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How Parentheses Became a Symbol for Hate Speech

How Parentheses Became a Symbol for Hate Speech

Update: 2016-06-10
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Katie and Ryan talk to Cooper Fleishman and Anthony Smith about the punctuation mark that antisemites are using on Twitter and other platforms to target their harassment. It's weird, but that goes without saying as far as the internet is concerned.

Read Cooper and Anthony's pieces for Mic.com here:
https://m.mic.com/articles/145459/the-neo-nazi-echoes-symbol-is-officially-hate-speech#.ir1KQfuHg

And here:
https://m.mic.com/articles/145105/coincidence-detector-the-google-extension-white-supremacists-use-to-track-jews#.QhSqA6qlb

And if you need to clear your mind, you will not regret looking at Katie's insane Russian horse photo:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/the-prettiest-horse-in-the-world?utm_term=.wvXOzdn2w#.ko0MEmk3y


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How Parentheses Became a Symbol for Hate Speech

How Parentheses Became a Symbol for Hate Speech

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