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”

carpet sweeper by Soledad Flynn May 7, 2022