Karen Attiah Fired from Washington Post

[Anonymous]

Karen Attiah was ostensibly fired from the Post for misquoting a Charlie Kirk remark but I assume the post had been looking for the opportunity to let her go for some time.

Mixed feelings. She was courageous about some topics but also quite hateful towards those who didn’t share her agenda. She can start her own page but I don’t think she’ll ever have as big a platform in the U.S. again.

[Anonymous]

When a journalist misquotes someone so blatantly and refuses to own up to her mistake (if it was a mistake and not intentional) she does not deserve the job as journalist.

[Anonymous]

What did she misquote?

[Anonymous]

She should have advocated for the murder of homeless people. Then she could be a host on Fox.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When a journalist misquotes someone so blatantly and refuses to own up to her mistake (if it was a mistake and not intentional) she does not deserve the job as journalist.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/washington-post-karen-attiah-kirk-00564027


Some of Attiah’s social media posts condemned political violence but also highlighted Kirk’s divisive comments on Black women. In her only post directly mentioning Kirk, she quoted the Turning Point USA founder’s comments that Black women lack “brain processing power.”

“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,” Attiah said.

Here is a recording from Kirk's 2023 statements:

So where is the misquote?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When a journalist misquotes someone so blatantly and refuses to own up to her mistake (if it was a mistake and not intentional) she does not deserve the job as journalist.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/washington-post-karen-attiah-kirk-00564027


Some of Attiah’s social media posts condemned political violence but also highlighted Kirk’s divisive comments on Black women. In her only post directly mentioning Kirk, she quoted the Turning Point USA founder’s comments that Black women lack “brain processing power.”

“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,” Attiah said.

Here is a recording from Kirk's 2023 statements:

So where is the misquote?

Was he speaking about those specific women or Black women in general?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When a journalist misquotes someone so blatantly and refuses to own up to her mistake (if it was a mistake and not intentional) she does not deserve the job as journalist.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/washington-post-karen-attiah-kirk-00564027


Some of Attiah’s social media posts condemned political violence but also highlighted Kirk’s divisive comments on Black women. In her only post directly mentioning Kirk, she quoted the Turning Point USA founder’s comments that Black women lack “brain processing power.”

“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,” Attiah said.

Here is a recording from Kirk's 2023 statements:

So where is the misquote?

Was he speaking about those specific women or Black women in general?

Does it matter? Why are you trying to tease this out. He said what he said. Can you not trust your own ears?

If he’s accusing some of the best and brightest among black woman, who clearly on a different level to most people, black, white, male, female of lacking brain power and stealing slots from white men; I can only imagine what he thinks about black women “in general”

The guy was bad news.

[Anonymous]

Charlie Kirk was a passoniate advocate for free speech for all white people, and no one who says differently should be tolerated in any job, especially one where they speak.

[Anonymous]

Are right-wingers going to start reading the Post after Bezos drives all the sane people away? Who does Bezos think his propaganda is going to influence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charlie Kirk was a passoniate advocate for free speech for all white people, and no one who says differently should be tolerated in any job, especially one where they speak.

Charlie Kirk had a “watchlist” of professors and liberal thinkers who he was intent on silencing. He circulated the list to his rabid, uneducated followers and encouraged violence and harassment against them just for espousing beliefs that were different than his own. These professors and writers were threatened and relentlessly harassed by his henchmen. Charlie Kirk was a hypocrite of the highest degree, and the only free speech he believed in was his own. Anyone who lies about who he was loses all credibility and should lose their job for spreading propaganda and hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charlie Kirk was a passoniate advocate for free speech for all white people, and no one who says differently should be tolerated in any job, especially one where they speak.

lol no. He was passionate about his free speech but not others free speech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are right-wingers going to start reading the Post after Bezos drives all the sane people away? Who does Bezos think his propaganda is going to influence?

Maybe just normal people will start reading it again.

Normal people who think black women lack brain processing power?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are right-wingers going to start reading the Post after Bezos drives all the sane people away? Who does Bezos think his propaganda is going to influence?

Maybe just normal people will start reading it again.

Nah, it's completely unreliable nowadays.

That article where it said that Trump's signature on the Epstein birthday letter was debateable was the final straw for me. I can handle a variety of viewpoints in the editorial pages. I can't handle blatant bullcrap in the news section.

I'm sticking to the FT from now on.

[Anonymous]

WaPo keeps reminding me why I canceled my subscription

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When a journalist misquotes someone so blatantly and refuses to own up to her mistake (if it was a mistake and not intentional) she does not deserve the job as journalist.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/washington-post-karen-attiah-kirk-00564027


Some of Attiah’s social media posts condemned political violence but also highlighted Kirk’s divisive comments on Black women. In her only post directly mentioning Kirk, she quoted the Turning Point USA founder’s comments that Black women lack “brain processing power.”

“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,” Attiah said.

Here is a recording from Kirk's 2023 statements:

So where is the misquote?

Was he speaking about those specific women or Black women in general?

Wow. I had never heard him speak on this issue before but now I understand why people say he was a racist, hateful person.