Bothsidesism

Quick meaning: Bothsidesism is a noun meaning A tendency to treat all policy debates as if the opposing sides present equally strong arguments, or are equally valid or equally dangerous.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: view from nowhere

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• bothsidesisms
• both-sidesism
• both sidesism

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include both-sidesism, bipolarization, bipolarism, polarization, campism, bipartisanism.

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