The dismissal of the editor

Washington Post’s editor -in -chief and columnist Karen Attiah said on Monday that she had been dismissed after more than a decade in the newspaper on the comments made since the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk – a dismissal criticized by trade union organizations and freedom of expression of the newspaper.

Attiah allegedly allegedly allegedly, she had been dismissed for having “denounced political violence, double racial standards and American apathy towards weapons”.

“I did my journalistic duty, reminding people that, despite the president (Donald) Trump, the supporter rushes towards the judgment, no suspect or reason had been identified in the murder of Charlie Kirk-exercising a restraint when I condemned hatred and violence,” she wrote.

Pen America, a press freedom group, warned in a statement that layoffs such as the “risk of creating a scary effect” of Attiah.

The Washington Post Guild, which represents the newspaper employees, said in a statement that he “stands with” Attiah and “will continue to support it and defend its rights”.

“The columnist wrongly wrongly, Karen Attiah, on her publications on social networks. The position has not only ignored the standard disciplinary processes in a blatant manner, but he also undermined his own mandate to be a champion of freedom of expression. The right to speak freely is the ultimate personal liberation and the foundation of Karen’s 11 -year career at La Poste.”

The Washington Post, in response to an USA Today investigation, said that it would not discuss personnel issues.

Tuesday, Attiah published on social networks a copy of the letter of dismissal that she said that she had received, which cited a mandate according to which the assignments of the social media of the employees do not “denigrate people according to their race, their gender or other protected characteristics”, specifically citing the distinct articles that she published on Bluesky who was referring to “white men”.

“Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people take care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who marry hatred and violence,” said Attiah in one of the messages.

The letter also referred to “documented performance problems, which have been raised with you”.

Highlighted in front of Kirk Quote

On its substitutes page, Attiah underlined some of its recent publications on social networks after the murder of Kirk. In one, she suggested that “white America will not do what it should do to get rid of the country’s firearms”.

Attiah also posted an older quote on X that she attributed to Kirk who said: “Black women do not have the power to treat the brain to take seriously. You must go and steal the slot machine from a white person.”

Maga activists criticized Attiah and others to Kirk wrongly and take the comments Excluding context. Kirk did not discuss black women in general, but referred to four specific women: the judge of the Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson; Former First Lady Michelle Obama; The joyful of the joyful Reid; And Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas MP who has died since. His suggestion was that by admitting that they had benefited from a positive action, they essentially admitted that they could not reach their posts by merit.

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Father of two children and Christian curator, Kirk was a hero for many Trump Republicans for his ardent warnings about the dangers of Democrats and the ability to organize young voters. But Kirk was also a provocateur and a supporter of Trump’s attempt to overthrow his electoral loss in 2020, who left a long record of partisan jokes which rapped a lot on the left.

He suggested once he would be nervous aboard an airplane if he saw a black pilot and, with his right -wing activist compatriot Christopher Rofo, often suggested that people of color in very publicized positions were the beneficiaries of “Dei”, the acronym, equity and inclusion. Some business ethics professionals have declared that the use of the term as an epithet can be damaging, because it dehumanizes individuals and implies that all the other hired people are necessarily qualified.

Attiah said she was attached to freedom of expression and stressed that this can have serious consequences, pointing her time as an editor when Jamal Khashoggi contributed as a columnist. Khashoggi, who had written several columns after the Saudi regime, was murdered in Türkiye in 2018 in what a United Nations investigation concluded a planned murder from Saudi Arabia.

Vance, others encourage the campaign

Attiah is part of a number of professionals from all industries, including Canadians, who were dismissed or censorship following Kirk’s ball death on September 10.

Kirk’s friends in the Trump administration and the Maga movement excorored last week, those who criticize the past comments of the USA leader turning point, even if they celebrated his commitment to freedom of expression.

Look at the Kirk show, Vance aims for “left” groups:

The murder of Charlie Kirk causes large threats from the Trump administration

US President Donald Trump threatened investigations into the radical left left ”, after Charlie Kirk.V’s ball death, Ice President JD Vance on the Kirk podcast encouraged people to hand over those who celebrated the murder of the conservative commentator.

Vice-president JD Vance called on Monday the public to inform anyone who said unpleasant things about the assassination of her friend and her political ally.

“When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them,” said the listeners about the podcast of the militant killed on Monday. “And hell, call their employer.”

Vance in the past has been a critic of the conservative “cancellation culture” and defended a young government assistant accused of having made racist comments this year.

By referring to the concerns of freedom of expression, Vance said: “You have the madmen on the far left which say:” Oh, (manager of the White House) Stephen Miller and JD Vance, they will take care of the discourse protected by the Constitution. “”

But he added: “No, no, no! We are going to go after the NGO network that foment, facilitates and engages in violence” – a reference to non -governmental organizations.

Adam Goldstein, of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told the Associated Press that “the government’s participation in this area is closer to what resembles McCarthysm”, referring to the 1950s campaign to eliminate the Communists who led to false allegations and ruined the careers.

Media figures, targeted teachers

Last week, MSNBC said that the contributor Matthew Dowd was no longer with the wired information network after commenting live television on Kirk shooting day that “hateful words” can lead to “hateful actions”. The president of MSNBC, Rebecca Kutler, described comments as “inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable”.

Dowd apologized later for his remarks, and the former republican assistant of the administration of George W. Bush underlined that he had made the comments a few minutes after he was learned that there was a shooting at a event hosted by Kirk, but before he only knew Kirk was the target.

Progressive podcast host Wajahat Ali was one of those who emphasize what they say was a double standard last week. Fox News host Jesse Watters has made no consequences to suggest the need to “avenge Charlie’s death”, he noted, while Brian Kilmeade, also of Fox News, suggested that some homeless people with mental illness should be subjected to an involuntary or even killed injection-a comment made upon the hand-stabbed death. (Kilmead has apologized since.)

Democratic leaders managed to condemn the murder of Kirk and stressed that the Republicans, including the Senator of Utah, Mike Lee, seemed to make fun of the June murders of the Minnesota State legislator, Melissa Hortman and her husband.

In addition, Donald Trump Jr. and others seemed to celebrate the husband’s beat in 2022 of the former lecturer of the Chamber, Nancy Pelosi, in their home in San Francisco, with the son of the president and others without founding the attacker and Paul Pelosi had a personal relationship. The striker born in Canada then testified in court that his motivations were focused on government and Democratic officials like Nancy Pelosi.

In the wake of Kirk’s death, the consequences have extended beyond experts and media figures.

States controlled by Republicans such as Florida, Oklahoma and Texas have launched surveys on teachers and even students accused of inappropriate statements. The American army, in an unusual request, invited members of the public to point out those who “celebrate or make fun” of the murder of Kirk, including those who have never served in the army.

“According to Kirk, empathy is an unscathed term from the new age, so keep the jokes to come. This is what he wanted,” read an article on X that Melvin Villaver Jr., a music teacher from the University of Clemson, republished the day of the murder.

Some targeted people have been victims of an erroneous identity.

A school district of Rural Elkhorn, Wisconsin, said that he had received more than 800 messages after a conservative influencer has mistakenly identified an associate director in a local primary school as celebrating the death of Kirk.