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Attiah confirmed the dismissal in a Substack essay Monday. The paper called her remards \u201cunacceptable social media posts.\u201d The posts came in the wake of the killing of Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA.<\/p>\n
One of Attiah\u2019s posts on Bluesky read: \u201cPart 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another read: \u201cRefusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is\u2026 not the same as violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u2019s assassination. Attiah confirmed the dismissal in a Substack essay Monday. The paper called her remards \u201cunacceptable social media posts.\u201d The posts came in the wake of the killing of Kirk,…<\/p>\n
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