I’ve had a particular hate for this kind of obvious centrism in journalism. It’s antithetical to minority rights and it surprises me that anyone still tries to make this kind of argument, when we’ve clearly moved on from universally despised behavior such as owning slaves or how we report on overt racism towards say, black people in the united states. The idea that they are just ‘reporting the facts’ is laughable at best and clearly shows how little they are willing to consider the social implications of anything they publish. If a journal uses this kind of reasoning to argue on behalf of centrist writing, then it should be thrown back in their faces by their journalists whenever they ask them to double check any sources… when did this double checking happen when you platformed an anti-trans voice?