If an action is tokenistic, the person doing it wants to seem like they are helping a group of people who are treated unfairly in society, but their action is not meant to make lasting changes to how those people are treated.

The support programme was viewed with suspicion as a tokenistic gesture by management.

He is keen to attract ethnic minority listeners by broadening content rather than by making tokenistic appointments. 他致力于通过拓宽内容而不是表面上的封官许愿来吸引少数民族听众。