BREAKING: Babylon Bee suspended from Twitter for ‘hateful content’ over Rachel Levine joke

Source: The Post Millennial
Published: Mar 20, 2022
Author: Mia Cathell
Post Date: 2022-03-20 23:30:53 by Bill D Berger
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Satirical site The Babylon Bee's offical Twitter account was suspended from the Big Tech platform on Sunday for "hateful content" after posting a joke making fun of US Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, a biological male who identifies as transgender. The joke called Levine the satire website's "Man of the Year."

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The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon announced on Sunday he received notice that the site's Twitter account has been locked out for "hateful conduct."

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#1: Pinguinite    To: Bill D Berger (#0)

Here's the current write-up at BB:

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The Babylon Bee has selected Rachel Levine as its first annual Man of the Year.

Levine is the U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he serves proudly as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman. He is also an admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. What a boss!

Rachel's original name is Richard Levine, but he changed it to Rachel for some strange reason a few years ago. Who cares? Who says a dude as accomplished as this can't be named "Rachel?" This king doesn't care what people think about him! He often wears a dress, which some people think is weird—but he doesn't care one bit. Come on! Men in India wear dress-type garments, don't they?

Rachel's message is to "be true to yourself," and we couldn't agree more. This man is breaking barriers and showing us all the true meaning of courage.

We applaud this precious and perfectly made child of God for all his accomplishments and hope he stays true to who God made him to be.

UPDATE: Since announcing this award, we've been told that Levine actually identifies as a woman. We have still chosen to give the award as his self-identification has no bearing on the truth. Congratulations, Rachel Levine!

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The Twitter rule seems to state:

may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of

While the "basis of" clause does stipulate gender identity, it only applies if the content: "promote violence against", "directly attacks" or "threatens" the person, and I don't see where any of those are done in BB's write-up.

Pinguinite posted on 2022-03-21 00:23:01   Reply   Private Reply


#2: NeoconsNailed    To: Pinguinite (#1)

It's not the actuality anymore but the fever Jewish imaginings about it the governs everything.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2022-03-21 02:04:09   Reply   Private Reply


#3: Dakmar    To: Pinguinite (#1)

Laughter is violence.

Dakmar posted on 2022-03-21 12:13:32   Reply   Private Reply


#4: Lod    To: Bill D Berger (#0)

So in the twitter-verse, truthful = hateful. Got it.

Another reason that I do not tweet. (That, and I don't have that phone.)

Lod posted on 2022-03-21 13:48:31   Reply   Private Reply


#5: Esso    To: Lod, 4um (#4)

The Daily Wire guys are trying to get banned from EweToob over this...

A Hulking Dude Is Not A Female Swimmer | Ep. 967

Esso posted on 2022-03-21 14:00:59   Reply   Private Reply


#6: Pinguinite    To: Esso (#5)

It appears BB is slated to be on Tucker tonight.

Pinguinite posted on 2022-03-21 14:29:03   Reply   Private Reply