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by hoseja 1766 days ago
That's an absolutely wrong way to interpret the wording. The author was clearly saying: "this is eugenics but wrapped in an illusion of decency". That's what "white-washing" means. Your explanation doesn't seem to make sense and is shifting the intended meaning.

One could of course argue that most of medicine is "white-washed eugenics" and point to similar efforts by, say, deaf people to view cochlear implants as a bad thing but that's not the topic here.