It appears the Washington Post has some integrity for kicking her to the curb. The Washington Post has fired columnist Karen Attiah after she made several posts on race and gun violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death. She also added words to Kirk’s previous quotes in his show, which depicted him as a racist. Charlie, on his show in 2023, stated, “You do not have the brain processing power.” However, Attiah wrote, “Black women do not have the processing power.” JUST IN: The Washington Post has fired race hustler Karen Attiah. pic.twitter.com/lPKOfHFR8M — Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) September 15, 2025 Fox News reported more details on Attiah’s classless remarks: A left-wing columnist revealed in a Substack on Monday that she was fired by the Washington Post over social media posts amid the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Colorado school shooting. “On Bluesky, in the aftermath of the horrific shootings in Utah and Colorado, I condemned America’s acceptance of political violence and criticized its ritualized responses — the hollow, cliched calls for ‘thoughts and prayers’ and ‘this is not who we are’ that normalize gun violence and absolve [W]hite perpetrators especially, while nothing is done to curb deaths,” Karen Attiah wrote. Kirk, a leading conservative activist, was assassinated at a campus event in Utah on Wednesday. That same day, a separate shooting at a Colorado school left two students injured and the assailant dead. Attiah included multiple screenshots of her posts on Bluesky, including one that read, “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for [W]hite men who espouse hatred and violence.” “My only direct reference to Kirk was one post— his own words on record,” Attiah wrote on Substack. In a post to her Bluesky account, Attiah wrote, “‘Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a [W]hite person’s slot’- Charlie Kirk.” Attiah appeared to reference a July 2023 remark made by Kirk during “The Charlie Kirk Show” about affirmative action in which he named Joy Reid, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee, according to Reuters, rather than speaking broadly about all Black women, as one viral X post suggested. So Karen Attiah says she quoted Charlie Kirk’s own words. She did not. She said “you do not” — speaking of specific women — and Karen dishonestly changed it to “black women do not.” She deserved to be fired, entirely, and without any question.pic.twitter.com/KeWDwbDykw pic.twitter.com/bqG7th5h5t — Pudge (@pudgenet) September 15, 2025 Attiah isn’t the only left-wing figure getting fired over distasteful remarks following Kirk’s death. The Guardian reported MSNBC also fired one of their political analysts: MSNBC fired its senior political analyst Matthew Dowd after he suggested on air that the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s own radical rhetoric may have contributed to the shooting that killed him. During his appearance on Katy Tur Reports, Dowd suggested that Kirk’s rhetoric may have contributed to the violence that claimed his life. Kirk, 31, had a history of rightwing provocation and Christian nationalism, and frequently espoused bigoted rhetoric about Islam, women , LGBTQ+ communities and people of color. “Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions,” Dowd said, adding: “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place.” Dowd also speculated about the circumstances of the shooting, saying: “We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration. So we have no idea about this.” The network issued an apology and announced Dowd’s dismissal, which came shortly after Kirk was shot dead during a question-and-answer session at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, where he was kicking off a nationwide campus debate tour. MSNBC’s president, Rebecca Kutler, described Dowd’s comments as “inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable” in a statement posted to social media. “We apologize for his statements, as has he,” Kutler wrote. “There is no place for violence in America, political or otherwise.” RELATED REPORT: Website Goes Live Tracking 50,000+ Hateful Posts (and Employers) About Charlie Kirk After His Death This is going to be very controversial... And I am even a bit conflicted on it, so allow me to simply report what is going on and then I'll give you my current stream-of-consciousness thoughts as of right now. A website has gone live called CharliesMurderers.com which claims to track and document all hateful and politically-violent comments about Charlie Kirk after his murder. It has already gathered over 50,000 submissions and is growing very fast. See it here:  https://www.charliesmurderers.com The homepage begins with this: The website is apparently tied to this X account: The About page of the website makes clear this is not a doxxing website, but rather a "lawful data aggregator or publicly-available information." This is not a doxxing website. This website is a lawful data aggregator of publicly-available information. It has been created for the purposes of public education. We seek to collect and archive instances of individuals promoting or glorifying of political violence, much like archive.org or archive.is. We firmly denounce all political violence and criminal activity. This website is being converted into a mass searchable database of over 20,000 entries. Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie Kirk’s family. I do think that's a very important distinction. I will never support doxxing.  If someone is private and does not voluntarily put their identity online, that privacy should not be violated.  Especially in today's world, where you can be assassinated in the neck because someone disagrees with you, doxxing can be fatal. But that's not what this website does. It doesn't expose people who tried to remain private, it simply posts and documents people who willingly posted vile, hateful comments about Charlie Kirk online. If you want to post hate like that, it does seem to me only fair that you don't get to try and run away from it later on.  The Internet is written in ink. One exception I would highlight though, is that it does seem like some submissions are screenshots of private DMs or private text messages and I don't support those being made public without the other person's consent. Now to address the Free Speech question, because I can already hear it. "But what about Free Speech, Noah?  I thought you supported the Constitution and the 1st Amendment!  Hypocrite!  You support these people getting fired from their jobs because of something they said?  What happened to Free Speech?" I do support Free Speech, probably more-so than most anyone you know. And this is not in any way limiting Free Speech. All 50,000 of these people have the right to say these things and post them online. But....Free Speech does NOT protect you against all consequences. If I go to my boss at work and I say "Hey boss, I just wanted to tell you you have a big old fat, ugly face that makes me want to barf every time I see it and I wish you would get shot in the neck!" -- I probably would be fired from that job instantly. I don't get to claim "Free Speech" protects my job! No it doesn't. It protects you from the Government throwing you in prison over words. Furthermore, while I think Free Speech should be absolute, our Supreme Court has ruled it's not, and there are exceptions even to the First Amendment where you do not get a blank check to say anything and everything you want.  There are limits.  And there are consequences. So there you go! Interested to know what you think....do you support this website?