whitewash

Whether or not the canard is used in other contexts to whitewash civil liberties abuses, in this specific example, it is being used correctly.

I don't mean we should whitewash discrimination and injustice, but I seriously doubt wallowing in it helps.

José Valim has repeatedly said that he did not create Elixir to be a whitewash of Erlang's syntax.

If the US annexed Crimea under a republican president, you can bet Fox would try to whitewash it.

If you look at my response below, the report does not have to be an outright lie to be a whitewash.

Try to whitewash the issue with 'well it's still a good deal' is a poor way of looking at it because if not dealt with more fraud from the manufacturer is likely.

He didn't claim to support the movement or try to whitewash people's actions.

Assuming her story is entirely true, there is still the argument that we shouldn't ever whitewash history.

I don't want to whitewash Iran (it's still a place that executes homosexuals, after all).

Is EFF stingy with credit, or do they just whitewash any mention of Paul out of Patriot Act subversion stories because he's not a Democrat?

Let's not whitewash things when commit history shows that it's only 19 commits back (three of those from other people) from the current mainline on Jun 7th.

I could never get over how easy it would be to whitewash a bash script with an rpm just to get some psychological credibility.

I said "whitewash." A whitewash is dissembling and deflecting and, ultimately, deceptive.

A whitewash is [...] ultimately deceptive." I don't feel like I'm so much trying to use debate tactics against you as to observe how uncomfortable even you seem to be with the idea that Hal Abelson was deliberately deceptive.

The report amounts to "It wasn't our fault because, except for the people we won't name, and won't say what they told law enforcement, nobody here told Aaron to kill himself." That doesn't need to be contradicted to call it weak sauce and whitewash.

That's not to justify them or whitewash their actions either though, I was shocked when I learned that the total deaths in the UVF/IRA conflict (which the Brits characteristically love to downplay by calling it "The Troubles") were close to 6,000 and that total casualties were close to 50,000.