Noun.
When Jewish groups or individuals are used to cover up or gloss over the anti-Semitism of a third party, or absolve an anti-Semite of anti-Semitism
The use of support by a small group of Jews to obfuscate the underlying anti-Semitism of an individual or group
To give a veneer of respectability to anti-Zionists
Jewish Voice for Peace's main goal is to blue-and-whitewash away the anti-Semitism of Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Semites.
A derogatory term used to describe a minority who has assimilated with western society. The "White washed" person does not necessarily abandon his/her own culture but rather embrace others beside his/her own. Some people take it as a compliment while others take it as an insult.
Just because I am open minded does not mean I am whitewashed. Get itstraight!
Someone who doesn’t act their race from racist stereotypes. But this is not true. From someone doesn’t speak their native language that doesn’t mean they’re whitewashed.
Jane Doe: I’m Mexican but I don’t speak Spanish or listen to Spanish music
John Doe: I hate people like you. So whitewashed .
A term that now has also come to refer to the entertainment industry's attempt at making ethnic characters more appealing to the white, money-spending masses by making exotic characters less ethnic and more "white."
Isn't Chun Li supposed to be 100% Chinese? Why did Hollywood totally whitewash her and cast a half-asian actress to play her in that horrible new Street Fighter movie??
Thanks to commercial whitewashing, every token "black" girl on tv has become a light skinned black girl. This does not bode well for dark skinned black actresses.