pinkwash
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pinkwash (third-person singular simple present pinkwashes, present participle pinkwashing, simple past and past participle pinkwashed)
- To cover in a coat of pink paint.
- 1986 December 29, Susan Lardner, “Lotus Blossum”, in The New Yorker:
- […] I see, twenty yards away, workmen pinkwashing the newly laid, badly stained, cheap-looking brick cladding of a newly built apartment house called — well, something ridiculous: Nepal, let's say.
- To promote consumer goods and services using support of breast cancer-related charities.
- 2012 February 15, Karen McVeigh, “Susan G Komen's 'pinkwashing' problem a black mark on charity”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Gayle Sulik, sociologist and author of "Pink Ribbon Blues", said pinkwashing is only the beginning of how "breast cancer culture" undermines women's health.
- (LGBT) To tout the gay-friendliness of something in an attempt to downplay or soften aspects of it considered negative.
- 2011 November 22, Sarah Schulman, “Israel and ‘Pinkwashing’”, in New York Times[2]:
- Pinkwashing not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel’s gay community, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations.
- 2012, "Seattle LGBT commission cancels meeting with Israeli gays over treatment of Palestinians", The Times of Israel, 21 March 2012 (article tagline):
- Critics say Israel is 'pinkwashing' its practices vis-a-vis the Palestinians by emphasizing its good record on gay rights.
Quotations[edit]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pinkwash.
Translations[edit]
to tout the gay-friendliness of something in an attempt to downplay or soften aspects of it considered negative
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