Tucker Carlson joins Babylon Bee, Charlie Kirk in Twitter jail for Rachel Levine tweets
Fox host 'is not planning to delete anything'
Twitter’s no-tolerance policy on tweets describing Rachel Levine as a man is quickly thinning the herd of leading conservative accounts.
Fox News said Thursday that host Tucker Carlson has no plans to delete a recent post identifying the transgender Biden administration official as male, meaning that his @TuckerCarlson account with 5.3 million followers will remain locked under Twitter’s policy against “hateful conduct.”
“We can confirm to the Washington Times that Tucker is not planning to delete anything,” said a Fox spokesperson in an email.
In doing so, Mr. Carlson joined the Babylon Bee and Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk in putting at risk their popular right-tilting accounts by drawing a line in the sand on the rule against referring to transgender individuals by their biological sex.
Mr. Carlson had posted screenshots Tuesday of the Babylon Bee and Kirk tweets that landed them in Twitter jail. Mr. Kirk’s tweet began “Richard Levine spent 54 years of his life as a man,” while the Bee’s satirical post declared Dr. Levine its “Man of the Year.”
Dr. Levine, a Health and Human Services assistant secretary, reportedly transitioned from male to female in 2011 at age 53.
“We dared to highlight two accounts that Twitter has banned, from Charlie Kirk and the Babylon Bee. There’s nothing hateful about either one,” said Mr. Carlson on his Wednesday night show.
He said that both tweets “merely noted that biological sex is fixed at birth. This has been universally acknowledged by homo sapiens for at least 300,000 years. So it was a factual statement, but on Twitter, as in our public life, truth is no defense.”
Mr. Kirk and the Babylon Bee have refused to delete their Levine tweets. Each of the accounts has more than 1 million followers.
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said that Twitter sent him the following message denying the Bee’s appeal: “Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision.”
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