing standards “overly broad” and saying they jeopardize troops’ combat readiness." 

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But viewpoint diversity is alive and well at the CDC: see this from Statnews

Under RFK Jr., CDC reverses course on stance that vaccines don’t cause autism
It’s the latest move by Kennedy and his allies to raise doubts about childhood shots  By Chelsea Cirruzzo, Helen Branswell, and Daniel PayneNov 

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday publicly reversed its stance that vaccines do not cause autism, over the objections of career staff and counter to years of scientific evidence."