When cultural revolutions happen, the comics and entertainers are the first to be targeted by the revolutionaries. The fact that a purely comedic account can get banned for a joke - admittedly one that’s particularly spicy in our current cultural climate - should worry everyone about the health of our society. The primary goal of our satire is to bring levity and laughter to our audience. Of course, there’s some nuance here: we’re satire. (Can I still say “boy” or will that get me banned too?) Twitter claimed the account violated the rules against “hateful conduct.” are we feeling that today. As the famous Ron Paul saying goes, “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” The satirical article that offended the Twitter overlords? “The Babylon Bee’s Man Of The Year Is Rachel Levine.” For the simple offense of labeling a biological man a man, through a satirical headline, we have lost access to all 1.3 million of our followers on Twitter.Ī world where you can state a simple biological fact and face censorship, the loss of revenue and your livelihood, and excommunication from the public square for stating truth, no matter how satirical tongue-in-cheek your tone is, is a scary one indeed. Well, it finally happened (we’re kind of surprised it didn’t happen sooner): The Babylon Bee has been locked out of our Twitter account.
Yesterday, Twitter suspended the account of satirical site The Babylon Bee for a post that jokingly named Rachel Levine, the transgender Assistant Secretary for Health, “Man of the Year.” Here, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann, co-author of “The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness,” explains why he isn’t going to back down to the social media giant’s demands. Mom of man caught joining mile-high club learned of tryst with woman he just met at airport while watching TVįans slam ‘disgusting’ Whoopi Goldberg for rude question to co-host on ‘The View’Įlon Musk blew out disc in his neck after trying to ‘judo throw’ 350-pound sumo wrestler: book Elon Musk called British cave diver ‘pedo guy’ because he was ‘in grief’ over Amber Heard: brother
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