Posted on 03/21/2022 7:17:29 AM PDT by Morgana
Conservative Christian satire website The Babylon Bee has been suspended by Twitter over a tweet naming transgender US Assistant Secretary of Health Dr Rachel Levine its 'Man of the Year.'
Despite facing the prospect of a permanent ban from the social media platform, where it has 1.3 million followers, the website has struck a defiant tone, refusing to delete the offending tweet targeting the trailblazing government official.
'Truth is not hate speech,' Seth Dillon, the website's CEO, tweeted on Sunday. 'If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it.'
On March 15, The Babylon Bee's Twitter account fired off a tweet featuring a link to an article bearing the headline: 'The Babylon Bee’s Man Of The Year Is Rachel Levine.'
It came in response to USA Today's decision to name Levine as one of its women of the year, and as controversy continues to rage over transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.
The story repeatedly used male pronouns to refer to Levine, who identifies as a woman, 'dead-named' her by using her male birth name, and mocked her appearance, describing the senior health official as being 'the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman.'
The article continued: 'He is also an admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. What a boss!
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Satire. Suprised they didn’t fact check it also.
They can’t handle the truth.
While The Bee is just a silly satire site, I have an ever growing respect for it.
The Richard Levine in question is a dude … a substandard confused and perverted dude.
He can be nothing else. He’s not a woman.
But I disagree with calling him man of the year … maybe nitwit of the year would work though.
>>> the trailblazing government official. <<<
Blazing a trail directly to hell.
All we’ve got to do is stop playing by their rules, and refuse to be intimidated by their perverted moral posturing and the entire twisted world they’ve constructed will come tumbling down.
I would think that by now, the Bee would be bigger than twitter
A real news site would have named Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine as Batcrap-Crazy Lunatic of the Year."
There’s an old saying “there’s no such thing as bad publicity “.....I’m sure The Bee appreciates the exposure.
Yep. Apologizing only emboldened them.
NEVER APOLOGIZE
Evil cannot handle being mocked.
Skillful satire / mocking is one of the post powerful weapons against the Left, and authoritarians in general. Triggers them like nothing else.
Never back down. Never apologize. Not that they have anything to apologize for.
They already have 246,000 subscribers on Truth Social and that is good timing as TS is making serious headway on reducing their waitlist. Once TS is fully operational, there is no reason for any patriotic American to waste their time on Twitter.
Hooray, happy for Babylon Bee for standing their ground!
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Transgenderism is the modern day Emperor’s new clothes.
Bingo. Twitter continues to ban members which only sends them to alternate sites. Twitter was disappearing before President Trump and has since continued their decline.
The daily mail,is shocked that the bul,Ying of,Twitter didn’t result in immediate obedience by the Babylon bee to,their demands.
Lol the bee should post a “correction post” that says “since twitter wont allow actual truth on their site, and has punished us for pub,ishingmthe truth, we thought we”d revise our previous post with “nitwit of the year, and still a man”
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