If, in the misguided attempt to try to be “fair-minded”, someone on “our side” calls into question the legitimacy of our opposition to creeping authoritarianism
Whoa there. So what you’re saying is that it’s OK for you to misrepresent what I - as somebody nominally on the ‘same side’ as you are - was pointing out, but it’s not cool for me to point out that person B’s attack on person A (both parties also being on ‘our side’) seemed to be missing person A’s point?
Ain’t nobody here trying to be fair with accommodating the ‘other side’ - I happen to be rather sympathetic with your first paragraph (which is, more or less, Lenin’s ‘useful idiots’ deal) but that’s not what this minor backstreet argument is about at all.
