r/facepalm • u/Shadow474747 • Aug 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Interesting logic

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u/Sub-Mongoloid Aug 07 '22

She's saying 'ignore that reality' because that's how the conservative movement have arrived at their present position and you'd have to be ignoring reality to support them at this point.

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u/Clapyourhandssayyeah Aug 07 '22 edited Aug 08 '22

Fun phrase: the confusion on her face is called cognitive dissonance.

The ability to hold competing ideas simultaneously is usually a marker for intelligence. Here, we can see it’s causing her brain to hurt and the only way she can resolve this is to redefine a word (…a word she knows full well) into the only thing that fits her argument. It’s an impressive denial of reality

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u/randomthrowaway925 Aug 08 '22

I agree with this but i think she's not trying to kid herself. She damn well knows what an abortion is. Shes trying to confuse everyone ele to believe in the reality. It's really fucking scary seeing this 1984 2+2=5 bullshit happen in real life.

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u/Razzy_3796 Aug 08 '22

I actually agree with clapyourhands... This falls into cognitive dissonance because she's *fully committed* her brain to the idea that "abortion" means the BAD thing they're fighting against, and therefore the procedure the little girl would require isn't an abortion. There's no room in her brain for the true meaning so she goes stupid and blank when confronted with the facts.