The (((echo))), explained

[natyanayaki]

If you read Twitter recently, you'll have noted that a wide range of figures have changed their Twitter names to incorporate a series of parenthesis. The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, for example, is now (((goldberg))), and we've also got Center for American Progress president (((Neera Tanden))) and Politico finance writer (((Ben White))).

Even the

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[melancolour]

so the parenthesis have been repurposed as a sense of pride? this is a bit confusing to me ngl

[natyanayaki]

i don't think that they've been repurposed. some jewish individuals are using them to indicate their pride (and i guess as a fuck you to those fuckers) and some non-jewish are changing their handles to include the parentheses in order to show solidarity with the individuals who have been targeted. but the scary, dangerous possibilities are still in play. at least that's what i understood.

[jeliza]

In addition to solidarity, I first saw the suggestion for non-jews to add the parenthesis because it messes with their data (most of my friends are in computers or research and I think their logic is probably sound)

[natyanayaki]

oh i see, though i wonder if that'll matter to these fuckwads. like...i dunno...people like this are so scary...

[chaya]

"We are all Spartacus," more or less.