Writing Monday morning at her Substack, far-left race hustler Karen Attiah revealed she had been fired from The Washington Post as Global Opinions Editor for a series of ghoulish posts on the far-left hellscape BlueSky in which she downplayed Wednesday’s assassination of Charlie Kirk as part of America’s violent past and falsely claimed he denigrated black women as criminals.
“Last week, the Washington Post fired me. The reason? Speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns,” she declared above a photo of herself in front of The Post headquarters dressed like the Statue of Liberty with the caption “Democracy Dies in Darkness, but some of us will still carry on the light.”
The post in question? Here it was:
As our friend Greg Price and others have pointed out, that’s not what he actually said. Think of Kirk’s quote as more of a mocking tone toward liberal African-American women who openly declare they are proud byproducts of DEI:
Her Substack was coated with the kind of arrogance that defines the national press, bragging she’s “believed in using the pen to remember the forgotten, question power, shine light in darkness, and defend democracy” with her job “not just about writing the world as it is, but as it should be” and fostering “courageous, diverse voices” that led to a slew of awards.
Find someone who loves you as much as Attiah loves herself: “As a columnist, I used my voice to defend freedom and democracy, challenge power and reflect on culture and politics with honesty and conviction. Now, I am the one being silenced - for doing my job.”
But sure enough, she showed her cards by posting the post above as well as other vile takes she insisted were “express[ing] sadness and fear for America.”
In one, she said America “accepts white children being massacred by gun violence” and “not just accepts, but worships violence.”
In another, she wrote: “Political violence has no place in this country…But we will also do nothing to curb the availability of the guns used to carry out said violence…America is sick and there is no cure in sight.”
Attiah further showed her black supremacist character: “Because America, especially white America is not going to do what it needs to do to get rid of guns in their country. It will be thoughts and prayers, ‘violence has no place’ out of a performance of goodness, not out of the resolve to convince their communities to disarm.”
As for her false claim about Kirk, she fawned over herself as having done “my journalistic duty” while smearing Kirk himself:
My journalistic and moral values for balance compelled me to condemn violence and murder without engaging in excessive, false mourning for a man who routinely attacked Black women as a group, put academics in danger by putting them on watch lists, claimed falsely that Black people were better off in the era of Jim Crow, said that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake, and favorably reviewed a book that called liberals “Unhumans”. In a since-deleted post, a user accused me of supporting violence and fascism. I made clear that not performing over-the-top grief for white men who espouse violence was not the same as endorsing violence against them.
She whined The Post said her “measured Bluesky posts” were “‘unacceptable’, ‘gross misconduct,’ and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues — charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false.”
“They rushed to fire me without even a conversation—claiming disparagement on race. This was not only a hasty overreach, but a violation of the very standards of journalistic fairness and rigor the Post claims to uphold,” she huffed.
She later concluded with another rallying cry about her supposed greatness: “I have been canceled by Columbia. I have now been canceled by the Washington Post. Institutions may cancel me, but my pen and my teaching will not be silenced. If anything, my voice will be sharper now. Forward ever, backward never. As always, we move!”
Unsurprisingly, the NewsBusters archives reveal a fun set of entries. In 2022 alone, she said MSNBC letting Tiffany Cross go was proof black people are “still disposable” and separately that Queen Elizabeth II was an ugly symbol of “white Christian supremacy.”
Those examples don’t even include Attiah’s vehement hatred for Israel and support for Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
Attiah was also clearly on the way out. Along with seemingly being one of the only remaining big-name Post employees who haven’t decamped to The Atlantic (or The New York Times), she expressed disgust last month with The Post for allowing U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro publish an op-ed.
