Twitter labels and restricts Eric Metaxas tweet about the election: Conservative Christian author and commentator Eric Metaxas would up on the wrong end of Twitter's censorship crusade. Metaxas tweeted: 'FACT: It's not that there is no evidence the election was stolen, but that no court had the guts to HEAR the evidence. They dismissed the cases, NOT the evidence. They refused to look at it, because the price of getting involved was too high. THIS is how evil destroys a republic.' Twitter applied its new, enhanced label to this tweet. The label, which explains how the tweet was restricted as well, said: 'This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can't be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence.' It linked to a Twitter information page titled 'There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 US presidential election, government officials and election experts confirm.' This page includes an unattributed summary of this issue, as well as what Twitter deems to be 'What you need to know' about the issue. It also includes multiple tweets from liberal media Twitter accounts about the major points that Twitter deems important about this issue.
— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) March 29, 2021 (Metaxas has removed the tweet, but below is a screen cap of it) Hat tip to Joemygod for this. I am blocked by Metaxas so I didn’t see it. In May 2020, Metaxas had Kent Heckenlively on his radio show and gave him a 36 minute commercial for the anti-vax movement. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Prominent Christian author Eric Metaxas continues to claim that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. In this photo, Metaxas speaks during the 44th annual March for Life. The Eric Metaxas Show offers compelling perspective on American culture, political life, and stories making news around the corner and across the globe.
Let me just get to the point. Here Eric Metaxas’ most recent contribution to his Christian witness.
Metaxas was reacting to Joe Biden’s comments about conservative African-Americans not being black. Biden’s point was not well stated and he apologized for it today.
The fact that Biden was out of line with his comment is no reason for Metaxas to engage in what has been called by Christian professor Karen Prior the “Twitter equivalent of Blackface.”
Eric, this isn’t funny. This is the Twitter equivalent of Blackface.
— Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) (@KSPrior) May 22, 2020
Anyone following Metaxas over the past three years shouldn’t be too surprised by this. Some prior guests on his show includes Katie Hopkins, (see also this link), Milo Yiannopoulos, and his good friend and opponent of the “hoards” from the third world, Ann Coulter. And of course, there is Metaxas’ undying support for Donald Trump.
Those folks want to keep America (and Britain in the case of Hopkins) white and European. I don’t know what’s in Metaxas’ heart, but I could never give those three a platform, let alone call them friends and heroes.
Metaxas is currently getting dragged on social media for this tweet, and rightly so. However, if tomorrow everything goes back to normal, what will it matter?
Ed Stetzer has weighed in:
Good opportunity here to delete this tweet and put up a short apology.
— Ed Stetzer (@edstetzer) May 22, 2020
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Now Joe Carter:
That anyone would post this type of racist garbage is shocking. That it was done by someone who is still considered a prominent evangelical is inexcusable.
This is also a prime example of where an un-Christian allegiance to political tribalism leads. What an embarrassment. https://t.co/Xg4xwy6UiZ
Eric Metaxas Jesus Was White
— Joe Carter (@joecarter) May 22, 2020
After being ratioed all night long, Metaxas doubled down:
So may we call Biden’s policies “racist”? And those that oppose them “anti-racist”? Or shall we focus on the shiny objects for another fifty years and ignore the crushing reality? https://t.co/ObXeQsGIpW
— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) May 23, 2020
In the most recent Quinnipiac University poll, Joe Biden was favored by 81% of black voters over Donald Trump, who was favored by only 3%. Although it was a dumb and insensitive way of saying it, Biden was not untethered to the facts.
If anyone is failing to deal with reality, it is Metaxas and his supporters. They fail to deal with the fact that there are good reasons for the disparity in the black vote. Principally, what Republicans do is criticize black voters for being captivated by “shiny objects” as if black voters don’t have reasons to favor the Democratic party.
Conservatives will make the most of Biden’s gaffe but exploitation can’t cover the fact that members of GOP fight against expanding voting access. Members of which party support Confederate heroes and symbols and find “very good people” among those who want to see a statue of Robert E. Lee remain in a honored place? Not the Democratic party.
According to a recent poll, black Americans feel that racial division has grown and that Trump is responsible for that that. They strongly disapprove of his performance and hold him responsible for an increase in racism on his watch. There are reasons for these results which Republican leaders simply don’t want to confront.
David Barton (left), Eric Metaxas (right)