When a video of two Dumbass Trump sycophants shouting “Lügenpresse”
(lying press) started to circulate Sunday, viewers from Germany soon
noted its explosive nature. The defamatory word was most frequently used
in Nazi Germany... Both the Nazi regime and the East German government
made use of it, turning it into an anti-democracy slogan...
“Lügenpresse” was branded a taboo word in Germany in 2015 by an academic
panel after anti-Islam movements, such as Pegida, started using it more
frequently in the presence of journalists.
The term emerged way before the Nazis took over in Germany. For
instance, the German Defense Ministry released a book titled “The
Lügenpresse of Our Enemies” in 1918 during World War I... At that time,
the word was used more descriptively. A decade later, it
had turned into an explosive and stigmatizing propaganda slogan...
Text above from the
Washington Post. For a more complete history of the word, see the
Wikipedia entry.
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