" Nader branded the study "a shoddy, internally contradictory whitewash.
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The whitewash in Malaysia contrasts with dogged investigations continuing abroad.
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"This is an unbelievable whitewash of justice," the mayor said.
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Go try and whitewash us with your heteronormative gender standards.
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He is being punished for refusing to whitewash his message.
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IT WAS not quite a whitewash, but it was close.
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They masked prodigious bigotry and made a whitewash of history.
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Republicans trying to whitewash this gross abuse of power, stop.
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Residents dismissed the findings as a whitewash by the police.
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They were never interviewed in a whitewash of an investigation.
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"No amount of rhetoric can whitewash these facts," he said.
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In his tweets, Chu suggested that Hollywood might "whitewash" the story.
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"This is a whitewash of justice," Emanuel told a news conference.
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To whitewash it for whatever bizarre reason would've been fucked up.
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That's because there's an Orwellian effort to whitewash the issue altogether.
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Even then, Eckert didn't so much summarize as he did whitewash.
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So I don't mean for this to whitewash Dahl's racial politics.
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"Manafort took the money to whitewash its reputation in the West."
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Or was it more of a hasty "nothing to see here" whitewash?
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If it's a whitewash investigation, that'll just be ... It'll be pretty obvious.
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They made the whitewash mix out of equal parts paint and water.
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That sounded like a ridiculous whitewash then, but even more so now.
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In making its gifts, has the family been trying to "whitewash" wrongdoing?
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"If you remain silent, then the investigation becomes a whitewash," he said.
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If pervaded by illegally-obtained licenses, it may only whitewash consumers' consciousness.
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Prime Minister Lee's siblings called the debate a "whitewash" at the time.
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Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?
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Jim Harker, the Tory leader of Northamptonshire until 2016, called it a "whitewash".
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But a lawyer for Savile's victims called the findings a "whitewash" and implausible.
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Instead of restoring the original mural, Smith wants to whitewash the rest away.
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Marvel and DC tend to whitewash: if there are Natives, they're an amalgam.
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"She thinks something like this is going to whitewash a confirmation," said Sen.
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Outside, dozens of demonstrators chanted "This law will not pass" and "Whitewash corruption".
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This hero's burial is the latest move to whitewash the Marcos regime's crimes.
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It was an attempt to whitewash his legacy, and it was dead wrong.
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"Jersey Boys" is a whitewash of a nasty tale, made to seem triumphant.
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Doing so would betray Mr. Marcos's victims, she said, and whitewash the past.
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Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International's Middle East Research Director, said it was a whitewash.
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The film pokes at this uncomfortable truth and, refreshingly, doesn't whitewash Fox's ugliness.
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" To Mr. Voris, that formulation is "a total whitewash of Catholic social teaching.
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Nearly everything the Democrats said about our report was that it was a whitewash.
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At the entrance to the park, staff whitewash the sidewalks and rangers practice drills.
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Indeed, in trying to whitewash the past, the government may stir up prejudice instead.
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They think the government is trying to whitewash the country's role in the Holocaust.
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These activists argue that BP uses the prestigious art prize to whitewash its reputation.
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Their comments do not appear to be an attempt to whitewash any Saudi role.
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Israel and its ally the United States said it amounted to a historical whitewash.
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Attempts to whitewash white supremacy have been the de facto policy in this country.
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Allowing the Sackler family to whitewash Purdue's mess is hideously cruel and insurmountably cynical.
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If I whitewash it, the piece becomes the new 'Erased de Kooning' by Rauschenberg.
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This was a report with a spine, not the whitewash some soldiers' families had feared.
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Ms Mattinson called the final report, in which such concerns were skated over, a "whitewash".
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They showed that the regime's "official" economic data was being falsified to whitewash human suffering.
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"There's no attempt to whitewash the city anymore," Aurelia Rivas, 18, a student, told us.
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Y.) accused McConnell of trying to "whitewash" the findings in the Mueller report (The Hill).
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But exclusions like the ones involving Cushman give a faint sense of whitewash and dissembling.
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Whitewashing them will simply result in another 'whitewash' of the full truth about American history.
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Then, as now, Israel sometimes agreed to help other countries and parties whitewash their images.
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And a nudge cannot fix a bankrupt policy; worse, it might help whitewash the problem.
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She used to have an artist friend, who painted the bold black strokes over the whitewash.
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To be clear, Ghost in the Shell is hardly the first movie to "whitewash" Asian characters.
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Our leader will trot out all the right words but the investigation will be a whitewash.
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There are plenty of suitors for foreign autocrats looking to whitewash their reputations on Capitol Hill.
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The former missionaries were convinced that this "investigation" would amount to nothing more than a whitewash.
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Mr. Gainsbourg reportedly had to whitewash the wall once in a while to appease his neighbors.
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But critics said those reports were too easy on the government and amounted to a whitewash.
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Trump's team viewed the investigation as a whitewash, according to one source familiar with the operation.
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I won't whitewash the problems in the punk scene since its inception over 40 years ago.
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Qatar is using the tournament to whitewash its image of being a host to Islamist extremists.
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None of this should whitewash the horrors and indignities that women in America endured before Roe.
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And he determined that Ms. Kirchner was behind a cover-up designed to whitewash Iran's role.
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"Despite Roger's attempts to prewire it, the Paul, Weiss review was not a whitewash," she writes.
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Mulan fans used the hashtag #MakeMulanRight to complain about how the possible script would whitewash Asian culture.
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An inquiry last year into the killings of six civilians after elections in July was a whitewash.
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Even when the skin color change wasn't as drastic, the AI does appear to whitewash distinct features.
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This narrative already features in some of the conspiracy theories designed to defend Trump and whitewash Putin.
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The Internet Research Agency has also attempted to whitewash and legitimize the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
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They worry that these ties will cause the investigators to whitewash the problems with Uber's corporate culture.
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Read more:Republicans: It's time to ban the Chinese government from Twitter for its 'whitewash' of coronavirus history
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Shapiro suggested that Klippenstein's explanations whitewash the horrors of piggeries and other livestock operations on many farms.
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My own grief, anger and confusion were clouding my mind, coaxing me to whitewash the harsh reality.
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"Trump is trying to whitewash or rewrite the narrative about Russia's involvement in the election," she said.
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It's very tempting to just criticize the commission on those grounds and say it's a complete whitewash.
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White creators, men in particular, tend instead to whitewash their casts, imagining themselves as both villain and hero.
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Considering the inevitable romantic highs of Dany and Drogo, this is an origin story many try to whitewash.
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"It was showing this surfer throwing his arms up in front of this big whitewash explosion," he said.
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And, of course, the choices made with A Wrinkle In Time, which for a fantasy, is whitewash fodder.
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Delightfully, I found the wholly millennial-focused car doesn't whitewash an inexpensive car with a few tech treats.
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The election currently scheduled for May will inevitably be another whitewash organized to cement Maduro's hold on power.
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The National Review questioned the decision, though, accusing the school of a whitewash, and Mann of scientific fraud.
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" He adds, "The story of the Pilgrims and the Indians, even Wells acknowledged it was a genocidal whitewash.
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This is not to whitewash Reagan's record, or even to dismiss the difficulty of the job he undertook.
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" Some Chicago leaders, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, voiced outrage at the decision, calling it a "whitewash of justice.
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A 3-0 whitewash of city rival Atlético in November aside, there have been few eye-catching performances.
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Nissin said it had not intended to "whitewash" Osaka and promised to pay more attention to diversity issues.
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The students' families were quick to condemn what they said was an attempt to whitewash the internal investigation.
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Harvard's commitment to racial diversity could whitewash its devotion to the preservation of privilege before liberal public opinion.
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" Asked about criticism that she was helping whitewash Saudi Arabia's stained reputation, Ms. Davis protested, "We're a tiny organization.
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"This is without a doubt a whitewash of justice," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said after Smollett's case was dismissed.
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The term 'whitewash' is sometimes used to describe the tendency in which Western culture appropriates minority cultures around it.
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Attorney General William Barr's Thursday morning press conference on special counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia report was a whitewash.
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The decision to drop charges drew outrage from Chicago's mayor -- who called it a "whitewash of justice" -- and police.
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The cleanup effort is widely viewed as political theater, designed to whitewash Fukushima in time for the 2020 Olympics.
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Confronted with what is seen as a "whitewash", many prominent black Americans are saying they will boycott the ceremony.
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Emanuel doubles down on what he told the media Tuesday -- when he called the decision a "whitewash of justice."
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But we do a disservice to our shared history when we whitewash the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Natasha Mazzone, a senior lawmaker with the opposition Democratic Alliance party, said Zuma was trying to whitewash serious allegations.
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The man who says Mr. Figari abused him when he was 15 said the Vatican's investigation was a whitewash.
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Mr. Wolkoff, intending to raze the building to build condominiums, hired a team to whitewash the building at night.
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When the Obama Justice Department finally acknowledged the IRS scandals, it provided nothing more than a broad-brushed whitewash.
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The White House was painted with lime-based whitewash in 1798 to prevent its porous stone walls from freezing.
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The White House was painted with lime-based whitewash in 1798 to protect its porous stone walls from freezing.
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" • Republicans deemed it a whitewash, with Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri calling it "a smokescreen disguised as a solution.
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" • Republicans deemed it a whitewash, with Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri calling it "a smokescreen disguised as a solution.
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It was Washington's second straight whitewash as backup goalie Philipp Grubauer beat the Los Angeles Kings 5-0 on Sunday.
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You know, how can you just ignore and whitewash — no pun intended — someone's past when they're such a public figure?
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Those opposed to the reburial say that Duterte is attempting to whitewash history and absolve Marcos' impact on the country.
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"I'm a surfer and it reminded me of being in whitewash… only it lasted for about two minutes," he says.
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The GOP-authored document — denounced by Democrats as a partisan whitewash — found no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia.
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Democrats argued that the GOP leader was trying to "whitewash" the investigation of Russia's election meddling and the Trump campaign.
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It is completely legitimate to question an official obituary that seems to whitewash the public record of a public figure.
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But to whitewash aspects of the character that tainted but also enabled and informed his accomplishments would be revising history.
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Israeli politicians say the proposed law will amount to attempt to whitewash history, and stifle further scholarship on the Holocaust.
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They say that the nationalist government is trying to whitewash the role of Poles in one of history's bloodiest chapters.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel called it "a whitewash of justice" and cited Mr. Smollett's celebrity as a factor in the decision.
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Mayor: This is a 'whitewash of justice' Mayor Emanuel accused the actor of using hate-crime laws to promote himself.
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That's true even though the book's author, Jenny Han, had to deal with Hollywood execs trying to whitewash her characters.
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"I am quite a traditional guy," he said after the tourists avoided a whitewash by winning the fifth and final ODI.
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We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.
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The regulator will focus on possible falsified bad-loan dealings between banks and AMCs to "whitewash" their financial statements, they said.
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The whitewash was Smith's fourth career shutout against Anaheim and improved his lifetime record against the Ducks to 13-8-3.
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Both books also tend to whitewash difference in an attempt to talk about a problem whose burden is not equally shared.
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These statues were literally put up long after the Civil War specifically to whitewash history and paint the losers as winners.
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But I suspect that we feel pressure to whitewash the acts of the dead even when only immediate family are present.
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To the producers' credit, they didn't whitewash that from the show, namely that its religious dystopia would require scrubbing out Catholicism.
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"This review is a betrayal and a whitewash," said David Lammy, a Labour lawmaker who has become an outspoken government critic.
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As I noted earlier this week, the goal here is to whitewash Trump's own scandals and attribute them to his enemies.
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Plenty of publications have already enumerated the ways in which The Vietnam War misrepresents history to whitewash US actions in the war.
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Those looking in at the Davos bubble will need more than just lip service and a bland "corporate and social responsibility" whitewash.
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Rarely since the enormities unleashed by Mao Zedong has China seen so egregious an attempt to whitewash an abuse of human rights.
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"The reality is that the government simply has no incentive or necessity to whitewash the real economic picture," writer Zhang Zhongkai wrote.
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That's the good news, but Kev didn't whitewash the bad news -- namely how long Tekashi could be cooling off in a cell.
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If the findings exonerate the president, Trump opponents are more likely to believe the partisan pressure on Mueller led to a whitewash.
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But it's perverse to ignore — and effectively whitewash — the Saudi regime's own malignant character, though that has been U.S. policy for years.
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Also, don't whitewash his legacy and use it to argue that Black people should just take what they're given lying down. 92.
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This means natural pigments such as sienna and oxide-rich whitewash, as well as local building materials, including stone and cotto tiles.
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"I don't want to whitewash this," Sandy Alderson, the Mets' general manager, said before Friday night's game against the San Francisco Giants.
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Clinton's outrageous treatment of her e-mails, which Comey tried to whitewash, and the whole unsavory Obama "unmasking" episode has gone unanswered.
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This is the same Mike Morell who wrote a memoir that tried to whitewash the entire history of the CIA torture program.
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"It is difficult to think that this is anything more than a whitewash of the (Legionaries') image," he said in a tweet.
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One of the greatest animated series of all time is finally getting a live-action adaptation that won't whitewash all of it's characters.
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They called for "true universal suffrage," carrying signs blasting the "scam election" and accusing participants in Sunday's vote of engaging in a whitewash.
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Well, not literally, because whitewash is calcium oxide and marble is calcium carbonate, and the fair's staff was probably painted with white lead.
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"We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful," Harris tweeted.
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Maybe the Manchester students left "If–" just where it should be: blurred but still visible behind Angelou's verses, a shadow in the whitewash.
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Love Story deconstructs the Hollywood tendency to whitewash and, in the process, subverts and exposes it, rendering the practice directly visible and audible.
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He introduces readers to women prisoners "scraping the walls of their cells and using the powder of the whitewash to whiten their complexion".
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel called the decision a "whitewash of justice," while Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson accused Smollett of brokering a deal in secrecy.
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Some saw it as an effort to whitewash Japan's wartime history, while others celebrated the move as a way to correct foreign misinterpretations.
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"I think if we take down the monuments, we should never whitewash history," said Brown while looking at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
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Nadler argued that there was evidence that Senate Republicans and the FBI had overseen a "whitewash" investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh.
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It hired a former U.N. ambassador to conduct a report and investigation, but that ultimately became known as a whitewash of its operations.
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"Hillary Clinton's speech was an attempt to whitewash a record of undermining Israel's interests when she was secretary of state," the statement said.
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As a National Historic Landmark, the responsibility to preserve this history, and not to whitewash it, is something Green-Wood takes very seriously.
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One of the dancers, Kelly Cass Boal, said she believed that the investigation was a whitewash meant to protect management and Mr. Martins.
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Must a musical intended for popular consumption defang the anger of its powerful subject and, in doing so, whitewash her most interesting problems?
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Now he becomes the conservative majority's fifth vote after a bitter confirmation battle and an FBI investigation that Democrats believe was a whitewash.
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But what's especially poignant is to see this particular black man, at this particular moment in history, painted over and over in whitewash.
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The kingdom uses wealth and sports to whitewash its legacy of abuses, and silences those who try to draw attention to this pattern.
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A government-sponsored investigation later found no evidence of any wrongdoing by the three, though it was panned as a whitewash by the opposition.
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The report by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom cleared Yanukovych but was criticized as a whitewash by many Western governments, including the Obama administration.
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Han faced resistance from studios who wanted to whitewash the adaptation of her novel with a white protagonist, and she ultimately turned to Netflix.
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In 2014 student-led protests led to the watering down of a plan to introduce a curriculum that would whitewash the Communist Party's record.
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An internal investigation by the military into the allegations of atrocities that was released this week was branded a "whitewash" by human rights groups.
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This instability does not mean the world should whitewash, say, Roman Polanski's past (the director fled America to dodge a sentence for statutory rape).
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Nevertheless, whatever he does in Hiroshima, he will upset China—which fears another attempt to whitewash Japan's history—and quite a few Americans, too.
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Coverage that connects rural America so frequently to Trump and to the racial resentment that placed him in office is coverage that can whitewash.
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The fact that they don't want the public to see it makes you think they know this was all a whitewash and a charade.
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"There's no attempt to whitewash the city anymore," said Aurelia Rivas, 210, a student working at her parents' fruit and snack stand one afternoon.
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ANDREW SCOTT COOPER BROOKLYN ⬥ To the Editor: I appreciated Azadeh Moaveni's incisive review of Andrew Scott Cooper's attempted whitewash of the shah of Iran.
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"We cannot whitewash that, we cannot hide it, and on King Day, we should be able to have that candid discussion," Jeffries said Wednesday.
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But the opposition has already dismissed the move as a whitewash, as it will be headed by a Freedom Party politician, historian Wilhelm Brauneder.
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In an interview, Franzoni explained he envisioned Leonardo DiCaprio in the role; commenters are not pleased, saying that casting decision would whitewash the role.
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But he took issue with his decision to whitewash the art without prior notice or regard for the artists' ability to preserve their work.
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"They experienced the benefit of their bargain: I give you my dead rat on a string, you let me whitewash your fence," she said.
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Human rights groups poured scorn on the military's investigation, branding it a "whitewash" and calling for U.N. and independent investigators to be allowed into Myanmar.
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For many Britons, a report that fails to heap opprobrium on Blair and his senior team of ministers will be nothing more than a whitewash.
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But its sequel is a whitewash: the young Vito Corleone transformed seemingly overnight from a loving husband into a homicidal, yet still essentially decent, Don.
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Kim's post manages to whitewash and ignore the rich origins of a look that isn't just a protective style, but a tie to African heritage.
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Although the portraits are favorable, they don't whitewash the thornier aspects of these complicated careers and lives, including Dre's brutal assault on journalist Dee Barnes.
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"This is without a doubt a whitewash of justice," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said at a press conference where he and police blasted the dismissal.
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They used to whitewash the personality out of the humans involved [in spaceflight], and I think really, that was a holdover from the Cold War.
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Democrats called the FBI report a whitewash and said the White House placed constraints on the FBI, which did not speak to many potential witnesses.
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In 2005 a controversial change to Japanese history textbooks, seen to whitewash Imperial Japan's sins, led to riots in China and boycotts of Japanese businesses.
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"Placing all of the blame on USAG and none on the Karolyis is a whitewash," attorney John Manly said in a statement sent to CNN.
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Of course, all nations whitewash their bloody histories in the course of creating a heroic narrative about their stirring rise to power and global influence.
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" And Mr. Cooper called it "a superficial whitewash of a situation that was and remains far uglier and more damaging than his film lets on.
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Since dawn, Gertrude and I have been waiting outside the house, leaning against the windowsill, the sleeves and fronts of our dresses smudged with whitewash.
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Fires in the Republic of Ireland's County Wicklow exposed a text sign written into the landscape in whitewash, reading "Eire," the Irish word for Ireland.
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Pena Nieto was later cleared by a government-led investigation that critics derided as a whitewash, and the episode did lasting damage to his authority.
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But instead of trying to whitewash that history, today we are more prone to acknowledge it as a spur toward better treatment of one another.
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Human rights group Amnesty International said the verdict was a "whitewash" that failed to address the Saudi authorities' involvement or the location of Khashoggi's remains.
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Specifically, it's about the bloody history of colonialism, and that history's refusal to stay buried, no matter how eager we are to whitewash our sins.
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It can also serve as a convenient whitewash for those in power who happily ignore the racial inequality and racism that they are responsible for.
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I mean, they so desperately want to whitewash this and they cover for Hillary Clinton that they&aposll literally do anything, say anything, to blame Fox.
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Determined to stifle dissent at home and whitewash its image abroad, the kingdom has deprived itself of valuable input on a bold but flawed reform agenda.
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They filed suit in Federal District Court in Brooklyn shortly after Mr. Wolkoff destroyed their art, sending in a team of painters to whitewash the graffiti.
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Ahluwalia says while he feels empathy for a man who was an "accidental gangster," there is no attempt to whitewash Gawli's crimes, including several alleged murders.
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In the years following the Nuremberg trials, there was an increasingly concerted effort to whitewash the record of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of the Third Reich.
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"However, it would not be much of a whitewash by the statistics bureau to indulge in fabrication as such moves would inevitably draw widespread skepticism," wrote Zhang.
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To their credit, Airbnb chose not to go down the PR path of simply trying to play down the issue and whitewash it out of the press.
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Although it was derided as a whitewash by some, John Mann, a Labour MP who leads the all-party parliamentary group against anti-Semitism, welcomed the report.
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Shahaf Weisbein, an Israeli activist with the left-wing Women for Peace group, denounced the video as a "disgrace" that "whitewash(es) the apartheid reality" of Palestinians.
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But Transparency International, the anti-corruption organization, has warned that it is not just money—the schools also have the power to whitewash the shadiest family reputation.
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Additionally, the senators argued that the report "goes to nearly heroic efforts to whitewash" the fact that only a small percentage of eligible taxpayers use the program.
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Opponents of the burial, which included many people tortured during Mr. Marcos's long rule, argued that the decision was part of an effort to whitewash the period.
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Yet they said that even employees of Mercury and Podesta regarded the report as a "whitewash" that did little to address valid concerns about Mr. Yanukovych's government.
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"We would not want to whitewash our history by pretending that Jim Crow and disenfranchisement or massive resistance to the civil rights movement never happened," he said.
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"We can't whitewash the ethnonationalist sentiment, which is the reality," said Zerihun Teshome, an Addis Ababa-based political analyst and chief executive of a local media company.
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In a statement that echoes the concern of many human rights groups, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International's Middle East research director, earlier today called the verdict a "whitewash."
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Repeatedly calling the decision a "whitewash of justice," Emanuel said the deal struck between the actor and the prosecutor's office threatens to render hate crime laws toothless.
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A similar desire to whitewash the past informs the institution that Paul Ramsay has left Australians as his legacy: the Ramsay Center for Western Civilization in Sydney.
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Corruption campaigners have long denounced the inquiry, set up by Zuma in 2011 and headed by Judge Willie Seriti, as a "whitewash" and challenged its findings in court.
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Last year lawmakers made it illegal to accuse "the Polish nation" of complicity in the Holocaust, prompting claims that the nationalist government was trying to whitewash its history.
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Lee has previously said he doesn't support removing a bust of Forrest from the Tennessee State capitol because he doesn't want to "whitewash history," The Washington Post noted.
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"After the FBI and Department of Justice whitewash of the Clinton email crimes, they certainly cannot be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton's crimes," Trump said.
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"The question was whether the Human Rights Council actually supports human rights or is merely a showcase for dictatorships that use their membership to whitewash brutality," Haley wrote.
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A year later, Marvel released Young Allies #1, a "multi-racial group of patriotic kids" and amongst their ranks were Bucky Barnes, Knuckles, Tubby, Jeff, and Whitewash Jones.
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Tom Brady threw three touchdown passes in New England's Week 1 whitewash of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Patriots are about to welcome Antonio Brown to their offense.
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Mr. Hernando, of Migrante International, said the group feared a whitewash investigation of Mr. Rafael's death, and demanded that another autopsy be carried out by an independent body.
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A virtual art gallery is an admirable way to celebrate Black History Month, considering the art world's historical tendency to whitewash and erase black voices from museum walls.
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Either the impeachment trial will be a real, substantive fact-finding process that will move us towards the truth, or it will be a meaningless, illegitimate political whitewash.
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On Wednesday, he delivered a scathing review of Myanmar's attempts to whitewash those events and challenged the government's claims that it was willing to take the refugees back.
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" But another complained that the removals were "a rather pathetic attempt at propaganda, the sort of thing the Stalinists used to do, trying to whitewash something out of existence.
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They will whitewash us like they've done to the news, to his supporters, and to everyone who falls deep into white supremacy—even my own father has fallen suit.
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In six months or a year from now, newspaper reports won't even mention it when talking about Lee — just as they whitewash biographies of the rest of Samsung family.
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The impulse to check white folks before they get out of pocket is not unjustified when you consider the way history has tried to whitewash and erase black culture.
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When buyers of bitcoin talk about blockchain, dangerous governments or the coming apocalypse they are merely putting a thin whitewash of intellectual respectability over their craving for capital gains.
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Conservatives like Continetti have good reason for wanting to whitewash this fact and now they have an ally in Dowd, who is mainstreaming their self-serving version of history.
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Of the thousands of comments on the photo, many of them addressed the fact that the group was mostly comprised of white people, with hashtags like #WhiteWash and #RepublicansSoWhite.
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He acted without hesitation not to whitewash anything or anybody, but to preserve both the integrity of the FBI and the investigation it is conducting and he is leading.
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Staring at a series whitewash after four defeats, India rode Pandey's scintillating 104 off 2118 balls to chase down a 217.3-run victory target with two balls to spare.
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When converting her den into a playroom last year, Emily Cisz, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mother in Hilton, N.Y., decided to whitewash the dated parquet floors.
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Men and women in the harasser's department, in the meantime, are left with the impression that either the report was a whitewash or the company chose to do nothing.
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A trader named Christian Bittar was in line for a $100 million bonus; when this (unsurprisingly) prompted an internal review, Deutsche staged a whitewash and Bittar got his check.
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The troubles began not long after that, as economic and political competition between Tokyo and Beijing reignited old disputes over contested islands and Japanese efforts to whitewash wartime atrocities.
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Bahrain was the first in 2004 but the race has proved controversial, with rights groups accusing the country's rulers of using it to 'whitewash' abuses and improve their image abroad.
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Both Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago police superintendent Eddie T. Johnson have publicly criticized the dropping of charges against Smollett, with Emanuel calling it "an unbelievable whitewash of justice."
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In both places, and especially in the antebellum South, the eras the myths commemorate and whitewash were brief, blinks in history that have come to loom disproportionately in cultural memory.
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"Most of us would agree that there's no way we're participating in any form of cover-up or whitewash, so we will walk away if the moment requires," said Rep.
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"The professed shock they now express, as well as their promise to investigate, are just lip service: as before, their 'thorough investigation' will once again whitewash the truth," he said.
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Ebony White and Whitewash Jones are characters that unfortunately could fit into any cultural zeitgeist because black people as mere comedic sidekicks to white supremacy is a never-ending trope.
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They were people like me who had watched Hollywood whitewash things, and watched roles go away because someone said an Asian man can't be the lead of this or that.
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Though he didn't entirely whitewash the American defeat, which he called "damned humiliating," Pyle's artful narrative lent purpose and dignity to events that perhaps should have been probed more critically.
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" It also accused the organization of attempting to co-opt and whitewash the local movement, which is primarily led by queer people of color, saying there were "fundamental ideological differences.
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City workers who had been dispatched to whitewash the cellars of some of these buildings instead found over 3,900 barrels worth of trash, including "a large number" of dead animals.
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Missions under the aegis of the African Union and the Southern African Development Community are likely to whitewash the election, provided it is non-violent, as they have always done before.
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Uber's former CEO Travis Kalanick held regular meetings with the Otto team before the company was officially formed, and Uber's due diligence investigation into Otto seemed designed to whitewash the deal.
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"Although U.S. and South Korean authorities are playing every trick to justify this military exercise, they can neither conceal nor whitewash its aggressive nature in any manner," Ju told the forum.
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In February, it appears someone paid to publish an article on the site as part of an ongoing effort to whitewash Donald J. Trump's relationship with Russian-born businessman Felix Sater.
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The government has set up a series of committees to investigate allegations of atrocities by the army, but several foreigners invited to sit on them have quit, describing them as whitewash.
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To the latter point, it's not unlike the kind of reasoning that leads studios to whitewash roles, thinking a white protagonist might be more relatable, symbols and cultural paraphernalia more universal.
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The Russian shtetl in the long-lost, newly reconstructed Yiddish operetta "The Golden Bride" has a dreamy look about it, all latticework and whitewash, like the setting for a garden party.
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This is a point that Faith Ringgold and We Wanted a Revolution both make ardently clear: we cannot continue to whitewash the histories of those women who society has systemically failed.
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"This report is another complete whitewash and another demonstrable failure of the regulator to perform its role," said Kevin Hollinrake, co-chair of parliament's all-party group for fair business banking.
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However, carved right into the structure of the building, in the dark corners and beneath the whitewash on the walls, are less visible traces of the lower and middle class: graffiti.
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It has all the markings of a whitewash -- it's led by retired army general Myint Swe, a man formerly blacklisted by the US government -- and doesn't include a single Muslim commissioner.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Saturday that Saudi Arabia's explanation of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul appeared to be a whitewash of "an appalling assassination".
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Fast bowler and fellow antagonist Glenn McGrath suggested that the series could be a whitewash in the months leading up to the contest, while most Australian pundits were confident of victory.
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With nothing meaningful to say about our future, we've retreated into the falsehoods of the past, painting over the absence of certainty at our core with a whitewash of poisonous nostalgia.
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In particular, American officials were worried that the Mexicans would try to trumpet the involvement of the United States to lend an appearance of credibility to a whitewash, the officials said.
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It passed a law for access to information, and another to protect whistle-blowers, but also supports a reconciliation law for businessmen under investigation that opponents say would whitewash their crimes.
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"(Citing) the German occupation is no excuse but at most an attempt to whitewash the past," he said at a recent event marking the murder of Jews at another Budapest location.
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Once you see the facts this way, the agonizing by MIT's leadership over how to deprive Epstein of any ability to publicize the gifts, and thus "whitewash" his reputation, seems misplaced.
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While she may hope that her comments now will whitewash her previously unspoken support for Trump, the truth is Northern Virginia voters already understand how deeply linked Trump and Comstock are.
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Archaeological investigations beginning in the 1980s demonstrated that what appeared to be exposed stonework was in fact an accretion of dirt hiding decaying whitewash and two layers of paint, she said.
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"There's a long history of the establishment of commissions that essentially serve to whitewash human rights violations in Rakhine state," said Matthew Smith, co-founder of the Thailand-based Fortify Rights.
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Seppi brushed aside India's No. 1, Prajnesh Gunneswaran, 6-1, 6-43, in the first reverse singles match on Kolkata's grass court after India avoided a whitewash by taking the doubles.
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"You cannot just whitewash everything," she told him, her voice rising with passion as she spoke of a young black man who had been assaulted by a police officer in Fort Worth.
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But as we've said from day one about the trip: This administration will stand in the way of Kim's desire to whitewash their murderous regime with nice photo ops at the Olympics.
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But what's most galling about the book is that it uses the veneer of art and assumed cultural value to whitewash the realities of how many of these spaces came to be.
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The Economist once asked a rightist, whose publications glorify the emperor system and whitewash Japan's wartime aggression, how he felt about having a liberal emperor who disagreed with nearly all his views.
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Seconds earlier, he had clumsily fumbled the football as he toppled forward, an embarrassing pratfall that resulted in another touchdown in the Tennessee Titans' 303-0 whitewash of the Giants on Sunday.
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The Palestinian Authority and its supporters began to speak of Israel's "water apartheid" and characterized attempts to point out the absurdity of that claim as "bluewashing" — an attempt to whitewash Palestinian grievances.
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Bigger-picture, they also want to know whether his attorneys were working on the taxpayers' dime to whitewash any misdeeds by the president rather than protecting the institution of the presidency itself.
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I had tried to whitewash my blackness, polished myself to a colorless sheen, held myself up for his inspection, searching for the best light in which to stand to make him forget.
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He is remembered for trying to whitewash the deaths of thousands of people by a U.S.-funded death squads in El Salvador, when he was assistant secretary of state for human rights.
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And since the farm was President Carter's one and only recognizable business, doing any kind of shady deal connected to it would have been very hard to conceal or whitewash in some way.
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In order to gauge the moral repugnance of anyone who'd willingly take thousands of dollars to whitewash a government like Azerbaijan, it's worth running through the nauseating record of the government in Baku.
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And when conservatives do delve into the history of Buckley and National Review, they almost always (with a few brave exceptions) whitewash the past to ignore or minimize the role played by racism.
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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Friday slammed the current state of the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying nations use their membership to "whitewash brutality" and calling for major changes.
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Some remembered the help extended by individual Poles, but many more were outraged at what they saw as a Polish government effort to whitewash the crimes of Poles who collaborated with the Nazis.
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Mr. Soto and I gazed across the maw at a scene of otherworldly bleakness: A curving wall, tinted green, splattered with bird feces, or whitewash, and riven with crevices, formed the volcano's lip.
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At one point, a replica of the "Black Madonna of Czestochowa," one of Poland's most revered Catholic icons, will be lowered into view, Mr. Skrzywanek said, and the actors will whitewash her face.
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The legislation, which Poland said was necessary to defend its international reputation, drew a huge outcry from Israel, the United States and European allies, who said it was an attempt to whitewash history.
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"And in a public forum as huge as Facebook to have to, for lack of a better word, whitewash everything just so we can share and communicate stories on that platform is extremely troubling."
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Or it can whitewash and transform the original so much that it loses what made the thing great to begin with, like Ghost in the Shell or M. Night Shyamalan's Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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The controversy plays into broader discussions about diversity in Hollywood and the tendency to "whitewash" biopics, especially when they involve people of color, by casting actors who conform to white and European beauty standards.
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And in an appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus brushed off suggestions Trump's team was trying to "whitewash" history and said he didn't regret the statement.
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Not only was the backdrop ancient Egypt, which for years historians have tried to whitewash and erase the blackness of its earlier inhabitants, but here were black bodies dancing, laughing, living, and loving. Carefree.
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A pair of GOP lawmakers urged Twitter to ban scores of Chinese government accounts that attempt to "spread propaganda and whitewash" evidence suggesting China downplayed and covered-up early indications of the coronavirus's impact.Sen.
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It is as intriguing as the whitewash of the David Alfaro Siqueiros "America Tropical" in 1932, a mural on the side of the Plaza Art Center that was controversial the moment it was dedicated.
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But the bigger pattern on display here, which Earth Fund continues, is that Bezos consistently gives minuscule crumbs of his wealth to whitewash his company's own track record on the environment and other issues.
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Trump and Modi are two sides of the same coin -- they're both authoritarian leaders who intimidate and exclude marginalized communities, chill the free press, and champion fake news and propaganda to whitewash their atrocities.
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This is an unbelievable not just whitewash of justice; this is a person now who's been let off scot-free with no sense of accountability of the moral and ethical wrong of his actions.
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Prior to the 2000th century, Italian words like sgraffito or sgraffiato were used to describe decorative techniques — in architecture as well as on pottery —where scratching through a whitewash revealed a different color beneath.
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The report, sent by the White House to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the middle of the night, was denounced by Democrats as a whitewash that was too narrow in scope and ignored critical witnesses.
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"The main reason I am resigning is that this advisory board is a whitewash," Richardson told Reuters in an interview, adding he did not want to be part of "a cheerleading squad for the government".
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LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - Human rights campaigners have urged Formula One management to cancel next week's Bahrain Grand Prix, accusing the country's rulers of using the race to "whitewash" abuses and improve their image abroad.
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Israeli-Polish relations have been in crisis since the PiS government passed the Holocaust law, which many Jews consider an attempt to whitewash history, and the ceremony gave Mr Duda a chance to mend fences.
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The World Economic Forum, among others, gave the Azeri regime a platform to talk about its financial success—which is used to whitewash crimes ranging from the jailing of dissidents to the theft of billions.
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Paradoxically, the West's sanctions against business figures closest to the Russian president helped whitewash some of the most notoriously corrupt Russian oligarchs and allow Russian propaganda to present them as selfless defenders of the motherland.
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Critics felt the New York Review gave Ghomeshi space to whitewash the accusations against him by more than 20 women of various forms of sexual misconduct, including acts of violence such as punching and choking.
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International members of one of these commissions — including Bill Richardson, the former United States ambassador to the United Nations — have quit in protest this year, saying they did not want to participate in a whitewash.
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But by the late 1960s, "America Tropical" had begun to reappear from under the whitewash, and it came to be seen as a symbol of ethnic revelation and a banner for the Chicano mural movement.
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By using the Grand Mosque to whitewash acts of despotism and oppression, Prince Mohammed has placed the very legitimacy of the Saudi control and guardianship of the holy places of Mecca and Medina in question.
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"Most of us would agree that there's no way we're participating in any form of cover-up or whitewash, so we will walk away if the moment requires," said Representative Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut.
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In the meantime, execs have gone to great lengths to whitewash Asian roles from films, including casting Scarlett Johansson as Major Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell and Emma Stone as Allison Ng in Aloha.
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The bill was eventually watered down — made into a civil, rather than criminal offense — after it drew a huge outcry from Israel, the United States and European allies, who labeled it an attempt to whitewash history.
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By appointing Mr. MacCrate, who brought in a second civilian lawyer, Jerome K. Walsh Jr., as his assistant, the Army hoped to reassure critics of the war that the new investigation would not be a whitewash.
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Mr. Fallenberg said he was loath to cover any of the original stones in whitewash, but his architect, an expert in local restoration, convinced him that there could be such a thing as too much stonework.
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The opposition accused Andrade of a whitewash when the months-long probe exonerated all three of wrongdoing, just as the president was pledging to get tough on entrenched political corruption in Latin America's No. 2 economy.
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But many in Israel and the United States have reacted with alarm, seeing the law as an attempt to whitewash the historical truth that some ethnic Poles were indeed complicit in Nazi crimes against Polish Jews.
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HONG KONG — The photographer Li Zhensheng is on a mission to make his fellow Chinese remember one of the most turbulent chapters in modern Chinese history that the ruling Communist Party is increasingly determined to whitewash.
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Fellow lawmaker Kevin Hollinrake, who is co-chair of parliament's all-party group for fair business banking, called the FCA's report "another complete whitewash" and said it demonstrated the regulator was failing to perform its role.
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The second part of the law, which makes it illegal to accuse "the Polish nation" of complicity in the genocide, has attracted criticism and prompted claims that the nationalist government is trying to whitewash its history.
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After a short summary was released clearing both Russia and Qatar of wrongdoing, Garcia publicly denounced it as a whitewash, tried to appeal it and later resigned from his position as FIFA ethics investigator in protest.
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Now many conservative white brothers and sisters and many radical right-wingers of all races have attempted to distort Martin Luther King Jr&aposs memory, to whitewash him of the social context of his racial ideas.
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" Ms. Thompson-Spires was inspired by James McCune Smith, a 19th-century abolitionist and doctor whose brief stories about various characters were published under the title "Heads of the Colored People, Done With a Whitewash Brush.
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Even though a lot of the anti-immigrant sentiments in Europe are aimed at other ethnicities, I'm worried about the barbed treatment I might get, or suspicions that I'm trying to 'mask' or 'whitewash' my identity.
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In December some activists denounced the listing process as a whitewash and had called for the inclusion in the blacklist of some EU countries accused of facilitating tax avoidance, like Luxembourg, Malta, Ireland and the Netherlands.
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And they see every evolution the ban has undergone since then, as a campaign proposal and then a presidential policy, as coat after coat of whitewash: putting a veneer of legality over a patently discriminatory idea.
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So when the media lets Trump whitewash prejudiced views as genuine disagreement, that reinforces the idea that a racist or sexist view is simply a different idea, not something that we shouldn't tolerate as a society.
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Daniel M. Gitner, a lawyer for Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., of Competitive Power Ventures, said the government had tried to "whitewash" Mr. Howe out of their closing arguments, even after they "touted" him in their openings.
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"This is an unbelievable — not just whitewash of justice, this is a person now who has been let off scot-free with no sense of accountability of the moral and ethical wrong of his actions," he said.
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Schools and official histories whitewash the movement and gloss over the violence, hewing closely to an official party verdict, five years after Mao's death ended the Cultural Revolution, that it had been a major and costly mistake.
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"Our view is that they are trying to whitewash the August 1 event by making a false equivalence between the demonstrators and those who were shooting unarmed protesters using bullets and guns," MDC spokesman Jacob Mafume said.
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And one of the figures that Grenell saw fit to whitewash, time and again, was none other than Plahotniuc, who just happened to be running an outsize, and notorious, lobbying operation in Washington at the same time.
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It came as senators were still absorbing the results of the confidential F.B.I. inquiry — an investigation that Republicans said found no evidence to corroborate the claims of Dr. Blasey and others, and that Democrats branded a whitewash.
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Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, declared the F.B.I. efforts to be "a whitewash" and vowed to open a new investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations if Democrats take control of the House in November's elections.
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Smollett's attorneys saw it as vindication, but Chicago Mayor at the time Rahm Emmanuel described it as a "whitewash of justice" that sends a message that people with power and influence are held to a different standard.
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Denouncing the report as a whitewash and accusing Republicans of "subverting" the investigation, the Democrats issued their own report focusing on their now-debunked conspiracy theory that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to hack the elections.
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"(It is) unacceptable to use a state institution to attempt to whitewash the reputation of thieves and corrupt individuals who have looted Venezuela," said Guaido, pounding a lectern as he read from notes during a press conference.
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They worry that they're being used to whitewash the program, and claim they don't actually have as much power to allow migrants to stay in the US if they're in danger as the Trump administration has publicly stated.
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And though I am aware that job discrimination is a real problem that causes many people to whitewash their résumés and adopt pseudonyms, the idea that people of color and immigrants 'must' assimilate for others' comfort is infuriating.
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None of the nominees for acting and directing awards were people of color despite a plethora of worthy candidates, an astonishing whitewash, and the Academy's failure to adequately recognize non-white talent extended to the Oscars' technical categories.
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To publicly embrace the enemy's most subversive soft power is to whitewash his menacing totalitarian self as a reform-minded, confident, well-meaning and — perish the thought — even "hip" young leader presiding over a not-so-abnormal nation.
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Even this week, as HBO's Girls rolls out its final sixth season, it's hard to believe that season after season a show this popular can still whitewash an entire demographic of Black and brown people and that's okay.
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Ever since Paramount shared the first image of Scarlett Johansson as the Major in Ghost in the Shell, the film's been under fire for its decision to whitewash the lead role, who is Japanese in the source material.
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"This option needs to be taken seriously now that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced his intention to conduct not a real trial but a whitewash, letting the president and his legal team call the shots," he wrote.
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A probe into spending on the Rio 2016 Olympics kicked off this week and has already been dismissed by some as a whitewash or, as Brazilians say, vai acabar em pizza — it's going to end up as pizza.
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American leaders have always been mythologized; throughout the country's history, there's been a concerted effort by supporters to whitewash political leaders — presidents especially — and minimize the worst actions they took in the course of their stewardship of the country.
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Orban has repeatedly declared a policy of zero tolerance on anti-Semitism but has also risked angering Jews with remarks about "ethnic homogeneity" apparently aimed at right-wing voters and has been accused of trying to whitewash Hungary's past.
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During a segment on his show Monday night, Carlson mocked CNN media reporter Brian Stelter, whom he repeatedly referred to as a "eunuch," accusing him of trying to whitewash the network's coverage of the Russia investigation on Zucker's behalf.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Friday's foursomes whitewash was "right at the top" of Ryder Cup sessions in memory, European captain Thomas Bjorn said after his team turned around a disappointing morning to close the first day with a 5-3 lead.
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The Saudi kingdom is providing "more whitewash than white paper," lawyers for the family members said in a statement, following a Politico report about a 104-page memo detailing Saudi Arabia's fight against terrorism that is circulating around Congress.
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READ: Myanmar tries to "whitewash" its Rohingya crimes by jailing journalists One Rohingya leader said the impact of the ban will be huge, as it will disrupt communications between different camps scattered across the border district of Cox's Bazar.
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In response to the controversies over Swinton and Johansson playing Asian characters, Marc Bernardin wrote an essay for the Los Angeles Times about the importance of diversity and representation and what happens when you whitewash a character of color.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose police department spent many hours on the case, called the decision a "whitewash of justice," and other critics seized on their belief that prosecutors had let Mr. Smollett off with just two days of service.
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Kennedy, conscious of compiling the first draft of history, has copy approval, and one of the more abrasive touches of the film is the manner in which she halts her narration of events to apply a touch of whitewash.
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Vice President Pence's spokeswoman on Saturday warned people not to "whitewash North Korea's record" while responding to a CNN story on how the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was "stealing the show" at the Winter Olympics.
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And it was important to me not to whitewash Bernie Sanders but to be consistent and intellectually honest in pointing out where the things Bernie Sanders has advocated and espouses are inconsistent with things we've said we believe in the past.
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But, because of a special whitewash mechanism, it will not force Mediaset's large shareholders- including Berlusconi's family holding Fininvest - to launch a mandatory bid on Mediaset should their stakes go past the allowed legal threshold as a result of the buyback.
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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Lawmakers in El Salvador agreed on Thursday to suspend a controversial amnesty bill following an outcry from victims' families, the United Nations and rights groups who said it aimed to whitewash crimes committed during a bloody civil war.
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The buyback was approved with a special whitewash mechanism, which will not force the Berlusconi family to launch a mandatory bid on the Milan-based TV group should their stake exceed the threshold that would normally trigger an automatic takeover bid.
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The Polish ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) has revived the issue of war reparations at a time when Israeli politicians accuse it of attempting to whitewash the role of Poles in German war crimes against Jews during the conflict.
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The controversy touches on a sensitive topic for Poland, which passed a law last year making it illegal to accuse "the Polish nation" of complicity in the Holocaust, prompting claims that the nationalist government was trying to whitewash its history.
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The review he led recommended that no action be taken against agency staff members for their actions, and the report was widely considered in the Senate as a whitewash of what senators considered a serious violation of the separation of powers.
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In that role, his support for keeping an image of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, in a city mural drew the ire of the N.A.A.C.P. "Much of our history is not pleasant; you can't whitewash it," Mr. Kaine said then.
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They would like to pull those statues down because the Confederacy and the men who ran it have been celebrated over the last century and a half as part of a concerted and organized campaign to whitewash their traitorous tenure.
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What I wanted was to find a balance—it's supposed to be a kind of celebration, but I also didn't want to whitewash it... At the end of the film, all the band members say they should have quit after Knebworth.
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The report — which has been dismissed as an "expensive whitewash" by victims — said the BBC's hierarchical structure, lack of cohesion, macho culture, climate of not complaining, and deference towards celebrity allowed Savile to repeatedly get away with what he had done.
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He used his money and influence over the press to attempt to whitewash his past as the racist mayor of New York City in order to remind everyone how insanely rich he was—and ensure he could stay that way.
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"But it increasingly appears that Turkey is seeking to inflict maximum damage on M.B.S." It is not clear what Mr. Erdogan is demanding, but the policy of official leaks has been clearly to prevent a complete whitewash of the disappearance.
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They hope that the charge of "separatism" will whitewash decades of policy errors in the run-up to the monumental thrashing they are expected to take in next month's local elections as a prelude to the presidential contest in 2022.
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Veteran U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar to advise on the Rohingya crisis, saying it was conducting a "whitewash" and accusing the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi of lacking "moral leadership".
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - B'Tselem, one of Israel's leading human rights groups, said on Wednesday it would no longer refer complaints of abuse carried out by Israeli soldiers to Israeli military courts because the system was biased and set up to whitewash cases.
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Regardless of what actual events have shaped her life, her failure to cope is the inevitable result of living in a society that perpetually expects its members to repress emotion and whitewash history for the sake of preserving a polite veneer.
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Poland's senate passed a controversial bill that would make it illegal to link the Polish people or state to the crimes of the Holocaust, ignoring Washington's objections and outraging many Israelis who see it as an attempt to whitewash history.
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Kobsak's departure has dealt another blow to the credibility of the body, after veteran U.S. politician Bill Richardson, walked out of its first set of meetings in January, dubbing it a "whitewash" and "cheerleading operation" for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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However, Holocaust survivors and other Jews in Israel and the United States feared that it would stifle discussion about the Holocaust and enable Poland to whitewash the role of the Poles who killed or denounced Jews during the German wartime occupation of Poland.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar to advise on the Rohingya crisis, saying it was conducting a "whitewash" and accusing the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi of lacking "moral leadership".
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There is some irony in the fact that as an individual, the famous letters and essays Seneca wrote would not only have a bigger impact than his work in politics but also in time would whitewash his contributions to a horrible regime.
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Still, it is surreal for a city to commemorate both the achievements of the civil-rights movement—documenting the white-supremacist rhetoric and violence that attempted to arrest it—while also preserving Confederate memorials that whitewash the underlying cause of the conflict.
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The panel suffered an early setback when veteran U.S. politician Bill Richardson, one of five original international members, walked out of its first set of meetings in January, dubbing it a "whitewash" and "cheerleading operation" for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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PARKLAND SCHOOL SHOOTER NIKOLAS CRUZ WAS REFERRED TO DISCIPLINE PROGRAM, DESPITE OFFICIAL&aposS DENIALS But Cruz's attorneys called the report a "whitewash" commissioned by the district to absolve it of responsibility for its handling of Cruz's psychological problems, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
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Yet filmmakers Adrian Buitenhuis and Derik Murray's access to that footage and to those close to Ledger -- including his parents and sister, as well as associates and peers -- results in such a hazy, adoring enterprise as to feel like a bit of whitewash.
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Humiliated and embarrassed by her performance, the 2017 U.S. Open champion roared with relief when she prevented the whitewash and then, remarkably, carried the momentum on to a 0-03 6-4 6-1 victory and a Sunday showdown against Elina Svitolina.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A documentary about the life of renowned guitarist Eric Clapton does not attempt to whitewash over the darker side of the hard-drinking musician's life, even though it is directed by his longtime friend, filmmaker Lili Fini Zanuck said Monday.
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Speaking on the eve of Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation vote this weekend, Mr. Nadler said that there was evidence that Senate Republicans and the F.B.I. had overseen a "whitewash" investigation of the allegations and that the legitimacy of the Supreme Court was at stake.
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" (The production declined to make Ms. Mueller available for an interview.) Mr. Rudin, who frequently produces revivals of plays and musicals, noted that "half of the great works depict troubled relationships, and I don't think it makes any sense to whitewash them.
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" And the lawsuit explicitly linked Sackler do-gooding with Sackler harm-doing: "Ultimately, the Sacklers used their ill-gotten wealth to cover up their misconduct with a philanthropic campaign intending to whitewash their decades-long success in profiting at New Yorkers' expense.
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And Netanyahu's office is trying to negotiate a compromise with Hungary over the contents of a museum that many fear will whitewash Hungary's role in the Nazi genocide of the Jews, essentially putting Israel's imprimatur on a modified form of Holocaust revisionism.
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Senior administration officials are outraged over China's propaganda campaign playing up its efforts at sending medical supplies around the world — a clear attempt to whitewash the party's reputation both at home and abroad after a bungled response to the outbreak, American officials say.
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" The Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv responded, saying that Mr. Lapid's "unsupportable claims show how badly Holocaust education is needed, even here in Israel," and that the legislation was intended "not to 'whitewash' the past, but to protect the truth against such slander.
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Palestinians and their supporters in the international boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, which opposes Israel's policies, have accused Israel of using Eurovision to whitewash the occupation, and of "pink-washing," since Eurovision is also a highlight of the gay glam culture calendar.
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The unrest followed an event that had been notable for not being the whitewash many predicted, with Lam directly facing off with an often critical and hostile audience, still aggrieved at the havoc they blame on the Beijing-backed leader and her team.
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Even in 2019, principals and teachers deem it appropriate to dress their children up as Natives and celebrate "an annual Pow Wow," and then post pictures on social media, before being yelled at and quickly deleting their appropriative efforts to whitewash history.
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The unrest followed an event that had been notable for not being the whitewash many predicted, with Lam directly facing off with an often critical and hostile audience, still aggrieved at the havoc they blame on the Beijing-backed leader and her team.
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And renewed scrutiny on the report, which an Obama State Department official panned as "incomplete" the day after its release and was subsequently called a "whitewash" by experts, has led to criticism of the firm's willingness to rent its reputation to unsavory clients.
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Indeed, one might have expected Marton, who has written of her experience as a victim of anti-Semitism in Hungary, to have understood the unstated connection of these works with the attempt to whitewash or avoid mention of the stain of Vichy.
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"If we indulge crimes and breaches of the law, even whitewash, exonerate or give them support, that would be a blatant challenge to the rule of law in Hong Kong, which will eventually hurt the interest of all the Hong Kong people," he said.
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In a 3-0 whitewash that lasted just one-and-a-half hours, China's Li Xiaoxia and Liu Shiwen utilised booming smashes and prodigious spin shots to overcome Han Ying and Petrissa Solja of Germany without dropping a game in the opening singles matches.
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Under UK Takeover Panel rules, an investor with a stake of 30 percent or more must make a takeover bid for the rest of the company, but this can be avoided with a "whitewash agreement" that would have to be approved by independent shareholders.
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When I go down to his house after school, do my chores, we used to have a practice and it was 301, double in double out, and they used to whitewash me and I would never get off that board until I won a game.
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Since the Kremlin makes for a terrible counterterrorism partner in Syria or elsewhere, since its interests are opposed to ours as I recently testified, the administration and Congress must staunchly resist Putin's efforts to recast Moscow's role and whitewash the atrocities Russian forces have committed.
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"We have to assure the American people either that it was a fair process and that the new justice did not commit perjury, did not do these terrible things, or reveal that we just don't know because the investigation was a whitewash," Mr. Nadler said.
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So with a nihilistic tip of the hat to the political spectacle that impeachment has turned into, but given the damning state of the record to date, on the question of witnesses, here is to hoping McConnell is successful in orchestrating a Senate whitewash.
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The human costs were past counting, and the whitewash was both institutional and personal, extended to one general after another, including many of the same officers whose plans and orders had either fizzled or failed to create lasting success, and yet who kept rising.
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" The lawsuit also delves into the Sacklers status as major art and culture philanthropists, stating: "Ultimately, the Sacklers used their ill-gotten wealth to cover up their misconduct with a philanthropic campaign intending to whitewash their decades-long success in profiting at New Yorkers' expense.
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When you combine this performance with the hash Nunes made out of his tenure, it suggests that Conaway will have a lot of work to do to reassure Democrats and the public that the House investigation will be a bipartisan, credible affair rather than a whitewash.
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If neoliberalism references a political-economic logic of deregulation, privatization, tax cuts, and austerity that since the late 1970s has prescribed policies that produced socioeconomic urban and rural wastelands for black communities, then we must interrogate the economic values that animate, whitewash and quarantine civil rights history.
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If we remember the gay rights movement as entirely male, or the women's liberation movement as entirely white—if we whitewash the past—then it becomes less imperative for those in the present to ensure our movements are equitable and designed to represent those most needing representation.
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"While the coronavirus pandemic is afflicting families, governments, and markets around the world, the Chinese Communist Party is waging a massive propaganda campaign to rewrite the history of COVID-19 and whitewash the Party's lies to the Chinese people and the world," the GOP senators said.
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as M.B.S., has repeatedly manipulated Trump and Jared Kushner, for he knows how to push Americans' buttons, and now it's happening again: Trump is helping whitewash what appears to be the Saudi Arabian torture-murder of an international journalist.
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The best queer culture is celebratory, open, and, well, proud, and "They're lesbians, Harold" works because of what's on the other side of the meme: queer identity, existing and thriving throughout history, despite the best efforts of straight culture to whitewash it or pretend it doesn't exist.
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After an inquiry into anti-Semitism in the party in 2016 that was derided as a whitewash, a 1,000-strong protest outside Parliament in March led by disaffected Jewish members, and a series of expulsions, the new rules would demonstrate that Labour, at last, was taking the problem seriously.
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Authors Kevin Kwan and Jenny Han, whose respective novels are the source material for Crazy Rich Asians and To All the Boys I've Loved Before, have both shared stories about meeting with would-be adapters who wanted to whitewash their work, to erase part or all of their Asianness.
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"An independent investigation will be the only guarantee against what increasingly appears as a Saudi whitewash surrounding the circumstances of Khashoggi's murder or any attempts by other governments to sweep the issue under the carpet to preserve lucrative arms deals and other business ties with Riyadh," Hadid said.
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"I believe he's trying to downplay the gravity of and whitewash the fact that he misled the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath and failed to correct the record until he was forced to do so seven weeks later after reporting by The Washington Post," Franken said in a statement.
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Instead of presenting the athletes as they are and giving a platform to them to sell their own sport and their own competition, the magazine and the advertisers felt a need to essentially whitewash them and glamorize them with professional good-looking people, while hiding the real athletes.
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Ebony White and Whitewash Jones made their debuts in what is considered to be the golden age of comic books, where creators like Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Eisner were basically using cartoon characters to create what was then a radical conversation on blackness in a Jim Crow America.
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"The Military Advocate General proves again that no matter how high the number of Palestinians killed is, nor how arbitrary the circumstances of their killing by the military was, the Israeli whitewash mechanism he heads will find a way to bury the facts," the group said in a statement.
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The Report chronicles Senate staffer Daniel Jones's six-year investigation in to the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques," and through it how the torture program began, why it remained in place even as its ineffectiveness became increasingly obvious, and how those in power tried to whitewash or justify it.
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This casting feels like a refreshing contrast with the live-action movie that never got made, which would have starred Keanu Reeves — not to mention the recent movie version of "Ghost in the Shell," which helped prompt a broader conversation about diversity and of Hollywood's tendency to "whitewash" Asian characters.
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"The court has rendered itself complicit in the government's efforts to obscure the campaign of ethnic cleansing that is being perpetrated against the Rohingya and to whitewash crimes committed by soldiers and other authorities," Matthew Bugher, head of the Asia programme at human rights group ARTICLE 19, told VICE News.
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Poland's Holocaust speech law could come under fire The U.S. and Israel have been united in their condemnation of a recently passed law in Poland making it a crime to accuse the Polish nation of atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, arguing that the measure curbs free speech and attempts to whitewash history.
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From his fight with "Mexican" Judge Gonzalo Curiel (who was born in Indiana) to his battle with the NFL over black players kneeling to protest racism to his willingness to whitewash the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August, divisive racial and cultural politics have been at the center of his appeal.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisAll-female panel to moderate November Democratic primary debate Senate rejects Dem measure to overturn IRS rules on SALT deduction cap Coulter: Debate questions that the Democrats should have been asked MORE (D-Calif.), one of two African American presidential candidates, accused Trump of trying to "whitewash" his own corrupt behavior.
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That includes revising school textbooks to whitewash Japan's conduct in the second world war, allowing the armed forces greater freedom of operation despite Japan's official pacifism and resisting moves to amend a law that requires married couples to share a surname, a measure that in practice prevents married women from keeping their maiden names.
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"While China's leaders have tried to whitewash and ignore Zhao's important roles during China's early reform era, this four-volume set goes far towards setting the historical record straight and restoring his reputation," David Shambaugh, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, wrote in a blurb for the collection.
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As documents filed with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) database show, Rasky and his PR firm, Rasky Partners, inked a deal with the kleptocratic dictatorship of Azerbaijan earlier this year, in which they said they would rake in nearly $100,000 to whitewash one of the most heinous post-Soviet regimes.
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In 2011, the Agriculture Department conducted a special test of 300 soybean samples for glyphosate and found the herbicide in 271 of them, according to Carey Gillam, the author of "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science," a book about glyphosate that will go on sale in October.
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"These four monuments were put up well after the Civil War was over by an organization called the Cult of the Lost Cause for one purpose, which was to whitewash the Confederacy and intimidate everybody in New Orleans about who was still in control even after the Confederacy lost the war," Landrieu told BuzzFeed.
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During the four years Manafort served the then-ruling party in Ukraine, he employed a sophisticated playbook -- perhaps borrowing despicable tactics employed by previous clients such as dictators Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire and Angolan rebel Jonas Savimbi -- strategies to whitewash their corrupt dealings and bolster their image in the West.
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" Twitter was filled with appreciative messages about being affected by the column, but then there were also these: "Maybe normal people are just fed up with journalists who fetishize access and revise someone's record to whitewash them because they were personally nice to them in line once at Wendy's while they were waiting for a Frosty.
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Randolph L. Braham, who as the foremost American scholar of the Holocaust in Hungary, his homeland, rejected that country's highest award to protest what he denounced as an official whitewash of its collusion in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews during World War II, died on Sunday at his home in Forest Hills, Queens.
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"Your policy of editorial independence among your imprints does not relieve you of your moral and professional obligations as the publisher of 'Catch and Kill,' and as the leader of a company being asked to assist in efforts by abusive men to whitewash their crimes," Farrow said in an email to Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch, according to the publication.
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Poland was thrust into the international spotlight after legislation in 2628 banned certain kinds of speech regarding the Holocaust, leading to criticism the country was trying to whitewash the genocide, while Ukraine last year honored a nationalist leader whose movement sided with the Nazis and Hungarian President Viktor Orban has remained a vocal critic of Jewish financier George Soros.
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Though Barr noted that Mueller made no decision on whether to charge Trump with obstructing the investigation, the attorney general, in his four-page memo, revealed his own decision to absolve Trump of any allegations of obstruction, prompting howls from Democrats that the move was an effort to whitewash damaging information Mueller might have uncovered about the president.
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By placing Kylie Jenner's picture over Tupac's (and not just any image, but a bikini selfie), these shirts whitewash these artists and their purpose; it's way easier for younger white fans to enjoy the musician at a safe distance, independent of their own merits (don't forget that Tupac himself was an activist, and his mother was once a Black Panther).
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Nationally syndicated radio talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has called the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax, this week labeled Soros as "fundamentally evil" and screened a clip of a 1998 60 Minutes interview that he described as a "whitewash" of his role as a Nazi collaborator, a role debunked by Soros biographer Michael Kaufman.
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People criticized him for trying to whitewash the bad things he'd done in earning the money, and there were people, more interesting to me, who were just opposed to the entire idea that a philanthropic entity with that amount of money in it, the equivalent of almost $21 billion in today's money, would be a welcome thing in a democracy.
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In this climate of hatred, it is more than naïve to believe that giving words of xenophobic racism -- words which once before had the power to whitewash genocide and to inspire the worst kind of evil -- a larger audience under the veneer of the respectability granted by footnotes and a prominent publisher justifies negating the wisdom of those who initially banned it.
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WARSAW — President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday that he would sign into law a bill making it illegal to accuse "the Polish nation" of complicity in the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities, a measure that has roiled relations with Israel and the United States, and spurred claims that the nationalist government is trying to whitewash one of the bloodiest chapters in Poland's history.
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"Your policy of editorial independence among your imprints does not relieve you of your moral and professional obligations as the publisher of 'Catch and Kill,' and as the leader of a company being asked to assist in efforts by abusive men to whitewash their crimes," Farrow said in an email to Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch, according to the Daily Beast.
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Now, in 2019, just a few months after a tornado devastated several of the poorest and most working class areas of Havana, the Ministry of Culture (MINCULT) has decided that it is more important to spend a good part of its budget on the Havana Biennial to whitewash its international image in the midst of the campaign against decree-law 349.
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Now, in 2019, just a few months after a tornado devastated several of the poorest and most working-class areas of Havana, the Ministry of Culture (MINCULT) has decided that it is more important to spend a good part of its budget on the Havana Biennial to whitewash its international image in the midst of the campaign against decree-law 349.
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Israeli officials told me the nationalist right-wing Hungarian government led by Viktor Orbán wants to use the museum to whitewash any involvement of the Hungarian state or the Hungarian people in Nazi crimes during World War II. The bigger picture: This is another example of a populist government in central Europe trying to rewrite the history of World War II and distance themselves from any history of antisemitism or cooperation with the Nazis.
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The two African bodies previously most involved, the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a 15-country regional club led by South Africa, are sure to make high-minded noises, but their readiness in the past to whitewash Zimbabwe's rigged elections and to wink at the violence and deceit that kept Mr Mugabe in power for so long give no comfort to Zimbabwe's battered opposition or to its benighted citizens.
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Kaleniuk: I think it is insulting to Ukraine because when we try to expose corruption in Ukraine, when we name and blame public officials who are corrupt, and at the end we see them buying influence in the United States, buying connections to decision-makers in the United States, it indicates that basically the most corrupt people in Ukraine can whitewash their reputation, simply pouring their dirty money into into the United States.
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After all that work, all that effort, all that time, it would have been easy to listen to Klopp reflect on how it all panned out — insisting that he was "really pleased" with how his team had played, that his squad had produced the finest away performance of his tenure, that he can "really work" with what he had seen, that he had "so much fun" — and suspect he was doing nothing more than trying to whitewash Liverpool's 3-0 defeat on Wednesday.
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When Trump announced Page as one of his foreign-policy advisers during a meeting with The Washington Post editorial board in March 2016, he was eager to tout Page's credentials, identifying him as "Carter Page, Ph.D." Page's doctoral adviser for his degree, received in 2011 from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, was Shirin Akiner, a controversial scholar who has been derided by fellow academics and human rights groups for trying to whitewash human rights abuses in Uzbekistan.
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As the number of infections in China has waned, the government has sought to reposition itself as the savior of the world by sending supplies to hard-hit regions, including the U.S., Italy, Iran, and the EU. But Li's treatment, and leaked documents, show that the Chinese government covered up the extent of the outbreak in late December and early January — and now the government appears to be trying to whitewash those errors as part of its wider effort to deflect criticism of its failures.
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Gerry ConnollyGerald (Gerry) Edward ConnollyHistory in the House: Congress weathers unprecedented week Democrat grills DHS chief over viral image of drowned migrant and child Hillicon Valley: Lawmakers struggle to understand Facebook's Libra project | EU hits Amazon with antitrust probe | New cybersecurity concerns over census | Robocall, election security bills head to House floor | Privacy questions over FaceApp MORE (D-Va.), one of the sponsors of the overall bill, strongly pushed back against this proposed amendment, accusing Republican committee members of trying to "whitewash" what occurred during the 28500 presidential election.
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