Hey there freedom lovers! The Babylon Bee was reinstated on Twitter a few hours ago after many months of being banned. There's a valuable lesson to be learned from them. So I thought I'd share out loud with you here what I learned and had potently affirmed if you care to consider it. LESSON: Stand by your principles no matter what.
It's easy to stand by our principles when it's easy to do. But it can be tempting to abandon them when staying true to them would carry an inconvenience, it would be hard, uncomfortable, loss of money, backlash, etc. Months ago Twitter told the Babylon Bee that if they just delete the tweet that they don't like, they'll happily reinstate their account. The Babylon Bee said "no," even though that meant they wouldn't be able to reach their mass of followers on the platform and therefore business funnel would have less money flowing to it.
In a personal conversation with the owner of the Babylon Bee, Seth Dillon, I asked him, "Why didn't you just delete the tweet." His answer was simple, "It's more important to stay principled." This made me respect him more. I also believe it made people even bigger raving fans of the Babylon Bee b/c it was them putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to truly standing for what they say they stand for (in this case free speech).
In the end Babylon Bee has been reinstated. But even if this wasn't in the cards, I do believe they would've been better and stronger for staying principled. I think there's a paradox when it comes to deciding to stay principled or to abandon principles when in a tough situation: Abandoning principles will often make things easier or better in the short term, but long term you'll be worse off. While staying true to your principles might make circumstances worse off in the short term, long term you'll always be better off.
So my concluding lesson from the Babylon Bee is: Stay true to my principles, ESPECIALLY when it's hard to do so. 💪
Please comment below with any lessons you've been gifted with watching this situation unfold. I'd love to learn from what you've learned, and I'm guessing other community members would too. 🙂
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