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Mon Oct 25, 2021, 11:29 PM Oct 2021

GOP lawmakers attack Twitter for suspending congressman who broke hate speech rules [View all]

I am glad that this bigot was suspended




Republicans in Congress are outraged at Twitter after the social media website suspended Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) for violating the site's rules against hate speech.

Banks intentionally misgendered Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking openly transgender official in U.S. history. Levine is a highly respected public health expert who served as Pennsylvania's physician general from 2015 to 2018 and as the state's secretary of health from 2018 to 2021.

Last Tuesday, Banks posted a tweet mocking the news that Levine had been sworn in as a four-state admiral for the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

"The title of first female four-star office gets taken by a man," Banks wrote.
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