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I've got a new one, and it's shockingly effective: "ن”
That little symbol, in a name, an icon, a banner? Means “terrible person who is aggressively cruel, deeply stupid, and trying to ruin as many people’s days as possible” in a way that no other marker I’ve ever seen does. It’s reliably worse than a swastika or “pro-gamergate” - even neo-nazis sometimes tweet about their day, or to each other without tagging in a victim.
I've got a new one, and it's shockingly effective: "ن”
That little symbol, in a name, an icon, a banner? Means “terrible person who is aggressively cruel, deeply stupid, and trying to ruin as many people’s days as possible” in a way that no other marker I’ve ever seen does. It’s reliably worse than a swastika or “pro-gamergate” - even neo-nazis sometimes tweet about their day, or to each other without tagging in a victim.
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Date: 2015-12-01 10:12 pm (UTC)-- A <3
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Date: 2015-12-01 10:21 pm (UTC)The symbol itself is "nun", the Arabic equivalent of the letter "N". To the people using it in their names and icons, it means "Christian".
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Date: 2015-12-01 10:28 pm (UTC)-- A :/
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Date: 2015-12-01 10:53 pm (UTC)And then there's this (http://www.atacrossroads.net/u-shaped-arabic-letter-mean-facebook-twitter/).
Notable that the author of that post finds it necessary to say "I encourage Christians to use this symbol NOT as an act of hate or vengeance against Muslims." The fact that you have to include that sort of disclaimer probably means that your cause is already lost, champ.
I'm betting there's more than a few profiles using that symbol who also have overlaid their profile pic with the Tricolore...
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