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Hey, probably not a good idea to be using triple quotes around certain words. It dips into the triple parentheses. Please edit.
This sounds like quite a reach, I looked in that article and found nothing on quote marks. I also googled it and found only mentions of parentheses. I also found this thread. So from what I see, it's not grammatically correct, no. It's a bit demeaning, but it is a huge reach to compare it to triple parentheses.
I gotta be super conservative with anything that may resemble a dogwhistle in this community. There was a fiasco a while ago where a user used a certain word that could be taken as fascist. I ended up having to do damage control and ban said user.
So please edit, just remove the triple quotations and any suggestions that the German government is being coerced with their hatespeech law.