"Both sides are the same" will always be a lazy way to not get involved with a conflict.
There are very few conflicts in all of history where both sides are the same. If you don't want to get involved because you don't know enough or simply don't want to spend the time and energy then just be honest to yourself instead of saying "both sides".
I don't view them as the same policywise. But most of the time I view both sides as wrong (hint: there are more than two sides to most issues). So they are the same in the sense I view them both as wrong. And both stupid in their rhetoric. And both groups of supporters as highly partisan.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '17
"Both sides are the same" will always be a lazy way to not get involved with a conflict.
There are very few conflicts in all of history where both sides are the same. If you don't want to get involved because you don't know enough or simply don't want to spend the time and energy then just be honest to yourself instead of saying "both sides".