Cognitive Dissonance

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Snowcheck on September 29th, 2017 at 10:43 UTC »

Describing something as "abusing/exerxising the first amendment" could make for another one of these memes.

strowen on September 29th, 2017 at 13:12 UTC »

this would have been really good if you would have just used the same wording in both instead of calling it an abuse of first amendment rights in the first one. you were so close but you just couldn't help yourself. i really believed in you

stoprockandrollkids on September 29th, 2017 at 13:19 UTC »

As much as I agree with this comic, I really don't like how different, slanted phrasing is used for each panel ("exercising" vs "abusing"). It shows obvious bias and to some extent undermines the strength of the message, in my opinion.

A Trump supporter now can just respond "oh really? Well I think its the football players who are abusing their free speech and the Google employee who's exercising it!"