The censors at Twitter have punished The Babylon Bee, the satirical website, for the supposed sin of hurt feelings after the Bee published another story that mixed in-your-face common sense and not-so-subtle humor.
Twitter locked the Bee’s account over the weekend after the popular website “awarded” Rachel Levine (pictured above), the transgender Biden administration official, with the title “Man of the Year.”
Levine, who is a biological man with long hair, is the U.S. assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
The article was flagged as “hateful conduct” by Twitter and now the Bee’s corporate account, with 1 million-plus followers, remains locked until the article is removed. Seth Dillon, the Bee’s CEO, has refused to do so.
The topics that end up as Babylon Bee articles typically mirror and mock the news of the day and, sure enough, the satirical Levine story came after USA Today named him among its “Women of the Year” in a story it published last week.
Piggy-backing on the USA Today story, the Bee article states that dress-wearing Levine “serves proudly as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman.”
Not done with that observation, the Bee article then points out that Levine was named “admiral” in the U.S. Public Service Commission Corps. That sentence, in fact, is entirely true.
“I am honored to serve as the first female four-star officer of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,” Levine stated last fall, “and the first openly transgender four-star officer to serve across any of the eight uniformed services.”
Levine is currently serving as the highest-ranking “trans” official in the LGBT-crazed Biden administration, earning him accolades from the Left for making history. That supposed achievement also sets him up to be sheltered from criticism, even if it’s done with humor.
Curtis Houck of Media Research Center reminds AFN that the Bee has emerged as an enemy of right wing-hating social media because of its stories that use humor to make the point.
“Satire,” he says, “is one of the purest forms of free speech.”
Dillon told AFN in a Sept. 2021 story the satirical website was fighting social media giant Facebook over a policy that allows satire but only if it doesn’t “punch down” at the target. The glaring problem with that policy, he said at the time, is Facebook gets to decide what is a fair target and what is off limits.
“Right now the biggest threat to free speech is not coming from the state or federal government,” Dillon told AFN. “It’s coming from tech companies that wield unprecedented power.”
After the Bee’s account was locked over its Levine story, Twitter has since suspended Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk for a post that pointed out Levine lived as a husband and father until age 51.
This week, Dillon’s personal Twitter account was also being reported by the left-wing mob determined to block him from social media.
“The Left isn’t interested in freedom or debate,” he warned. “They demand ideological conformity. Submit or they’ll silence you.”
Twitter also flagged a Twitter post by Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, after he referred to Levine as a “he” in a post. The post was allowed to remain but was slapped with a warning.
According to a Daily Wire story, independent reporter Savanah Hernandez said Twitter suspended her account — for the second time — over the issue of “Lia” Thomas, the male collegiate swimmer. Hernandez told the Wire the mob came after her when her interview with a female Virginia Tech swimmer went viral.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Babylon Bee should send Twitter some drones. Not the kind that come out of a beehive who are products of an unfertilized Queen’s eggs who produce drones that like Twitter have bigger eyes but lack stingers. The ones incoming into Ukraine these days from Putin is more of what I had in mind. Let Twitter be stung by their own kind.
OR train up some african killer bees, and let them LOSE On Twitter HQ!
“Levine is currently serving as the highest-ranking “trans” official in the LGBT-crazed Biden administration,”
Thursday, March 12, 2015. Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
“Joe Biden went on to assure the pro-LGBTQ crowd that even though his butt buddy Barrack Obama’s administration cannot enforce a thought police, people who stand for their religious convictions are in the process of being wiped out — as the White House’s homosexual agenda continues to proliferate across the nation. Carson and others who ascribe to the biblical view of homosexuality should be eradicated from the planet in the name of “equality” and “tolerance.” “
We all can see is that the treasonous puppet president F… Joe Biden is still Barrack Obama’s butt buddy in more ways than one.
This dumb what ever it is had to have started out as an ensign at one time. Why didn’t you and your fellow sailors mutiny and make this idiot walk the plank?
Wilddog:
The treasonous, puppet president F… Joe Biden was not in the military and did not serve his country in the military, he just leached off of his country as a corrupt politician.
There is NOTHING i can see, in “ITS” record, saying it served in the military.. AND last i checked, this heath service, was NOT AN ACTUAL MILITARY BRANCH..
Rachel is named by the Babylon Bee as “Man of the Year”. USA Today names him among its “Women of the Year” recipients. Now, if Time will name him as “Person of the Year”, perhaps everybody can shut up about it and stop giving this nut way more attention than he deserves.
Sports Illustrated—spare us, please.
Our country continues to try to force citizens to think the way the far left liberals think we should think. Fringe voices rule the day.
Our Supreme Court nominee doesn’t want to tell us what a “woman” is for fear of getting caught in a trap of biological science vs woke correctness. Past time to take on these social media giants and corporate organizations who want to censor voices they don’t like. NCAA… look out. Trouble coming your way.
I have in the past, purchased items from retailers that were obvious gay or the company itself was oriented towards accepting gay’s. However, because of what the leftist, baby killing Democrats and LGBTQ have done to our children and society, I will NEVER knowingly buy anything from any company that promotes that lifestyle. These radicals need to find an isolated island somewhere with no children and initiate their complete demise.
That’s why i no longer do business with HOMODEPOT.
“Levine, who is a… man with long hair, …”
Fixed it for ya.
Flush the degenerate traitor.
Levine is one of the cruelest practical jokes ever put over on the American people….
Those who made this happen are morally and ethically bankrupt.