Bikewashing

When businesses, organisation, councils or politicians pretend to be supportive of or encouraging cycling when in fact they are not.

Councils give the impression that they are producing improvements to cycling without actually producing improvements to cycling.

Or a politician is pictured on a bike or has a profile picture of them on a bike, and they describe themselves as a 'keen cyclist' when everyone knows they are just there for a photo opportunity and don't want to improve cycling safety.

See also 'Greenwashing' but for bikes and cycling

Everyone knows that they talk a good talk when it comes to cycling, but in reality they don't care and don't want to make any improvements. It's all just 'Bikewashing' to make them look good.

by Brownhorse January 12, 2022

bribewashing

brainwashing through money, in hopes of causing people to forget past sins.

China must have done a lot of bribewashing in order to get the Olympics after what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989, along with their Human Rights abuses.

by dmccowan April 28, 2008

bluewashing

Covering up police brutality by the police department.

The police department is bluewashing the suspicious nature of the suspect's death.

by hikingbear April 28, 2015

bamewashing

umbrella term for the washing of any minority group. bame stand for "black, asian and minority ethnic."

"hey bro they bamewashed triss in the show, she was supposed to be a redhead"
"well, netflix being netflix, bamewashing is their thing now"

by goezdea February 18, 2020