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/bəʊθˈsaɪd.zɪ.zəm/ · noun
A tendency to treat all policy debates as if the opposing sides present equally strong arguments, or are equally valid or equally dangerous..
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.
Use bothsidesism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bothsidesism means A tendency to treat all policy debates as if the opposing sides present equally strong arguments, or are equally valid or equally dangerous..
Common synonyms include false balance, view from nowhere.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonym: view from nowhere
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