"If we would've said that Joy Reid, and Michelle Obama, and Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. But now they're coming out and they're saying it for us. They're coming out and they're saying, 'I'm only here because of affirmative action.' Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain-processing power to otherwise be taken seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to be taken somewhat seriously."
"Part 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,"
"My commentary received thoughtful engagement across platforms, support, and virtually no public backlash," Attiah wrote on Substack. "And yet, the Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being 'unacceptable', 'gross misconduct' and of endangering the physical sa"
Karen Attiah was terminated by The Washington Post after posting on Bluesky following the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk and a school shooting in Colorado. Washington Post human resources cited two specific posts as unacceptable, gross misconduct, and as endangering physical safety. Attiah had worked in the Post's Opinions department for 11 years and previously edited Global Opinions from 2016 to 2021. One post criticized cultural absolution for violent white men. Another post paraphrased a 2023 remark attributed to Charlie Kirk about affirmative action and named specific Black women in that context.
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