New | Pro-Beijing lawmaker accuses pan-democrats of using ‘Nazi propaganda tactic’
DAB legislator says opposition have smeared finance committee chairman Ng Leung-sing and pro-establishment camp with repeated lies
A pro-Beijing lawmaker has accused pan-democrat lawmakers of using a 'Nazi propaganda tactic' by accusing the chairman of the Legislative Council’s finance committee Ng Leung-sing of breaching Legco rules.
Christopher Chung Shu-kun, of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, was speaking in defence of Ng after a motion of no confidence in the finance committee chief was tabled on Wednesday morning.
Ng survived the vote.
“The German Nazi Party’s Goebbels had said: ‘Lies repeated a thousand times would become the truth’. Today the opposition party has used this Nazi Party propaganda tactic in smearing Ng Leung-sing and the pro-establishment camp,” Chung said.
Chung was referring to a famous quote attributed to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. The quote, of which many versions exist, can be summarised as: if you a tell a big enough lie, and repeat it often enough, it will become the truth.
“Is it true that [in previous finance committee meetings,] all pan-democrats could only speak once, and only for a minute every time?” Chung continued.