Karen Attiah, last Black columnist at Washington Post, fired for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, the Trump Administration and their collaborators are prosecuting a widespread crackdown on free expression. Karen Attiah has been a columnist at the Washington Post for 11 years, and was the last remaining Black columnist at the newspaper until last week. She was fired, allegedly for being insufficiently mournful over murdered racist Charlie Kirk, but at this point her firing seems less about what she actually said and more about sending a message: dissent will be punished.
But unlike some people (looking at you, Bezos), she has no intention of backing down or going quietly.
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| 1:07.1 | America feels like it is doing a speed run into full-on crackdowns on free expression in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. |
| 1:14.2 | MSNBC's Matthew Dowd was fired for saying something as basic as hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which lead to hateful actions. |
| 1:22.6 | He told Katie Couric this week that the network admitted his comments were misconstrued, but that they |
| 1:28.1 | still refused to give him his job back. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel called out Maga for |
| 1:33.3 | exploiting Kirk's death, and Disney caved to FCC pressure, firing him, only to whiplash less than a |
| 1:39.6 | week later and announced his show would return this week. Jimmy Kimmel's firing got a lot of attention, and rightly so. |
| 1:46.6 | But we need to make sure that black women, |
| 1:49.1 | who are so often the canary in a coal mine for additional attacks on freedom of expression, |
| 1:53.8 | are not ignored, because after 11 years at the Washington Post, |
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