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It’s the same thing.īut the banning of Babylon Bee-and the Stalinist public apology that’s being demanded of them before Twitter will allow them back-is particularly insidious. The same people applauding Twitter’s decision to ban Babylon Bee are denouncing Florida’s Parental Rights in Education act as a “Don’t Say Gay” bill. While I don’t find misgendering to be the “assault” that its most hysterical opponents claim, I also, like Hannibal Lecter, find discourtesy unspeakably ugly.īut where are the classical liberal values? What the hell has happened to the left that they no longer understand their obligation to defend speech with which they disagree? Why do they no longer realize that the instant you normalize blocking distasteful speech you have paved the way for your own speech to be blocked. I want to state that I personally am of the opinion that it’s generally better to be kind to everyone, and call people by whatever name and pronouns they prefer. But because efforts by a de facto monopoly company to squelch ideas with which it disagrees cut across the soul of America’s founding ideals. Not because the Babylon Bee’s joke was appropriate, or even funny. Twitter’s banning of the Babylon Bee over its tweet naming transgender Biden administration official Rachel Levine its “man of the year” is an outrage. Those questioning that identity have been banned by Twitter. I hire people publicly, with wine!” Kassam captioned a photo of the pair enjoying a bottle of red.Rachel Levine, four-star admiral and US assistant secretary for health, identifies as a woman. Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of the National Pulse, quickly swooped in to offer Wax a new fires people publicly, and whines. Luckily for Wax, he didn’t head into the long weekend unemployed. But still, Wax’s defenders said that the Bee was engaging in conservative cancel culture. He also insisted that he would have fired a DeSantis supporter if he had behaved the same way. Others alleged Wax was fired because of the use of profanity, but this explanation didn’t hold up because other Bee employees had also used plenty of curse words in their tweets.īreitbart writer Brandon Darby chalked the firing up to something even simpler: Wax “sassed boss publicly.”ĭillon jumped on a Twitter Space (where else?! to defend firing Wax, and argued that Wax did not comport himself online appropriately while identifying as an employee of the Bee. This could perhaps explain why the Bee wasn’t happy with one of its employees publicly cursing at Christina Pushaw. It was revealed in March that DeSantis had paid thousands of dollars to the Bee for “advertising” and “email services” during his 2022 gubernatorial campaign. Wax complied and then went on a screed against the Bee, asserting that he was fired for supporting Trump over DeSantis. “Being accused of things that are false (and criminal) doesn’t work for me,” Wax shot back.ĭillon then officially fired Wax, telling him to take the Babylon Bee out of his Twitter bio.
Dillon replied, “tweeting like this with the Bee in your bio doesn’t work for me.” Seth Dillon, who runs the Babylon Bee and is thus Wax’s boss, apparently took issue with the profanity-laden question. Wax noticed, and tweeted, “Hey what’s your fucking problem?”
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