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whitewashing

adjective as in extenuating

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What’s key to remember is that this new wave of hype surrounding East Asian media is less keen on whitewashing or objectifying than it may have been during previous eras.

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But his whitewashing campaign — or, more precisely, his White racial erasure project — does not exist in a vacuum.

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Revisions to Japanese textbooks began to spark controversy, with China and South Korea accusing Japan of whitewashing its wartime atrocities.

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Israel, it said, was "whitewashing its image before the world".

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Users ask: How do we honor this holiday without whitewashing it?

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