"No one can trivialize it as they can trivialize Berkeley," said Larry Tramutola, a California political strategist who worked on the Berkeley campaign and is currently leading the San Francisco and Oakland efforts.
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In the end, the show managed to trivialize both scourges.
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We have fun, but we don't want to trivialize anything.
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But with every positive play comes another to trivialize it.
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They also trivialize Judaism and its sacred festivals and texts.
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She will not let you trivialize what has happened to her.
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I don't intend for that comparison to insult or to trivialize.
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I would never, ever trivialize or condone abuse of any kind.
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The effect is both to criminalize bad sex and trivialize rape.
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Too often do we suppress those thoughts or trivialize certain actions.
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I never meant to hurt anyone or to trivialize the topic.
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Trump's opponent needs to celebrate prosperity, not deny or trivialize it.
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Despite Trump's best efforts to trivialize the everyday lie, facts matter.
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I think that can also trivialize just how important that story was.
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Critics of business school rankings say that they trivialize the value of education.
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" She wrote, "I never meant to hurt anyone or to trivialize the topic.
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When you caricature women for being strong, independent feminists, you trivialize their ideals.
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The migrant crisis is real, and I didn't intend to trivialize that issue.
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Yet law enforcement bodies often "trivialize online violence against women", the U.N. warned.
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Having a fatal disease is scary and I don't want to trivialize that.
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We trivialize so much behavior without thinking about where it's coming from or why.
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Does including torture or other human rights violations in video games trivialize the actions?
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What is worse, they tell me, is that their teachers often trivialize their concerns.
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That is what I mean when I say I think they trivialize the issue.
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"No one should trivialize anti-Semitism and racism by neo-Nazis," Mr. Maas added.
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I would never, ever intentionally trivialize the emotional and physical challenges of terminating a pregnancy.
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The media effect Third, the media can boost presidents, but it can also trivialize them.
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Western narratives trivialize the government's role as subsidizing winners and protecting them from foreign competition.
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It is ludicrous to trivialize treason and sedition as if they were mere political dissent.
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The casual offer of a perk, like a manicure, can trivialize an important behavior—decision-making.
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To hold only these crimes against him is to trivialize the enormity of his dictatorial reign.
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We tend to trivialize happiness, even though in fact happiness is an extreme kind of labor.
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I will not let her trivialize what the National Front is, which is a xenophobic party.
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The fear was that it would trivialize a sport built on a foundation of classical music.
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She advises fostering a personal connection with a witch since commercial goods so often trivialize the craft.
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And the attacks on trigger warnings often trivialize the very real trauma that some students have experienced.
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In pondering policies most suitable for garnering youth support, the key is to not trivialize younger generations.
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One cold spring day in Milan, Mr. Salvini, then the interior minister, appeared to trivialize climate change.
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Don't trivialize our fears of being targeted because Islamophobia doesn't seem like a big threat to you.
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Have Bad and Saul helped shine a light on these issues, or do they just trivialize them?
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When we do that, we trivialize the brave victims who are coming forward about actual sex crimes.
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I realize this is your actual life and I don't at all mean to trivialize it, but wow.
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Spending too much time around envious people is dangerous because they teach you to trivialize your own accomplishments.
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In the face of monumental terror, sometimes all you can do is laugh and trivialize what's terrifying you.
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And over the past decade, such libraries and archives have begun to treasure, rather than trivialize, such materials.
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The song is — or attempts to be — "cute," but it seems to exoticize and trivialize genuine Hawaiian culture.
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We cannot continue to trivialize the problems of our current political climate as merely a moment in time.
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But other Kenyan women told BuzzFeed News that these comments not only miss the point, but trivialize Otieno's death.
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"When we make light of it on the show and trivialize marriage, for me it's somewhat disgusting," Parks explained.
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"We tend to trivialize happiness, even though, in fact, happiness is an extreme kind of labor," he told me.
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I don't mean to trivialize the scandals that are facing them, it's just that these investigations can take years.
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It was certainly something that crossed their minds: "We don't want to do anything to trivialize psychotic illness," he says.
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Our social constipation regarding bodily waste elimination leads many to dismiss or trivialize the political importance of public bathroom access.
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"Look, I'm not going to trivialize that situation, I just heard about it for the first time," the actor added.
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That is actually really important, because I don't mean to trivialize disability, but I think that's exactly what he did.
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"If you start to trivialize this or that, you're saying only the stuff that matters to you matters," he said.
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Agents exercise caution Investigators tasked with creative nicknaming are careful not to lend criminals notoriety or trivialize their crimes, Trombitas said.
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She describes Austen as "an authoress," an antiquated feminine form that, like "poetess," serves to trivialize Austen as a woman writer.
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To try to trivialize it by bringing the circus to town on the floor of the Senate strikes me as counterproductive.
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Such sentiments — typically advanced by those unlikely to bear the burden of being labeled a suspected terrorist — trivialize the liberty lost.
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The "All Lives Matter" response has been perceived by some to use reductive reasoning to trivialize the problems specifically facing blacks.
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In addition, a popular online discussion forum has been found all too often to sexualize or trivialize women and their work.
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If I take a practice that is freighted with significance for some group and mock it or trivialize it, that's contempt.
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When critics trivialize a threat to Israel's border as "peaceful demonstrations," Israelis conclude that world opinion is either obtuse or hostile.
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His lawyers' public response has been to misread and trivialize what the framers of our constitution saw as a foundational American rule.
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The goal is to not trivialize the magnitude of the problem, but to make it gentler in self expression and social acceptance.
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But as well-meaning as shirts like this are, they violate kids' personal space and tend to ignore or trivialize their feelings.
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The officer was simultaneously able to trivialize what happened to me, while appearing to be shocked that I had been targeted repeatedly.
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The biggest thing was we didn't want to trivialize the subject, but at the same time, we are aware we're a family comedy.
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I feared the series would trivialize the reality, sanitizing the war into just one more entry in our endless streaming menu of entertainment.
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Few of us would trivialize the taking of a fetal life — at any age — but we need the option of termination when needed.
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To speak of bruised egos would be to trivialize how deeply invested these scientists were in the project, how reason and emotion entwined.
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But I think the authors of the Nature Climate Change paper trivialize the issue, too; they just do it more subtly, through neglect.
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The word is acceptable in reference to any happening or occurrence, but it can sometimes seem to trivialize events that have serious consequences.
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So I do not want to trivialize or say that anything, even if you work really hard on it, will be 100 percent.
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Called "adultification," these are examples of beliefs that make it easier to trivialize their pain and deny them protection accorded to white children.
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Both of them, like "Corsaire," help ballet to seem the most frivolous of the arts; and it's their dance scenes that trivialize them.
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Explain. — Will the March for Science be a good thing for scientists, or ultimately politicize scientific research and trivialize it in some way?
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It doesn't fetishize or trivialize the complexities of Blackness but celebrates it richly in a story that is both existentially profound and proudly empathetic.
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And I know that does harken back to old-school gender norms, but I wasn't going to trivialize something that was important to him.
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The aforementioned works often caricature and trivialize refugees' experiences, perpetuating notions of powerless, pitiful victims, and cartoonish symbols of suffering instead of individual people.
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It's easy to see their point: Avoidable death and destruction are generally no laughing matter, and joking about them might trivialize strangers' real suffering.
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This is not to trivialize Lyme disease: Every year there are an estimated 300,000 cases, and about one in four of those are children.
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The problem with frittering around within this period of history is the risk of appearing to oversimplify it at best, and at worst, trivialize it.
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And our big black ideas and expression are threatening to further expose them, so they'll try to trivialize and minimize our blackness by stereotyping us.
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He has also, however, made works in which he seems to trivialize musicality, devising dance effects whose timing and structure seem smart-aleck, pedantic, campy.
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In the case of Cleveland, therefore, the team name was originally and at its best an attempt to honor, not trivialize, a Native American teammate.
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But despite these two clear setbacks, we should not be too quick to dismiss and trivialize the overall power of the rest of his message.
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"It can be relatively easy to trivialize both the problem of DPRK use of cryptocurrencies and the threat it poses to the world," she said.
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There are so many ways in which people trivialize or discount women writers, and one of the ways is talking about the way that they look.
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As a woman, I would never trivialize something as lewd and criminal to provide myself any sort of comic relief because it simply just isn't funny.
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I know it's become common to offer such analyses (maybe to make ourselves feel superior?), but they trivialize the disorders and perpetuate the stigma of them.
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As a woman, I would never trivialize something as lewd and criminal to provide myself any sort of comic relief because it simply… just isn't funny.
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The language of sports had a maddening tendency to flatten and trivialize the serious consequences of politics, creating constant suspense but obscuring life-or-death stakes.
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At first we smile and trivialize (it) because it is ridiculous, then we get used to a deaf symbolic violence, and one day we wake up with fascism.
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"Damon's inclusion would trivialize the serious nature of the charges against sexual abusers like Weinstein — a show massive disrespect for the brave women speaking out," read the petition.
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It could backfire and appear craven, as Pepsi's Kendall Jenner ad did when it seemed to trivialize Black Lives Matter, and it could alienate existing and future customers.
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I am remembered for it at least in part because of the need more traditional media outlets at the time seemed to have to trivialize MTV's political coverage.
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Negative stereotypes about women's competence are dangerous because they can lead people to trivialize women's achievements and underestimate women's potential — which Trump's comments, in effect, are trying to do.
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Lynching represents one of the most horrific, despicable, and racist acts in our nation's history and to trivialize it by comparing it to a heated town hall is disgusting.
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I don't mean to trivialize it, but I think Twitter had the same kind of extreme views where they won't regulate and won't kick people off for hate speech.
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"The space junk thing — we don't want to trivialize it or not take it seriously, because we certainly do take it seriously — but it's not crowded up there," says Musk.
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" On Instagram, Dunham wrote she "would never, ever intentionally trivialize the emotional and physical challenges of terminating a pregnancy," adding, "My only goal is to increase awareness and decrease stigma.
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He noted that the event is not meant to trivialize the issue of reparations and said that although white people were not invited, their donations helped ensure the event happened.
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Gonzalez Theran, who carried on broadcasting for several minutes, called the incident "sad", but said the reaction of those who tried to trivialize it on social media had been worse.
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We trivialize our lives, and then at the same time we know that it's like the moth — unless you get your wings just right, you're not going to make it.
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This would resolve the conflict over whether Canadian identity was more Anglophone or Francophone — it would be neither, with a range of diversity wide enough to trivialize the old divisions.
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Lawmakers in both chambers and in both parties do not make their constituents proud when they choose to trivialize matters of state into just one more round of political ammunition.
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"We have ads on Facebook and Instagram for women to start the conversations," Hogarty said in response to criticism that the ads trivialize a medical process that involves injections and anesthesia.
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This is not to trivialize or make secondary his suffering: It was gratuitous and racist with a crude obviousness that is rarely legible in the racist scandals of our own moment.
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We should not run down our own institutions, trivialize the impartial actions of our own grand juries, degrade our own justice system, or bully a free press for doing its job.
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I'm not about to trivialize the experience of people with real, diagnosed eating disorders by saying that I was in the throes of orthorexia or some other very modern, fitness-related disorder.
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Unfortunately, not everyone is taking the show's heartbreaking material particularly seriously: The internet has been flooded with 13 Reasons Why memes, which some argue trivialize the show's disturbing and important subject matter.
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Efforts to "trivialize" information related to the killing of civilians during the war would also be forbidden; this would almost certainly be used to prosecute anyone who questioned the official death toll.
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Even if instructors align themselves with these individuals and other progressive causes, they still might use homophobic language without realizing it is offensive, or unintentionally trivialize issues that afflict the LGBTQ community.
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This type of event does, however, trivialize a mundane link between two people, making a fun parody out of something that used to be solemn, that of accepting a commitment for life.
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And that's not to trivialize them: Artists' renderings of exoplanets are gorgeous, imaginative visions of what it might look like to live your life circling another star, and they're devilishly tricky to make.
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That's not an attempt to trivialize Hannah and Jessica's (Alisha Boe's) rapes — Bryce (Justin Prentice) should be held fully accountable and punished for his actions, which will have permanent effects on his survivors.
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You see what an incredible synthesis took place to take an 832-page book and condense it into a musical, and yet in no way does the play trivialize this heavy academic work.
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"Lynching represents one of the most horrific, despicable, and racist acts in our nation's history and to trivialize it by comparing it to a heated town hall is disgusting," Rush said on Twitter.
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"A therapist who lacks cultural competence or cultural humility might trivialize a client of color's fear of being stopped by the police by saying, 'Oh, I think your exaggerating the risk,'" Linden says.
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But while nobody should dismiss or trivialize Trump's negotiating talents in the real estate business, the art of the deal in New York isn't quite the same as the one in the Middle East.
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Merkel said Erdogan's comments only served to trivialize the unfathomable suffering of those affected by Nazi crimes against humanity, and were particularly sad given the many common factors that connected the two NATO allies.
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You can't trivialize them, because they cost people their lives, but we have made progress since those times, and even when we go backward, there's definitely an opportunity for us to go forward again.
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Don't fear all those women with signs on their backs The straight and the queer, the whites and blacks You can trivialize them with snide little cracks And wash them away with alternative facts!
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I don't mean to trivialize mental illness—Hill's character Owen is schizophrenic and has stopped taking his meds; Stone's character Annie is self-medicating her depression by abusing the A pill from the clinical trial.
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To trivialize these horrors as mere titillation and not the painfully instructive breadcrumbs they're meant to be is to ignore the show's fundamental purpose: to explore the contours of human morality when unburdened by consequences.
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Damon's comments also sparked the creation of an online petition calling for the actor to be removed from the upcoming film "Ocean's 8," saying his presence would "trivialize the serious nature" of sexual misconduct allegations.
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Yes, rejecting identity politics has become a way for the majority culture to dismiss or trivialize minority groups' concerns, yet overuse of "identity" brings the risk that we simply self-ghettoize, if not self-deport.
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Most of the time there's no malice, but comments like these, which trivialize serious illnesses, feed a society that stigmatizes the mentally ill, isolating them and making it impossible for them to live fulfilling lives.
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And I don't trivialize the North: These are people who are heavily armed, they put enormous resources into these programs, and the consequences for their own people — their livelihood, their well-being — are pretty substantial.
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But several people close to him have explained in recent days that it is incredibly unlikely at this point he will avoid being impeached, and that the best he can do is to trivialize the process.
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Citing Damon's alleged involvement in an attempt to kill a 2004 story about Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual misconduct, the petition claims the actor's inclusion in Ocean's 8 would "trivialize the serious nature" of the allegations.
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Andre's taking the loss of his son badly, working too hard and forgoing a psychiatrist's counsel at the urging of his shady pastor, and his mom manages to trivialize his entire life's conflict in a word.
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"I have much higher expectations of our police officers and I am appalled that any law enforcement officer would trivialize the decision-making process of something as important as the arrest of a person," he said.
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And while the lead actress Danai Gurira, who plays the katana queen Michonne, didn't want to trivialize the ongoing coronavirus crisis by connecting it to the dark fantasy of a TV show, she, too, is unsettled.
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"A march by scientists, while well intentioned, will serve only to trivialize and politicize the science we care so much about," geologist Robert S. Young wrote in a widely circulated op-ed in the New York Times.
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Eight hundred children were tortured and murdered in a Viennese hospital during World War II. But her question about what is gained from a novel rather than a report on these events seems to trivialize this history.
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" Kimmel responded by tweeting, "I vote for whichever one best helps you trivialize the horrors of Harvey Weinstein by comparing them to televised comedy bits in which every woman was a willing participant who gladly signed a release.
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On the one hand, activism in the digital age is easier because you can reach and mobilize audiences, and yet, on the other hand, it's lowered the barrier to entry in a way that seems to trivialize everything.
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Because Swift doesn't share their opinions, they attack her intelligence, attempt to turn her values around on her, and trivialize her fan base to suggest she doesn't have any influence that matters which couldn't be further from the truth.
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"I hate to see the Democratic leader try to trivialize this very important national security debate and discussion by injecting presidential election politics right in the middle of this important discussion and debate on the Senate floor," Cornyn said.
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" On social media, the artist said that he ultimately resorted to legal action after more than a year of "fruitless negotiation" with the company, which he said "only engaged in arrogant gestures to trivialize their guilt and dismiss the matter.
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While some may still trivialize internships as a summertime activity offering students a glimpse into a potential career path, it is clear at this point that they perform as a crucial factor in the future success of a college graduate.
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And though Jenner isn't often outspokenly political (and recently was in hot water for fronting a since-pulled Pepsi spot that appeared to trivialize the Black Lives Matter movement), she did join her sisters in supporting Hillary Clinton before November's election.
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"Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialize cruelty to animals will vanish as more people begin to appreciate animals for who they are and start 'bringing home the bagels' instead of the bacon."
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" In its own statement, Qualcomm called Broadcom's response "a continuation of its now familiar pattern of deliberately seeking to mislead shareholders and the general public by using rhetoric rather than substance to trivialize and ignore serious regulatory and national security issues.
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You can see, for example, the conversion of St. Paul and the current destruction in Syria in a mere three lines: serpentine roads to Damascusodd how holiest of placesturned hells Does subsuming massive topics into this long performance diminish or trivialize them?
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But his rhetorical questioning also revealed how Mr. Trump, a president facing the most serious of threats, has sought to minimize and trivialize what is happening in and around his White House, and in the process, to desensitize his supporters to grave charges.
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The words, and the passionate, uncompromising sentiment behind them, offer an implicit rebuttal to the currently fashionable critique of "identity politics," a phrase that seeks to trivialize struggles that are, for the people who practice such politics, a matter of life and death.
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A march by scientists, while well intentioned, will serve only to trivialize and politicize the science we care so much about, turn scientists into another group caught up in the culture wars and further drive the wedge between scientists and a certain segment of the American electorate.
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"I am appalled that any law enforcement officer would trivialize the decision-making process of something as important as the arrest of a person," Roswell Police Department Chief Rusty Grant said in the statement, adding that an investigation had been launched and the officers were on administrative leave.
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With the term "treasonous" having been uttered by Stephen Bannon (referring to a meeting involving Donald Trump Jr.), and with Robert Mueller's investigation getting close to the president himself, I believe that Mr. Trump is purposely using the term in an offhand way so as to trivialize it, empty it of its gravity.
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" Reaction from Qualcomm: "Broadcom Limited's response to the order from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) is a continuation of its now familiar pattern of deliberately seeking to mislead shareholders and the general public by using rhetoric rather than substance to trivialize and ignore serious regulatory and national security issues.
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And here's part of the statement from Qualcomm: Broadcom Limited's response to the order from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) is a continuation of its now familiar pattern of deliberately seeking to mislead shareholders and the general public by using rhetoric rather than substance to trivialize and ignore serious regulatory and national security issues.
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Al GreenAlexander (Al) N. GreenDanish prime minister: Trump's idea to buy Greenland 'absurd' Juan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts We need a climate plan for agriculture MORE (D-Texas), who has introduced articles of impeachment against Trump and forced two floor votes on the issue, has also criticized Pelosi's comments, saying they "trivialize" Trump's rhetoric and actions.
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Even as some patients trivialize the medical nature of dentistry — which, the Atlantic reports, "is often sidelined from medicine at large" — they fear the power that dentists wield over them: According to a 2015 study conducted by the ADA, 22 percent of adults who hadn't visited the dentist in a year cited fear as a reason for not going more often.
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But what is certain about Three Billboards is that if this many people saw Dixon's arc as redemptive — and if we take the most charitable view, that it wasn't intended to trivialize the experiences of abused and tortured black characters in order to humanize a white character — then the problem is in the film itself, which allowed room for a reading that was counter to its intentions.
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Devin NunesDevin Gerald NunesJuan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America Trump expected to nominate Texas GOP lawmaker to replace Dan Coats: report House Republicans claim victory after Mueller hearings MORE (Calif.), warned the experts at the beginning of the hearing for them to not to draw "scurrilous" comparisons between authoritarian governments and democracies, stating that this would trivialize the decree of suffering and violence individuals endure under authoritarian regimes.
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