The young organizers hope the protests counter what they say is a sanitized perception of King.
"On the topic of L.G.B.T. issues, they've completely misled the public," she said of the censors, adding that she worried that the decision to screen a sanitized version of the film would discourage gay people in China.
What Smith and Carlos did was exercise the audacity to disrupt a sporting event — which we have been conditioned to believe is a societal safe space, a theater of escape, a spectacle sanitized of any of our ills — with a political declaration.
Changes made to choruses simply for reasons of sanitation (like "Back That Thang Up" or "awop-bop-a-loo-mop-alop-bam-boom," or the late Big Pun's sanitizing of a verb to create the chorus "I'm not a player, I just crush a lot") are often incorporated into the vernacular as slang and hip catch phrases.
This sanitizing of a political ideology helps re-establish white racial innocence by claiming that white nationalism is a virtue and political value that does not necessarily entail marginalization and violence against people of color.
But will the genre-loving target audience be primed for a 16th century history-lite lesson in the form of "Reign," which has been dubbed a sanitized teen version of "The Tudors"?
He has frequently been called into the ring on issues like a boycott of the eighth-grade reading test in Scarsdale and an outcry over the sanitizing of literature passages on the English Regents examinations.
It proves that the slickness of the computer age does not necessarily have to lead us to a world sanitized of sensual charms.
A sanitized book, shorn of factual details, concentrates on Fanny Brice's found and lost love, Nicky Arnstein, a charmer and a louse.
After the original broadway debut the play ended up in college and high school productions a sanitized safe version of a once-edgy production.
