Two Sides to Every Story
The phrase there are two sides to every story makes me laugh into my pasta or burned toast.
That is what Boris Johnson implied when they said he lied.
And Putin said when the West accused him of an invasion as he rolled his tanks into Ukraine, but he called it a special operation. Many in the Global South took his side. Not I.
I laugh because words to the same effect slid from the mouth of Trump when his supporter ran over a woman in Charlotesville.
That is what the apologists for Muritala Mohammed said when his men massacred civilians in Asaba. Two sides.
And the Beeb claims when its bean counters insist on giving prominence to middle class genocide deniers, racists and conspiracy theorists. To placate the powerful who would like it pole axed.
Yes, there may be more than one side to every story, but there are two sides to a toilet seat too. Yet you know which side to sit on.
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