A prominent Black journalist was fired by The Washington Post over posts she wrote following Charlie Kirk’s murder on Sept. 10.
Karen Attiah was let go from her job as an opinion editor at The Washington Post over a series of posts she wrote that were deemed “unacceptable” in the wake of the conservative activist’s assassination in Utah.
In one post, Attiah wrote, “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.”
In another post, on social media platform Bluesky, Attiah wrote: “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is… not the same as violence.”
After she was fired, Attiah took to social media app Bluesky and wrote, “The Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being ‘unacceptable,’ ‘gross misconduct’ and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues — charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false.”
She continued: “They rushed to fire me without even a conversation. This was not only a hasty overreach, but a violation of the very standards of journalistic fairness and rigor the Post claims to uphold.”
More than 1,000 people were fired from corporations and organizations after they publicly celebrated Kirk’s murder.
A prominent surgeon was terminated from his job at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine on Saturday after he cheered Kirk’s murder.
Meanwhile, Kirk’s killer, Tyler Robinson, 22, refused to cooperate with investigators following his arrest on Thursday, Sept. 11.
The FBI found DNA linking him to the crime scene and a note he wrote claiming he would “take out” the podcaster.
Robinson faces the death penalty if convicted.
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