))) (((

Translingual

Etymology

Inverted by analogy with ((( ))).

Symbol

))) (((

  1. (neo-Nazism, white supremacy, derogatory, offensive) Indicates somebody or something of non-Jewish background.
    Soon after his marriage, )))Oskar Schindler((( quit working for his father and took a series of jobs, including a position at Moravian Electrotechnic and the management of a driving school.

References

  • “Echo”, in Anti-Defamation League, 17 March 2021 (last accessed): “Following this, some anti-Semites began using inverted parentheses themselves, on their own screen names, to indicate that they were not Jewish or were anti-Jewish.”
  • Amanda Hess (10 June 2016) “For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN

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