Brownwashing 

Brownwashing is a casting practice in the film industry of mainly The United States in which POC actors are cast in historically non-POC character roles. The film industry has a history of frequently casting POC actors for roles involving White, non-Hispanic culture.

Hermione Granger although a fictional character she has historically perceived as a young white girl this was up until recently when a Play based on the books announced their casting of a black woman to play the roll of Germione Granger. The Brownwashing of this popular fictional white character is just a small sample of this ever growing trend in entertainment industry.

Brownwashing by NateBlank July 23, 2017

Brownwashing 

The act of replacing historically white figures with non white figures.

Guy 1: "Did you see the new television program claiming a decent portion of vikings in Scandinavia were black?"

Guy 2: "well, that's because the media has been brownwashing history so non white folk don't get offended by white history being too white"

Brownwashing by TradWaman March 9, 2019

Brainwaving 

Thinking. The main symptom of a working mind.

How are you Daniel?
Brainwaving.
Boss?
Braindead.

Brainwaving by rperazag May 23, 2010

brainwanking 

Any intellectual/academic discussion meant more to show off the intelligence of the speaker than to prove a point or educate anyone listening.

Freudian literary criticism is pretty useless, to be honest; eventually they stop talking about literature entirely, in favor of pointless brainwanking.

brainwanking by kiefda03 June 10, 2010

Brownwashing 

When a cis white guy cites his friends and girlfriends and employees of color as proof to earn a carte blanche "I'm not a racist" card and/or to hide or justify other subtly racist behaviors.

He thinks that by brownwashing his life, he can justify voting a ticket that he thinks will advance his own potential economic situation, even though that action simulataneously endangers the basic civil liberties and physical safety of people of color, indigenous people, and vulnerable groups.

Brownwashing by AllAreOne February 23, 2017

brownwashing 

the opposite of whitewashing, making things unnecessarily diverse just to offset racism so that people don't seem like bitches for the last 300 years of oppression

Bridgerton season 2 was a victim of brownwashing bc the British's feelings were hurt after people called them racist

brownwashing by oodibaba February 22, 2023

britwashing 

1 co-opting Irish nationals and claiming them as British

2 cack-handedly confusing Irish people for Brits

'George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde are two of my favourite British writers!' 'Dude, you're Britwashing them; they're Irish'

'The Banshees of Inisherin at the Oscars, wow, what a great year for British film.' 'They're Irish -- you're britwashing'

britwashing by peterplaysmusic April 29, 2023