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Polarized-but-balanced is at least as misguided as separate-but-equal.

• nothingnew2 3y ago
  It's better than "polarised but unbalanced".
  • teddyh 3y ago
    I’m not sure; an unbalanced opinion is obviously unbalanced, and it’s easier to see it as not being the whole picture. But a seemingly reasonable opinion combined with a straw man of an opposing view, is harder to unlearn.
    • nothingnew2 3y ago
      That is true enough. In this case, I think a useful learning outcome is that the backwards reading is, in theory and ignoring the emotional word choices, as politically extreme as the forwards reading. However, I doubt most will see it this way.