From .Mic:<\/p>\n
In the early days of the social web, putting someone’s name in multiple parentheses was meant to give that person a cute virtual hug. Today, it’s something far more sinister.<\/p>\n
Neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white nationalists have begun using three sets of parentheses encasing a Jewish surname \u2014 for instance, (((Fleishman))) \u2014 to identify and target Jews for harassment on blogs and major social media sites like Twitter. As one white supremacist\u00a0tweeted<\/a><\/span>, “It’s closed captioning for the Jew-blind.”<\/p>\n Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor for the New York Times<\/i>, wrote about his experience as a victim of this harassment in a May 26 story<\/a>.<\/p>\n