DEMOCRAZY IN ACTION

A “white paper” is called white because it’s clean enough to hide the messy parts.

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A white paper is an authoritative report on an issue. The term comes from British government documents, where white papers were policy statements, distinct from the more detailed blue books. The name has no link to hiding anything.

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