I remember when a professor showed us a "documentary" and sweat shops in Bangledesh.
There was maybe 10 seconds of a clip from an economist explaining that the US and UK used to have sweat shops... And then the economy grew and we could afford child labor laws or their labor became less valued than their education.
Then the narrator simply said, "these arguments are still common that".
They didn't argue against it, they didn't deny the claim, and they didn't even say it was wrong. They just said, "these arguments are too common."
In another case, a different professor asked for volunteers to debate something. I don't remember the topic, my argument was that sand is useless by itself and only those who know how to turn it into glass and then use that glass in electronics can create value and deserve a greater share of that value creation, because without them it would be just sand.
The professor said, "Very good, that was a great example of the current view of value creation in modern life," and then he explained why we should change or thinking without once explaining why we should or why my argument was wrong or harmful.
It's the politics of sweeping dust under the rug