Babylon Bee editor: We refuse to bow to Twitter’s censorship of a joke
The Babylon Bee had its Twitter account suspended for a satirical article about Assistant Secretary for Well being Rachel Levine.
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Yesterday, Twitter suspended the account of satirical website The Babylon Bee for a publish that jokingly named Rachel Levine, the transgender Assistant Secretary for Well being, “Man of the 12 months.” Right here, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann, co-author of “The Babylon Bee Information to Wokeness,” explains why he isn’t going to again all the way down to the social media big’s calls for.
Nicely, it lastly occurred (we’re sort of stunned it didn’t occur sooner): The Babylon Bee has been locked out of our Twitter account.
The satirical article that offended the Twitter overlords? “The Babylon Bee’s Man Of The 12 months Is Rachel Levine.” For the straightforward offense of labeling a organic man a person, by a satirical headline, we now have misplaced entry to all 1.3 million of our followers on Twitter.
A world the place you may state a easy organic truth and face censorship, the lack of income and your livelihood, and excommunication from the general public sq. for stating fact, irrespective of how satirical tongue-in-cheek your tone is, is a scary one certainly. Because the well-known Ron Paul saying goes, “Reality is treason within the empire of lies.”
Boy, are we feeling that immediately. (Can I nonetheless say “boy” or will that get me banned too?)
After all, there’s some nuance right here: we’re satire. We’re comedy. The first objective of our satire is to deliver levity and laughter to our viewers. The truth that a purely comedic account can get banned for a joke — admittedly one which’s significantly spicy in our present cultural local weather — ought to fear everybody concerning the well being of our society. When cultural revolutions occur, the comics and entertainers are the primary to be focused by the revolutionaries. These seeking to upend our society know the ability of leisure and satire, for they use it to nice impact as they unfold their concepts to the subsequent era.
Management the comedians, management the messaging, and also you management the minds of the folks.
And certainly, it’s management over our minds that Twitter needs. They will’t simply delete the offending tweet and allow us to again in. They need us to enter our account and click on the delete button ourselves. We've got to bend the knee, kiss the ring, bow to the towering statue of LGBTQ politics when the trumpets play, or we keep on timeout indefinitely. We've got to vow to do higher, implicitly agree that calling a person a person is hate speech, after which we’ll be allowed the correct to talk on Twitter’s platform.
Nicely, we’re not going to do this. We’re preventing again. We’ll do no matter we now have to do to retain our integrity right here. As Orwell wrote, “Freedom is the liberty to say that two plus two make 4. If that's granted, all else follows.”
If we give that up, if we conform to succumb to their ideological insanity merely to entry a wider viewers, we’re giving up our minds, the final holdout in opposition to tyranny. We’ll wait Twitter out, we’ll attraction Twitter’s choice, we’ll unfold the message far and extensive that we’ve been kicked out for “hate speech” merely for telling a joke Large Tech didn't like.
It’s time to take a stand, and that point is now. If we wait any longer, we could now not have that likelihood. We’ve been extremely blessed at The Babylon Bee in that we now have a wholesome variety of paying subscribers who assist us maintain the lights on, and we’re going to make use of that to face agency right here and do what’s proper. We’ll proceed to unfold our comedy and inform our jokes that talk fact to a tradition that hates fact on no matter platforms will permit us to, and we’re grateful for individuals who stand alongside us on this struggle.
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