Trivialized

Institutions are damaged, democratic processes are devalued, and people’s will is trivialized”.

Calling for help is a simple menu option away, but having multiple players (plus AI companions) severely trivialized boss encounters.

Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan shared a meme on their Instagram stories Friday from cartoonist Carlos Latuff, who’s work has been accused of being anti-Semitic and has trivialized the holocaust.

Pepsi pulled an ad in 2017 showing Kendall Jenner giving a cop a Pepsi during a protest and apologized after an outcry that it trivialized “Black Lives Matter” and other protest movements.

Trivialized marketing tells the voter that all he or she has to do to participate in the new public policy reality is to accept the new branding, whether branded as the three R’s of reduce, reuse and recycle, sustainability or zero waste.

Politics Lost: How American Democracy was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid.

Such ideas get first trivialized and sterilized, and then they are safely incorporated back within mainstream society, where they can be exploited to add new flavors to old dominant ideas.