bothsidesism

Definitions

A tendency to treat all policy debates as if the opposing sides present equally strong arguments, or are equally valid or equally dangerous.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“Near-synonym: view⟳ from nowhere”

“And the reason⟳ is that too much of the news media still can't break⟳ with bothsidesism — the almost pathological determination to portray politicians and their programs as being equally good or equally bad, no matter⟳ how ludicrous that pretense becomes.”

“This is not the same as the dreaded bothsidesism, where you assign equal value to opposing positions and split⟳ the difference.”

“Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch⟳ pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot⟳ up shuls.”

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