BY MATT MARGOLIS | PJ MEDIA
Photo by: Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP
The official Twitter account of Congressman Jim Banks
(R-Ind.) was suspended for tweeting, “The title of first female four-star
officer gets taken by a man” in reference to Rachel Levine, Biden’s assistant
secretary for Health & Human Services (HHS), being sworn in as a four-star
admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps earlier this week.
When Biden promoted Levine, the administration called him the “first-ever female four-star
admiral,” effectively robbing a real woman from ever holding that title.
“My tweet was a statement of fact. Big Tech doesn’t have
to agree with me, but they shouldn’t cancel me,” Banks said in a
statement posted
to Instagram. “If they silence me, they will silence you. We can’t
allow Big Tech to prevent us from telling the truth.”
Twitter similarly suspended me earlier this week for pointing out the same
biological fact as Congressman Banks.
Banks, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee
(RSC), also called on Republicans to “restore honesty to our public forums and
hold Big Tech accountable” if they win back control of Congress next year.
For the time being, Banks is posting to his personal
Twitter account.
“Twitter has suspended my official account for posting a
statement of FACT. I won’t back down.”
Twitter similarly flagged a tweet by Rep. Marjorie Taylor
Greene for violating their hateful conduct policy, which “determined that it may
be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”
“A dude who lived the first 50 years of his life as a man
isn’t the first female anything. China is laughing at us,” Greene tweeted.
Indeed they are.
