2011-11-17
Original: 2011-11-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: IT CUTS BOTH WAYS.
Panel 1: A man in a dark suit, red tie, and sunglasses, with grey hair and an American flag lapel pin, stands against a blue background.
Man: "IF YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING BAD, YOU HAVE NO REASON TO FEAR GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP."
Panel 2: A woman with dark hair wearing a green shirt stands against a blue background, frowning.
Woman: "IF YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING BAD, YOU HAVE NO REASON TO FEAR FREE SPEECH."
Votey: The aftercomic image is blank (solid black, no visible content).
Panel 1: A man in a dark suit, red tie, and sunglasses, with grey hair and an American flag lapel pin, stands against a blue background.
Man: "IF YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING BAD, YOU HAVE NO REASON TO FEAR GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP."
Panel 2: A woman with dark hair wearing a green shirt stands against a blue background, frowning.
Woman: "IF YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING BAD, YOU HAVE NO REASON TO FEAR FREE SPEECH."
Votey: The aftercomic image is blank (solid black, no visible content).
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "It cuts both ways." In the first panel, a grey-haired man in a dark suit, red tie, sunglasses, and an American flag lapel pin says against a blue background, "If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear government censorship." In the second panel, a frowning dark-haired woman in a green shirt, against the same blue background, says, "If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear free speech." The joke turns the smug pro-censorship cliche back on itself by applying the identical logic to free speech. The votey aftercomic is blank.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.