Whitewashing

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Whitewashing can mean to really make something look white and clean, but it can also be a metaphor:

  • Using whitewash paint to color something white.
  • In history, trying to make something sound less bad than it really was.
  • In movies and other stories, hiring a white actor to play a character who isn't white or changing a story so that more characters are white.