Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

Karen Attiah, an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, said she was fired last week after posting on social media about gun violence and “racial double standards” following the assassination of the right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.

In a post on Substack announcing her firing, Ms. Attiah cited several social media posts made in the wake of Mr. Kirk’s death that expressed antipathy toward political violence and frustration with the lack of effort to curb gun violence. In one post, she criticized inaction from “white America,” which she said “is not going to do what it needs to do to get rid of guns in their country.”

She wrote that The Post said her social media posts were “unacceptable,” “gross misconduct” and endangered “the physical safety of colleagues,” charges she rejects.