There are two sides to every argument

It's true! There always are two sides, at least! It is hard, though not impossible, to have an argument without at least two sides, the problem, and it is a problem particularly in "unbiased" reporting these days, is that often one of those sides is irredeemably horrible and doesn't need any pretense of legitimacy applied to it.

A couple of years back, Bill Nye the Science Guy debated Ken Ham, a creationist named after a food, in an attempt to push back against creationism in general, a noble goal to be sure, but a mistake.

There are not two sides in the science vs creationism debate, the two sides have literally no common ground to argue against, the science side can put out all the evidence they want, and the creationists just have to say "God did it, it's in the bible" and that is all the proof they need. Debating them seriously in a public setting does nothing but give them a platform for their views.

We see it today too, with the current Planned Parenthood debate reignited after this weekends shooting, we get news articles talking about extremists on both sides and talking about how "maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle" but failing to mention that one side literally wants people dead over it, and it is not the responsibility of the oppressed to make their oppressors comfortable with themselves. If one side is uncomfortable being described as a pack of opportunistic jackals inciting acts of terror with hate speech, then perhaps they should look at why they are being described as such.

See, here, one side of the "debate" would like to not get shot, the other side of the debate would like to encourage, both subtly and otherwise, the misinformation represented by things like the videos released earlier this year, or the nonexistent videos that Carly Fiorina claims to have seen, the know these are at best, misleading and at worst, utter and complete fakes or nonexistent, yet they don't get called out on it really, because both sides have to be treated as equal for some damn reason.

I feel like there is a very simple way to know if you are a good guy and if you are taking good actions, you need to ask yourself: Does any part of my plan include walking into a building and shooting a bunch of people? If the answer is yes, you are a not a good guy and your ideology does not deserve to be treated with any respect.

You never see a Feminist shooting up a football stadium, you don't see Black Lives Matter protesters bombing cop cars, and yet members of both groups are routinely targeted for harassment and violence by those who oppose them, but somehow we are at the point that in the minds of the media that getting shot sixteen times in the back is just as bad as protesting a police station, and protesters being shot by white supremacists is just as "extreme" as the protest itself somehow, it isn't, it doesn't deserve to be talked about with any language other than that of terrorism, and refusing to do so literally supports those acts of terrorism and legitimizes them in the minds of the public.