bothsidesism

[bohth-sahydz-iz-uhm]

noun

1. the practice or habit of representing opposing arguments as equally strong or invalid, whether they are or not.

Example Sentences

Another pitfall is that subplots featuring abortion storylines are hard to pull off without feeling like a break from scheduled programming for an antiabortion or pro-abortion-rights PSA, or worse, a pointless exercise in bothsidesism.

From Los Angeles Times

Whataboutism and bothsidesism are tactics utilized to dismiss moral calls to end genocide.

From Salon

Such moments of pro-democracy journalism and bold truth-telling are, for the most part, inconsistent and quickly retreated from as the mainstream media defautls back to its bad and obsolete habits of false equivalence, “bothsidesism,” “objectivity,” and horserace politics.

From Salon

It’s not bothsidesism to scope the way bad assumptions flew from left and right.

From Slate

The irony is that the media did this to themselves, by spending decades in the cozy-but-misleading framework of "bothsidesism."

From Salon