A left -wing columnist Karen Attiah said she was fired by the Washington Post for her publications on social networks after the murder of Charlie Kirk and a shooting at school in Colorado.
She revealed in Sustack on Monday that her dismissal occurred after the comments she made in Bluesky.
“To Bluesky, after the horrible shootings in Utah and Colorado, I condemned the acceptance of political violence in the United States and criticized their ritualized responses: the so -called holes and cliché of ‘thoughts and prayers’ and ‘This is not who we are’ that normalize armed and acquittal violence [W]The perpetrators hite especially, while nothing is done to stop the deaths, ”he wrote.
Kirk, a prominent conservative activist, was killed in an event of the Campus in Utah on Wednesday. That same day, a separate shooting in a Colorado school left two students injured and the dead attacker.
Attiah shared screenshots of his Bluesky publications, including one that said: “Part of what keeps the United States so violent is the insistence in which people perform care, empty goodness and acquittal. [W]Hite men who defend hatred and violence. “
“My only direct reference to Kirk was a publication, his own registered words,” he wrote.
In Bluesky, she had published: “‘Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go to steal a [W]Slot of the person Hite Charlie Kirk “.
Reuters reported that Kirk made a comment in July 2023 about “The Charlie Kirk Show” about affirmative action, naming Joy Reid, the judge of the Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson, Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee, instead of speaking widely on all black women as a viral position.
Attiah said he was fired for speaking against political violence, the “double racial standard” and the “empathy of the United States towards weapons.”
“The publication accused my Bluesky positions measured of being” unacceptable “,” serious behavior “and of endangering the physical security of colleagues, charges without evidence, which I completely rejected as false. They rushed to say goodbye without even a conversation. This was not only an excess of hurried life, but a violation of itself of the rules of journalistic justice and rigor and the publication of the publication of the publication of the publication for the publication of the publication for the publication of the publication. 2019, together with a violation of itself, to the owner of the owner of herself, to the owner of the owner of the owner of herself.
She said the newspaper no longer reflected the diverse city to which it serves, and said it was the last black opinion columnist in its list.
“What happened to me is part of a broader purge of black voices from the academy, business, government and media, a historical pattern as dangerous as shameful and tragic,” he wrote.
Attiah joined the position in 2014. A spokesman refused to comment on personnel matters.
The policies and standards of the publication include a section on social networks that indicate: “Post journalists should ensure that their activity on social networks does not make reasonable people question their editorial independence, nor do they make reasonable people question the post capacity to cover problems fairly.”
(Fox News)
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