IMPORTANT - Cyber hugs

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IMPORTANT - Cyber hugs

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A member has brought to our attention that ((( ))) is currently being used as an antisemitic code. The following link explains:
The use of triple parentheses or triple brackets, also known as an (((echo))), is an antisemitic symbol that has been used to highlight the names of individuals of a Jewish background. The practice originated from the far-right blog The Right Stuff; the blog's editors have explained that the symbol is meant to symbolize that the historic actions of members of the Jewish ethnicity had caused their surnames to "echo throughout history".[1] The triple parentheses have been adopted as an online stigma by antisemites, neo-Nazis, and white nationalists to identify individuals of Jewish background as targets for online harassment, such as Jewish journalists critical of 2016 U.S. presidential election candidate Donald Trump.[2][3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

How sad that a widely used cyber hug symbol has been co-opted for evil.

{{{ }}} is also used as a cyberhug, and I suggest as a group we start using the brace symbols instead.
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I am not a kissy-huggy person but here it goes…

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:D :D :D
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+1
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We have been em-braced... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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Lolol!!
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