Weltschmerz à Gogo<p>SPLC has uncovered the legal names of various pseudonymous authors for the right-wing "satirical" news website The Babylon Bee and the closely related site Not the Bee, as well as info about former owner Seth Dillon's other business ventures, all uniformly shady.</p><p>One of those authors is an English professor at Master's University, a Christian school in Santa Clarita, CA. Another is a high school teacher in Greentown, IN. Yet another is a fitness instructor in Arlington, VA.</p><p>The common threads here are, unsurprisingly, transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment, with a shot of "great replacement" conspiracy theorizing for good measure -- all in the name of Christian goodness. Go figure...</p><p><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/11/19/inside-beehive" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">1/19/inside-beehive</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheBabylonBee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBabylonBee</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NotTheBee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotTheBee</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatReplacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatReplacement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Satire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristianFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SPLC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SPLC</span></a></p>