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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 03:37 AM Oct 2016

Trump-supporters repeating and using historical, original Nazi-propaganda verbatim:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/the-alt-right-has-adopted-an-old-nazi-term-for-reporters?utm_term=.ymQzR25a3#.mcYdvQBy0

“Tell the truth!” and “CNN sucks!” have become staples at nearly every Trump rally. On Saturday night, a new and foreign accusation came to the fore: “Lügenpresse!”

The term, which means “lying press” in German, has a history dating back to the mid-1800s and was used by the Nazis to discredit the media. In recent years, it has been revived by German far-right anti-immigrant groups. And on Saturday, it made an appearance at a Trump rally in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Breitbart News reported favorably on the term in an interview earlier this year with the leader of the German far-right group PEGIDA, writing, “It will come as no surprise to many that the mainstream media would lash out against a word that highlights their own, intentional failings. But [Lutz] Bachmann’s PEGIDA has popularized the term to the point where it has become a pillar — even a rallying cry — for the nationalist, populist movements across the continent.”

A panel of German linguists, in response, named “Lügenpresse” the worst word of 2014.




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If it talks like a NSDAP-propagandist, if it promises to violently do away with established norms while promising to return the country to a Golden Age like a Fascist, if it blames the country's problems on foreign and domestic boogeymen like a Nazi, if it uses racism to whip up the masses like a Nazi, is it a Nazi?
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