Trump is creating a 2025 "brown peril" equivalent of the yellow peril of the late 1800s and early 1990s. Immigrants from certain countries are dirty, unclean, and bring disease. The Times is pretending that's not true and Trump is merely using the law to further his legislative agenda.
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. The term was initially coined in online discussions about defunding the police in 2020, but has come to greater prominence in critique of media practices relating to Donald Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election. Journalism organizations and media commentators have suggested actions both readers and writers can take to mitigate sanewashing.
![The NYT is openly and blatantly sanewashing Trump's racism. "[Trump's advisors] have spent months trying to find the right disease to build their case."](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/146748e1-ecd8-47c1-9d0f-bf41ff7c5108.png){kind=link}
Trump is creating a 2025 "brown peril" equivalent of the yellow peril of the late 1800s and early 1990s. Immigrants from certain countries are dirty, unclean, and bring disease. The Times is pretending that's not true and Trump is merely using the law to further his legislative agenda.
Seems like they're reporting that Trump is seeking a legal figleaf for his racist policy.
I guess we just read it differently.
Yes we do. The media and DC dems are going big on sanewashing what clearly is racism.
And more sanewashing there is - the more openly racist and hateful Trump and the GOP will be.
I think the confusion is coming from "sane" vs "insane", rather than "sanetising"
It's a terrible term, that much is certain