Post your funny pictures here!!! part Deux

[Hydra009]

The media being largely owned by billionaires doesn't help.  Lots of sanewashing this year.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I wouldn't eat that banana either.

[Unbeliever]

I would, it's just right! 🍌

[Gawdzilla Sama]

With a straw?

[Unbeliever]

Sure why not? It's sure to be nice and sweet! 🍌

[drunkenshoe]

The media being largely owned by billionaires doesn't help.  Lots of sanewashing this year.

What is sane washing?  Is that a new thing?

[the_antithesis]

"Sanewashing is the act of minimizing the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea in order to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience. "

Link

[drunkenshoe]

So technically, in the most possible un-sane washed look, it's anything done after Edward Bernays? Meaning, the term sane washing was actually sane washed before anyone realized it?

I wonder how many people have blamed illusionists and magicians for that kind of overview a century ago?

These are all bad for our sanity. Thinking in general, I mean. It's bad.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Sanewashing, the inmates have the keys.

[Hydra009]

What is sane washing?  Is that a new thing?

The term is new, but not the activity.  Essentially, it's a PR/propaganda technique where radical viewpoints are presented in more generally-acceptable terms through euphemistic language or just plain lying by presenting a less radical position.  It's a way to get a position more support than it would otherwise receive if it were simply stated outright and accurately.

It crops up more frequently recently because news media must summarize statements that various people make, and accusations of sanewashing pop up when the summary bears little similarity to the statements being summarized.  For example, if I were to suggest that poor families should sell their children into slavery to make ends meet, I might be quoted as promoting "ingenious, out-of-the-box thinking" by which I would help poor families "leverage their assets and minimize dependents" to achieve "financial solvency".

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Sanewashing derived from whitewashing?

[Mr.Obvious]

Thought it came from the term brainwashing.

But rather than convincing someone that the earth is flat or that the great leader is a deity... you convince someone that when the great leader says something batshit crazy like 'windmills kill all the birds!' You show only the good clips and provide context which obviously shows that that leader is actually making a decent point about the hypocricy of extreme left-wing environmentalist hippie communists.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

That's what I said, whitewashing them. Covers up the defects in their thinking.

[Mr.Obvious]

I think maybe there is a cultural difference in the meaning of the term 'whitewashing' between us.

Edit; looked it up.
There indeed is your meaning of the word.
And then there is the practice of having white people playing people of other ethnicities. Which, allong withe the idea of systemic undervalueing the input and contributions of non-caucasians, was how i interpreted that word.
Sorry for the confusion

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ah, yes. US here. The term is used to imply that the defects are still there just barely covered up. (Whitewash can be considered very thin paint for this discussion.)