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Can someone help me finding an expression for "making a big incident/problem as a minor one" by ignoring it or taking it casually?
I want to insist someone to concentrate on the main incident when they deliberately try to ignore the core point and hang on to trivial things.
Legitimately 'downplaying' a problem to get it into context is a valid 'de-escalation', in my view, reducing a problem to its true proportion.
But the OP asks for a word which expresses 'ignoring it or taking it casually' which I think makes @Bread 's comment ('trivialize') appropriate :
To make trivial; to render commonplace or trifling.
Never forget — or trivialize — the Holocaust
downplay as in: The government are trying to downplay the violence which broke out yesterday.
to play down (something) TFD
to make something seem less important or remarkable.
