nontroversy

plural nontroversies

1. A supposed controversy that does not exist or is of little importance.

   This will, I hope, be my last post about astrology for a while. Until and unless, at least, some other nontroversy pops up.

   2009, Phil Plait, “Bad Astronomy”, in Discover Magazine

   3 more examples

   It is a terrible shame that the media only helps to covers this up "as a national security measure," while they serve us a diet of needless sporting events and contrived international political situations, >nontroversies< designed to distract even the most brilliant humans into complete and total docility.

   1995 February 11, Rev. Ivan Stang, “FIST:Rev-X Outs:Silent Radio”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 10 Dec 2016, message-ID <i.stang-1002952302170001@net40.metronet.com>

   You gotta be fuckin' kidding me. I never had a doubt in my mind that the audience was applauding for the song and not the political statement (it _was_ at the _end_ of the song, recall). Seems like a complete nontroversy to me. Furthermore, the remark is decidedly _not_ anti-abortion!

   1997 June 29, David F Lynch, “Yellow Shark controversy”, in alt.fan.frank-zappa (Usenet), retrieved 10 Dec 2016, message-ID <867610590.22815@dejanews.com>

   I understand the appeal of this binary debate, allowing everyone to share their views. However, an analysis of the data leads us to a different conclusion: the rivalry between London and Paris is largely a false debate, a “nontroversy”, for three main reasons.

   2024 November 28, Guillaume Cerutti, “Paris vs London, a nontroversy”, in The Art Newspaper, number 372, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 45

   Synonyms: manufactroversy