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Conversely, when you grew disillusioned with your own bubble, and encountered propaganda from "the other side", don't immediately trust them. Two things can be true or false at once. Two terrible things can be terrible differently.
Sure, but I really don't think that's what this is about. As I said, we have a lot of westerners here who are unaccustomed to information from outside their gov approved narratives. Swinging wildly the other way (at least temporarily) is probably healthy and reasonable. Throwing up your hands and saying "both sides bad" while conveniently sharing a POV with the US state department really isn't.
I'd like to think I have the ability to hate both equally, even though they're each distinctly evil and wrong.
I don't know. I've seen way too many times how 'both-sidesing' ends up benefiting the main villain. I think that you don't realize that your consent is being manufactured. What good does it do for a US citizen to criticize the government of Iran, at a time when our government is waging an illegal war on them? It only furthers the propaganda narrative that our military actions are justified in some way. Whatever crimes they have committed there pale in comparison to the crimes committed by the US-- one of a very short list of countries that Westerners have any business criticizing.