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A form of cognitive bias where any socially constructed concept—a nation, a legal system, a currency, a cultural norm—is treated as if it were as arbitrarily interchangeable as the Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) of satirical theology. The bias consists of dismissing the reality or significance of social constructs by reductively equating them to any other construct, claiming that because both are “made up,” they are equally fictional or equally arbitrary. For example, replacing “NATO” with “the Kingdom of Abzu” in an argument about geopolitics, and then treating the serious analysis as absurd because the substitute is obviously made up. The bias ignores that social constructs have material effects, histories, institutional weight, and differential power—not all constructs are equivalent just because none exist in a pre-social vacuum.
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