Do you have an anime pfp? Perhaps you are a woman in a comment section filled with incels. Your opinion will therefore be invalidated.
User with Anime Pfp: These incels need to touch some grass
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Comment Below: Anime Pfp Detected, Opinion Invalid.
by User in their mom’s basement May 25, 2022
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If I did.
Hym "It wouldn't invalidate my position if I did. So not super relevant. Like, I wrote a whole thing about the incoherence of externally imposed karmic empathy and the faulty logic behind 'using someone's own logic against them' and you took the wrong lesson from it and unironically did the criticism of the thing I was writing about... So, you know... Dumb. Dumb and bad."
by Hym Iam December 18, 2025
Get the It wouldn't invalidate my position mug.A bias where one systematically invalidates sources of opposing information—attacking credibility, questioning motives, dismissing expertise—rather than engaging the information itself. Invalidation Bias doesn't need to refute claims; it just needs to discredit the source. If the source can't be trusted, the information doesn't need to be considered.
"He never addressed her arguments—just attacked her credentials, her funding, her personal life. Invalidation Bias: when you can't beat the message, discredit the messenger. The information remains unaddressed, but that's the point. Invalidate first, think never."
by Dumu The Void March 4, 2026
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