by heugheghughghe January 4, 2024
Get the Nutrealize mug.The fallacious demand that to be taken seriously, an argument must be presented with detached, emotionless "neutrality," especially in politicized debates. This bias weaponizes the tone of delivery against the substance of the argument. It dismisses passionate advocacy for justice, accounts of personal trauma, or moral outrage as "unobjective," thereby protecting the status quo by requiring that its victims debate their own suffering in the calm language of their oppressors.
Example: A speaker detailing systemic racism is interrupted with, "You're too angry to be logical. If you could state your case neutrally, we could listen." This is Neutrality Bias. It invalidates the argument by criticizing the justifiable emotional presentation, prioritizing the comfort of the audience over the reality of the content.
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by yOdAdAbEscared November 11, 2018
Get the Net Neutrality mug.the belief that keeping your karma neutral is the best thing you can do. If you uphold Karmatic Neutrality, you don't want to be the good guy OR the bad guy.
Person: That guy isn't mean to us, but he hasn't helped. Should we recruit him?
Me: It seems he is just upholding Karmatic Neutrality to "Lie low".
Me: It seems he is just upholding Karmatic Neutrality to "Lie low".
by thestrigidae December 3, 2020
Get the Karmatic Neutrality mug.A condition in which one responds to a stimulus in a consistently apathetic and impartial demeanor regardless of the severity of the given situation.
Perhaps we would have acted sooner if we weren’t deceived by the passive tone of Bill’s extreme neutrality.
by Blndbomb December 13, 2021
Get the Extreme Neutrality mug.The belief that the most common or popular position on an issue is automatically the most neutral one—that consensus equals objectivity. The Majority Neutralist assumes that if most people believe something, that belief must be free of bias, because bias is deviation from the norm. This flips the actual relationship: majorities have the most powerful biases, the ones that get to dress up as "common sense" precisely because they're invisible to those who hold them. The majority view isn't neutral—it's just the bias you don't have to defend.
"Most people in this country agree with me, so I'm obviously not biased—I'm just normal." That's Majority Neutrality Bias: mistaking the water you're swimming in for the absence of water.
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Get the Majority Neutrality Bias mug.The assumption that ideas circulated by mainstream institutions—major media outlets, established publishers, popular platforms—represent a neutral middle ground between fringe extremes. The Mainstream Neutralist treats the Overton Window as if it were reality itself, rather than a socially constructed range of acceptable debate. They forget that today's mainstream was yesterday's radical fringe and will be tomorrow's obsolete relic. The mainstream isn't neutral—it's just where power has currently settled.
"I just read the centrist newspaper—they're not biased like those crazy partisan sites," she said, unaware that her "centrist" paper had an editorial board, a corporate owner, and a demographic of readers whose interests shaped every story. Mainstream Neutrality Bias: when the middle of the road is still a road, built somewhere, going somewhere.
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