))) (((

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inverted by analogy with ((( ))).

Symbol[edit]

))) (((

  1. (neo-Nazism, neologism, offensive) Indicates somebody or something of pure non-Jewish background.[1][2]
    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[edit]

  1. ^ Echo”, in Anti-Defamation League, accessed 17 March 2021: “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.”
  2. ^ Amanda Hess (10 June 2016), “For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN