• edward@lemmy.ml
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    Media Bias Fact Check, the site that makes no distinction between centrism and being unbiased.

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      1 year ago

      your opinion ≠ fact, although you’re welcome to attempt to prove your claim.

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        Are you saying that being a centrist and being unbiased are the same? Is there no such thing as a centrist bias?

        And don’t say I’m putting words in your mouth. You said that my comment isn’t fact, so what about it isn’t factual?

        Or are you saying the site does make that distinction? Because their scale of left bias - unbiased - right bias with a complete lack of centrist bias is proof that they don’t. Here’s the proof of my claim, right from their website, the center is labeled “least biased”:

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          Amazing that a grown adult doesn’t understand the concept of bias. Wait till he discovers that what centrist opinions are changes from country to country. Gonna absolutely blow his mind.

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          And don’t say I’m putting words in your mouth

          but that’s exactly what you did.

          You said that my comment isn’t fact, so what about it isn’t factual?

          you expressed an opinion.

          Because their scale of left bias - unbiased - right bias with a complete lack of centrist bias is proof that they don’t. Here’s the proof of my claim

          all that you’ve proven is that it is, in fact, you who cannot distinguish centrism from being unbiased because you conflate the center of a bias spectrum with political centrism in a context where the two are only political bias is being discussed and you’e trying to inject political alignment as a:

          Straw man

          A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.[1] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be “attacking a straw man”

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            Please tell me where on their bias spectrum a centrist biased source would go. I’m not conflating anything, the site is.

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              I just explained how that’s not what this spectrum illustrates. your lack of comprehension is to my responsibility.

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                What does the spectrum illustrate if not bias? Because it sure looks like it’s a scale of bias: Extreme Left Bias, Left Bias, Left-Center Bias, Least Bias, Right-Center Bias, Extreme Right Bias. And it sure seems to correspond with the part of the article right below it that explicitly says “Right-Center Bias

                And again, where would a centrist biased source go on that spectrum?

                Also: ad hominem if you want to just link logical fallacies.

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                  I already explained how that’s not what this spectrum illustrates. your lack of comprehension is not my responsibility.

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                    What, political bias vs political alignment? Again, where would a heavily biased, centrist aligned source go on their graph? You haven’t answered that.