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It was all fun and games when we were mocking young earth creationists a few years ago for thinking that human beings used to ride around on dinosaurs. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, we have to take these strange quasi-religious beliefs with the utmost seriousness.
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Thanks, I guess I still don’t see how it can both be a “boring statement of fact” but also funny. I’m trying to think of another example of this type of humor and coming up empty.
That's not Twitter's fault. If people are actively looking for confirmation bias, they could just as easily do it elsewhere, like by watching nothing by Fox/MSNBC opinion shows or reading nothing but Gateway Pundit or the liberal equivalent.
The earth has been around for much longer than 9000 years. I'm sure the internet contains examples of jokes aimed at folks who believe otherwise.
I think the point is that none of them consist entirely of the bland, truthful statement "The earth has been around for much longer than 9000 years." At the very least, even if one labeled that a joke, no one would find it funny.
Oh, I think it’s possible to make a joke about trans people but it needs a punchline.
I can imagine a situation where misgendering was harassment but Levine is a public figure, that seems different.
Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy
The sentence about misgendering is in the section on "repeated slurs." I don't know why repetition is required, but as long as it is, if this is the Bee's first offense, it appears not to have run afoul of the rule.
Twitter is my favorite social media-news source by far. Granted I use it 80% for soccer, but it’s great. The experience is dependent on who you follow. If you follow nice people, your feed will be a nice feed.
For the record, my position would be different if this was directed at some random person who was just minding their own business.
It didn’t come up empty to their core reader. Is it different than SNL making satire skits about the R’s for four years? (I don’t have a problem with that either). This is part of the cancel culture I hate, BB is for conservatives.
Yep. It seems like this is a common theme that comes up in our various threads about censorship or moderation or cancel culture or whatever we're calling it. People worry a lot about whether the statement in question is accurate or correct or funny or whatever instead of dealing with the core issue of whether or not the statement in question should be suppressed. If people think that "That's not funny" is a good reason for suppressing a particular belief, they should just say so out loud.
Good example. And it is hilarious because most atheists wouldn't go around claiming there is no god.
My personal opinion on whether the account should have been suspended (or banned or whatever) has nothing to do with whether I think the tweet was funny. It wasn't funny and I wouldn't have suspended the account.
Maybe some people haven't seen the meme/graphic? Can't help but laugh.i thought it was hilarious.
I haven’t seen anyone here actually agree with the suspension. It’s possible I missed one or two but it generally seems that there’s universal agreement on the suspension being heavy-handed which has then mostly moved us to:
Nope. Conservatives are going to lose.
Let's talk in May when Roe is overturned.
No. I've seen people I follow get temp banned for calling them out. This was back in 2017 but he's still calling them out on his newer account.
I think any type of humor should basically be exempt from all kinds of politically correct constraints. There should be a humor exception that gives safe harbor to any honest attempt at edginess even if it happens to cross over the boundary into offensiveness. There's no way to find the limits of tolerability without testing them, and testing those limits properly means occasionally transgressing them. That's okay, all in the service of a good laugh.
Because it's being not excellent and it's mean.
I doubt many follow Babylon Bee. The few articles I've read weren't as clever or funny as the Onion. This seems like one of their better jokes and getting banned has brought them attention. They will probably delete and re-join Twitter when people forget about them.
Thank you for the reply. My thought as to why was the same as you outlined. It wouldn’t be ‘excellent’.
Yup
