[…] I see, twenty yards away, workmen pinkwashing the newly laid, badly stained, cheap-looking brick cladding of a newly built apartment house called — well, something ridiculous: Nepal, let's say.
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Pinkwash
Synonyms for "pinkwash"
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Hungarian
2 entries- (dezinformációval) melegbarátnak állít be verb (to tout the gay-friendliness of something in an attempt to downplay or soften aspects of it considered negative)
- melegbarát látszatot kelt (ve dezinformál) verb (to tout the gay-friendliness of something in an attempt to downplay or soften aspects of it considered negative)
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They see such corporate involvement as exploitation, making profits on the backs of ill women. […] They claim these campaigns trivialize the disease, "pinkwashing" its real nature.
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Gayle Sulik, sociologist and author of "Pink Ribbon Blues", said pinkwashing is only the beginning of how "breast cancer culture" undermines women's health.
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Pinkwashing not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel’s gay community, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations.
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