carpet sweeper

A person renowned for avoiding conversation topics and issues of life by using remedies such as redirection, minimisation, avoidance and dismissiveness.
A person who actively replaces the significance and importance of a subject or issue that has been raised for discussion with an insignificant, unrelated, unimportant, off topic alternative for the purpose of avoiding the initial topic or issue.
A person with a reputation for refusing to address required conversations that are commonly considered as essential to occur in order for remedial outcomes.

A person who has a reputation for intentionally avoiding the addressing of issues or topics they deem as difficult or uncomfortable by steering the discussion or conversation away from a particular topic at hand to a completely different topic.

“She is such a carpet sweeper always sweeping the terrible things she has done under the rug”

“ everyone in that family are a bunch of carpet sweepers, they never talk about the terrible things their clan did in this community and somehow if I address it with any of them the conversation always ends up being about how many wonderful kittens they sold at the markets last year”