We live in a time of universal deceit. Consequently, telling the truth is a revolutionary act — so revolutionary, it’ll get you immediately banned by Big Brother.
Satirical news website Babylon Bee was reportedly suspended from Twitter on Sunday for what the social media platform determined to be “hateful conduct.”
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon revealed that Twitter had “locked out” the fake news publisher from its official account for alleged “hateful conduct.”
So, what hate-speech horror did the Bee commit this time?
It called a man… a man.
According to the notice, Twitter suspended the Babylon Bee for writing: “The Babylon Bee’s Man Of The Year Is Rachel Levine.”
“Rachel” — real name Richard — is not an incredibly ugly woman: he’s an incredibly ugly man, pretending to be an ugly woman.
The Babylon Bee article reads, “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,” the piece jokes. “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?”
Behind the Bee’s satire is some stinging truth: Levine is, indeed, a man. Possibly a fully intact, cock’n’balls dude (like so much about this otherwise public figure, his “transgender” status is not public knowledge — despite your taxes funding this cross-dressing man’s entire career, what, exactly, you’re paying for is none of your business, Joe Punch-Clock).
The essence of satire, as Orwell noted, is bringing down the high-and-mighty with a well-deserved thump. The higher the fall, the funnier the joke. Smashing a pie in the face of a president — or a “four-star admiral”* — is funnier than smashing one in the face of a hobo.
But the one thing the powerful really can’t stand is being laughed at.
Hence the wrath of Big Tech descending instantly on the Bee’s head.
The Bee is in some august company, when it comes to speaking truth to the clowns in power.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) had his Twitter account “censored” for calling Levine a “man.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was also suspended for saying that Levine is a “man.”
Earlier this month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was flagged for “hateful conduct” by Twitter for calling Levine a biological male.
To their credit, though, the Bee is refusing to buckle in and say that 2+2=5 — or that X+Y=“woman”.
“We’re not deleting anything,” Dillon proclaimed. “Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it.”
Babylon Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann reacted to the suspension by tweeting, “We at @TheBabylonBee stated the fact that a man is a man, through satire, and got locked out of this platform for it. We are living in a clown world.”
The Blaze
Honk-honk, indeed.
*The “rank” is an entirely civilian one: Richard Levine has never served a single day in the armed forces.
