Let Us Explain: Sportswashing – Scalawag
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Despite efforts to posit sports and sports media as a viable getaway from politics, sportswashing remains one of the most effective tools of indoctrination in the fascist state’s arsenal.

sportswashing

Sportswashing: the use of an athletic event by an individual or a government, a corporation, or another group to promote or burnish the individual’s or group’s reputation, especially amid controversy or scandal.

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