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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can someone please translate this rule for a non American?

[–] LallyLuckFarm 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone's reputation.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In this case it might be actual Whites doing said washing.

[–] LallyLuckFarm 1 points 1 month ago

Which is probably a first for some of these folks

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that's the white house press secretary. She's gotta go in front of a bunch of journalists, try to frame the president's actions as somehow a good thing (whitewashing), and then answer all of the journalists' questions (sort of).

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He only hires white blonde chicks and to me that reeks of DEI

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Focusing on the important things, like how bad her surgeries were