Can you point me to said references? I'm ready to acknowledge them, but I don't see them. The article in Wikipedia (linked to at the start of this thread) is exclusively about the use of the term by the Nazis and how they coined it.
The wikipedia article identified it as the name of a propaganda technique. There's nothing that restricts the use of that technique to anyone in particular. Consider that people other than the inventor of the hammer can use hammers.
Yes, I understand this, and that's something that sometimes happens with words. But the use of "Big Lie" in this context (i.e. capitalized, a concept about lying) is like the use of "Final Solution": sure, it could be used in another context different to what the Nazis meant by it, but how probable is that? All the examples in Wikipedia are Nazi-related.
I'll be happy to stand corrected if you can point me to a single use of this concept of "Big Lie" -- referred to unequivocally as the concept we're debating here, of telling a lie so big people won't accept it's not true -- that does not refer to the alleged "betrayal of Germany" meant by Hitler, or its related Nazi myths and propaganda.
At this point I'm only asking you for an example. To be honest I don't think there is, just as there is no other use of Final Solution, but of course I can be proven wrong.
Thanks for the example. I wasn't aware of the use of the term in US politics/journalism. In my defense, I'm not from the US and while I of course follow some of the drama they have going over there, I'm not always familiar with the details.
