Common meaning:

Concealing where an idea came from in order to make it more acceptable.

Hidden meaning of the Equity religion: 

Only scholarship that follows the critical theories of Equity are true and acceptable.

Discussion:

The Equity faithful think that there is a conspiracy in Western society to block the truth of Equity. When Equityist researchers are forced to create their own journals in order to get published, this just demonstrates what length the oppressors will go to in order to prevent true scholarship from taking place.

In the real world, the goal of the alternative journals the Equityists have set up is to launder their ideas and make them appear legitimate. They want to mimic real scholarship in order to infect a particular subject area with their religion. 

From the Equity perspective, true scholarship only occurs when the critical theories of the faith are applied. Journals that have objective standards and peer review that maintain current subject expertise are simply spreading hegemonic lies.

Once the Equityists manage to get a foothold in a subject area, they will eventually remove all of the traditional content and use the subject to indoctrinate students in the Equity religion.