ArnoldRimmer said:
Every time I hear some fool suggesting that "Lügenpresse" is "Nazi-speak" I want to facepalm, or alternatively: force these people to actually investigate the correctness of that claim for themselves (instead of just parroting some media narrative without thinking). The ridiculousness of that claim is probably only beaten by people who believe "Gutmensch" to be "Nazi-speak". I always imagine such people as guys who get their news almost exclusively from sources like "BILD" or "SPIEGEL Online", yet believe themselves to be well-informed. |
Hah, I knew somebody would get #triggered hard by that, lel.
The term was coined well earlier and probably most used during WW1, but it's also fact that it was part of the official NSDAP party manifesto and that the tactic of discrediting all press (using "Lügenpresse" among several other expressions) but their own news outlets was essential to their rise to power.
So in my opinion your "just fervor" to absolve the word from it's Nazi stink amounts to little more than vapid nitpickery and I love to see people like that get all worked up.
