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[–] 59 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

Whitewashing/teaching that paler is purer and better on one side, and unfair representation so the Western audience with fucked education doesn't get confused on the other. You know I was shocked at the lack of education I had on the region when I discovered that some African populations below Egypt are white. We didn't get taught this shit

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago

    Sidenote: whitewashing comes from lime washing houses.

    The meaning is: Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone's reputation.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I feel that annoyance. For example when people call middle-easterners "brown," happens even on lemmy, but I think it's used as more of a rhetoric device meaning "non-european" here so it's not as bad.

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