The Washington Post has fired opinion columnist Karen Attiah after a series of controversial social media posts she made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Attiah confirmed the dismissal in a Substack essay Monday. The paper called her remards “unacceptable social media posts.” The posts came in the wake of the killing of Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA.
One of Attiah’s posts on Bluesky read: “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.”
Another read: “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.”
