[Ads-l] "sanewashing"

[Nancy Friedman]

Portraying something to appear more rational than it actually is (sane +
whitewashing).

"The Press Response to Trump's Word Salad Answer Is Peak Sanewashing"
(Parker Molloy, September 6)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-press-response-to-trumps-word

"From Rambling to Rational: The Media's Trump Sanewashing Problem"
(Parker Molloy, The New Republic, September 4)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rambling-rational-media-trump-sanewashing-100000571.html

Appeared in 2022 in reference to a Reddit /r/antiwork discussion:
https://tracingwoodgrains.medium.com/r-antiwork-a-tragedy-of-sanewashing-and-social-gentrification-56298af1c1a7

Urban Dictionary, April 22, 2022:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sanewashing

I wrote earlier this year about another novel -washing coinage,
"smallwashing," and included links to other -washing compounds:
https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-smallwashing

Nancy Friedman
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