A real tendency to believe that 'bothsides-ism' is the same thing as 'nuance'. It ain't. The truth isn't always in the middle.
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There's no other discipline in which a certain kind of bland European liberalism is not just an ideological but methodological requirement. Along with the pretense that it is not ideological.
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I think it's why I ended up being formally a literary critic. Not because I am a relativist--I am not--but because I didn't have to keep pretending that I was above all ideology & constitutively even-handed.
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honest answer: It is psychologically quite painful to realize you are part of a class benefiting from systemic oppression. nowhere near as painful as being oppressed, but the impulse to both sides comes from a desire to not have your foot on anothers neck despite all evidence.
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Racism plays upon the cultivation of a false consciousness that figures the world as white. Acknowledging that one benefits from hierarchies of race, class and gender is the essential step for allyship IMHO
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False Equivalence is a bitter brew I cannot get accustomed to...
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Ireland's revisionists historians generally castigated Irish nationalism and republicanism in the name of "balance". Effectively they acted as apologists for British colonialism and went on to careers in British college's. Funny how that goes.
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...aaand, here's a classic example of nuance being mistaken for false equivalence/both-sides-ism, with a side order of sweeping generalizations.
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Thanks in large part to the Subaltern school at least some of us in Europe got taught beyond the bland post-imperial both sidesism (hat tip to The Rise & Demise of Imperialism section at
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It’s that air of not being taken in by appearances. Mimicry of seeing further than others. Drove me nuts when an active historian. See also reviews of really good books: ‘however, when X turns to...’
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