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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Washington Post columnist says she was fired over posts after Charlie Kirk’s killing

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Karen Attiah speaks on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during an Amnesty International event. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty Images

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah says she has been fired from the newspaper over social media posts about gun control and race in the aftermath of far right commentator Charlie Kirk’s killing.

Attiah, 39, recounted in a Substack post that she had been dropped as a Post columnist after 11 years for “speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns”.

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