Karen Attiah, who has been a columnist at the far-left Washington Post for eleven years , says she was fired over the weekend for — in her words — “Speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.”
Then she says this is really why: “[T]he Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being ‘unacceptable,’ ‘gross misconduct,’ and of endangering the physical safety of my colleagues … which I reject as completely false.”
Yeah, I’m going to go out on a limb and say I think she was fired for this series of posts, including a fake quote, that justified the public execution of a 31-year-old father and husband guilty of nothing more than wanting to debate:
Those all came from Attiah’s verified Bluesky account, and the last post, the one about “