Sometimes "balance" can really be unbalanced #gaslighting & #postjournalism, i.e. the #bothsidesism practiced by the corporate #MSM.
However, the Socialist Worker article is a good addition here.
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‘Nice’ little sneery quote included from Frosty-the-no-man, one of the key architects of the disastrous Brexit deal.
You know, the one where Brexiters said ‘no-one’s talking about leaving the single market’ and then did.
Just more
#BothSidesism when #BrexitHasClearlyFailed
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#Klein was participating in the #bothsidesism BS the media likes to do.
The good side of Nazis.
The good side of racists.
The good side of haters.
The good side of . . .
Bothsidesism is #Cowardice.
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Abolish ICE..you can’t f%*king have it both ways!
#Bothsidesism
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#KollapsUm9: der vorauseilende Gehorsam der deutschen Presse ggü einer Zukunft, in der Lügen gleichberechtigt neben Wahrheiten stehen, in der #falsebalance und #bothsidesism nicht mehr kritisiert, sondern zum allgemeinen Prinzip gesellschaftlicher Bildung erhoben werden...
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Neutraliteit is niet: de waarheid en een leugen evenveel ruimte geven. Dat is valse balans. ⚖️❌
#media #journalistiek #bothsidesism
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sure #bothsidesism make you stupid. but is there a limit?
apparently not!
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Maybe we need to start calling those #BothSideism people Republican Butt Snorkellers.
It's not that Dems don't ever screw up, they do, and when they do, they should be called out.
But #BothSidesism people do false equivalence
democracytoolkit.press/resources/av...
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one side is a f*ing occupier. one side is capable of truly industrialised mass slaughter, and delights in undertaking it. one side gets a pass from the racist West for its murderous brutality
until this reality is recognised, there will not be a chance for peace
#milquetoast #bothsidesism
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Well! The Grand Poo-Bahs of #BothSidesism is FINALLY standing up to #DementiaDon!
www.huffpost.com/entry/scotus...
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But, dont believe the journalists. The extant studies, if they show a difference between right and left in terms of conspiracy belief, show little difference. Certainly not enough difference to suggest that the left is sound and savvy while the right is a bunch of conspiracy nuts — Joe Uscinski (@JoeUscinski) August 3, 2018 The problem with this tweet is twofold: first, there are some individual differences between left and right — which I wrote about in that March 2016 article mentioned before — and second, individual-level differences are not the whole story — not by a long shot. Diamonds and coal are both made of carbon. At the atomic level, they’re identical. At the molecular level, not so much. It’s not what they’re made of that makes them different, it’s how they’re put together.
Along these same lines, I challenged Joe Uscinski's #bothsidesism pointing out that just because conspiracist cognition was ~evenly distributed across the ideological spectrum that atomic-level observation said nothing about how molecular structures were formed.
www.salon.com/2018/08/18/q...
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This is way too kind re Yglesias. Post/anti-liberal leftists aren't represented among Dem electeds, although some are unfairly attacked as such in malicious #bothsidesism. Mamdani gives an excellent example of how this false narrative crumbles in the light of day. 1/2
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Natürlich ist es Politikkommentatorendeppen nicht zu dumm, den bestenfalls ein bisserl sozialdemokratischen #Mamdani 'linkslink' zu heißen, um ein nettes #Hufeisen mit einem 'rechtsrechten' #Trump konstruieren zu können & so dessen #Faschismus zu normalisieren. #Bothsidesism vom Blödesten.
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Excuse-moi, je n’avais pas lu la critique de la CAQ et de son énième recours au bâillon dans ta publication initiale. 🤷🏻♂️
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Reject #Bothsidesism
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She warned us 70 years ago: the real danger isn't making people believe lies—it's making them give up on truth entirely. Hannah Arendt was a German-born political philosopher who survived the rise of Nazism, fled Europe, and spent the rest of her life trying to understand how civilized societies descend into totalitarian nightmares. In 1951, she published "The Origins of Totalitarianism," a work that remains chillingly relevant today. Arendt's central insight was this: totalitarian systems don't succeed by convincing people of their ideology. They succeed by destroying people's ability to think at all. In her most famous observation from that book, Arendt wrote: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (and the distinction between true and false) no longer exists." Read that again. The goal isn't belief—it's confusion. It's exhaustion. It's making people so overwhelmed by competing claims, so buried in lies and counter-lies, that they simply give up trying to know what's real. When you can no longer tell truth from lies, you can no longer tell right from wrong. And when that happens, you become easy to control—not because you've been persuaded, but because you've stopped trying to think for yourself.
Arendt understood something crucial: totalitarian education is not about indoctrination—it's about destroying the capacity to form any convictions at all. If people believe nothing, question nothing, and trust nothing, they won't resist anything. They'll float along, numb and passive, as the world around them darkens. In her later essay "Truth and Politics" (1967), Arendt explored how lies function in political systems. She observed that constant, pervasive lying doesn't just spread falsehoods—it erodes the very concept of truth. When everything is contested, when every fact is dismissed as partisan, when reality itself becomes a matter of opinion, then truth loses its power entirely. And when truth has no power, neither does justice, morality, or human dignity. Arendt watched this happen in real time in 1930s Germany. She saw how the Nazis didn't just lie—they created an environment where lying became so constant, so overwhelming, that ordinary people stopped caring what was true. They became numb. Cynical. Detached. And in that numbness, atrocities became possible. She wrote about this not to assign blame, but to issue a warning: This can happen anywhere. It can happen to anyone. It starts not with violence, but with the slow destruction of our ability to distinguish reality from fiction.
So, what do we do? Arendt believed the answer lay in what she called "thinking." Not just absorbing information, but actively engaging with it. Questioning. Reflecting. Holding multiple perspectives. Refusing to accept easy answers or simplistic explanations. She wrote: "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." Meaning: the moment we stop thinking critically, the moment we accept any narrative without question—even one we agree with—we've already lost. Totalitarianism doesn't announce itself with jackboots and tanks. It begins quietly, in the gradual erosion of our capacity to know what's real. It thrives in cynicism, exhaustion, and the belief that "all politicians lie" or "you can't trust anyone" or "who knows what's really true anymore? "That resignation—that exhaustion—is exactly what Arendt warned us about. Hannah Arendt died in 1975, but her warning echoes forward: Guard your capacity to think. Demand evidence. Distinguish between fact and opinion. Don't let the flood of lies make you give up on truth itself. Because once you stop caring what's true, you've already lost everything that matters. The fight isn't just about believing the right things. It's about refusing to stop thinking at all.
Share this with everyone you know.
Reject #Bothsidesism
Encourage people to think.
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