A Washington Post columnist said on Sept. 15 that she was terminated by the newspaper over social media posts she made about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Kirk, a conservative commentator, was shot and killed as he spoke at an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
Karen Attiah said in a post on Substack, “Last week, the Washington Post fired me.”
Her post included a photo of her burning what appears to be a copy of the newspaper.
“In the aftermath of the horrific shootings in Utah and Colorado, I condemned America’s acceptance of political violence and criticized its ritualized responses—the hollow, cliched calls for ‘thoughts and prayers’ and ‘this is not who we are’ that normalize gun violence and absolve white perpetrators, especially, while nothing is done to curb deaths,” Attiah wrote….