< False Dichotomy
False Dichotomy/Quotes
Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right.
"And now lets turn to a columnist who believes that simply presenting Both Sides of a story is no substitute for proper, discriminating journalism... And with the opposite point of view we have Stuart Kinsey, who opposes rape, bedwetting, and dreaming of your own mother naked."
Where does this idea that, if NPR is wrong, Fox News must be right, come from? They can’t both be right, because they contradict each other. But couldn’t they both be wrong? I don’t mean slightly wrong, I don’t mean each is half right and each is half wrong, I don’t mean the truth is somewhere between them, I mean neither of them has any consistent relationship to reality.
—Mencius Moldbug, An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
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