Making a shallow and superficial pretence at dealing with or addressing something - commonly, in my experience, done by petty bureaucrats (can be in corporations as well as government) to cover up not having thought about something, people who are sock puppets of their parents because they have not examined themselves or their lives, or people trying to take the easy way out of potentially awkward situations such as committing discrimination.
See also here, here, and here.
In workplaces, there is often (in my nation, at any rate) a push to ensure people who are the victims of discrimination get "mental health support" (meaning, counselling or psychological / psychiatric attention) when the ones who are most desperately in need of psychological / psychiatric intervention are the bigots who are doing the abusing.
From my post at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2011/07/deity.html:
My view of Deity tends towards the hierarchical arrangement of "Manu's", a bit like a chain of managers, described by Lobsang Rampa. Each of these people is learning and growing, and, in fact, the Ultimate Creator type level, that which "the Nine" defined in Stuart Holroyd's book "Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth" as
