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This institutional trivialisation of racism does far more harm than good to race relations in this country - at a time when many ethnic minorities are under real threat.

The complaint was made when the Mayor refused to apologise for the offence he caused - not just to the Jewish community, but to all who considered his trivialisation of the Holocaust and the suffering of victims utterly offensive.

The trivialisation of domestic violence in the coverage of the Sun editor's recent spat with her husband treats unacceptable aggression as a joke.

Criticising the Transform Medical Group - as well as BUPA for paying commission to sales reps - BAAPS said: "This appalling trivialisation is at the level of supermarket loyalty cards and degrades the profession as a whole."

I'm sure the families of these men, who I understand have seen the play, would not appreciate such trivialisation.

"It seems to me that it's commercialisation and trivialisation of something that's very important," he said.

Plastic surgeon Simon Withey, who sat on the review board, said: "Part of the reason there hasn't been a change (following the PIP implant troubles) is because there has been this trivialisation of plastic surgery.

This is yet further commodification and trivialisation of life.

What's more serious is his trivialisation of bringing a child into the world.

The Medical Ethics Alliance called for the MNI website to be shut down because it led to the 'trivialisation and commercialisation of fertility treatment'.

THE president of the Students' Union at the University of Warwick has slammed a leading academic for a "crude and gross" trivialisation of student hardship.

FAMILIARLY seen in a bow-tie, which the great PG Wodehouse would have described as a ``trifle sudden'',he was the prophet of American culture and,by extension, worldculture, who foresaw the rise of celebrity and the trivialisation of politics and current affairs.