WaPo ordered to rehire anti-white radical fired over Charlie Kirk assassination comments

Anti-white agitpropist Karen Attiah appears to have gotten the last laugh with the Washington Post, despite dancing on the grave of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated last September.

A private labor arbitrator, Sarah Miller Espinosa, has ordered Jeff Bezos’ newspaper not only to hire back Attiah but to compensate her with back pay and lost benefits.

‘We cannot tolerate the risk your performance poses to The Post.’

According to the Sept. 11, 2025, termination letter that Attiah shared online, the Washington Post fired Attiah for “gross misconduct.”

“Your comments on social media regarding the death of Charlie Kirk violate The Post’s social media policies, harm the integrity of our organization, and potentially endanger the physical safety of our staff,” said the letter. “Among other requirements, the Company-wide social media policy mandates that all employee social media postings be respectful and prohibits postings that disparage people based on their race, gender or other protected characteristics.”

The paper flagged two posts Attiah made on the liberal X knockoff Bluesky just hours after Charlie Kirk’s death.

In the first, she wrote, “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is…. not the same as violence.” In the second, she wrote, “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.”

Attiah also wrote: “For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on”; and “If anything, the rush to coddle violent white men is self-protective — that we know they are not used to feeling vulnerable and mortal — and will react violently out of fear. And we will all suffer.”

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“The poor judgment exhibited by your public comments regarding Charlie Kirk arise against the backdrop of documented performance concerns, which have been raised with you,” said the Post’s termination letter. “Given these concerns, and in light of your recent unacceptable Bluesky posts, we cannot tolerate the risk your performance poses to The Post.”

When faced with potential consequence over her actions, Attiah masqueraded as a victim.

Attiah claimed in a Substack post that she was fired for “speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.”

After suggesting that she was “being silenced” for doing her job, the agitpropist proceeded to smear Kirk again, accusing the dead father of two of, among other things, attacking black women “as a group” and endangering academics by “putting them on watch lists.”

Attiah, a member of the Washington Post Guild, filed a challenge to her firing and retained the representation of the Democracy Defenders Fund, co-founded by former Obama official Norm Eisen. Eisen and the rest of the legal team claimed in a Sept. 24 letter to the Post that Attiah “spoke truthfully and forcefully about matters of vital public concern, and her performance is worthy of praise — not condemnation — for speaking difficult truths at a challenging time.”

The matter was ultimately decided on Aug. 20 in arbitration.

Espinosa, the arbitrator, stated that the interpretation that Attiah’s posts disparage white men “is unsupported by the actual words, as well as the context, of the Grievant’s posts”; that “the Washington Post failed to establish the Grievant engaged in gross misconduct”; and the paper lacked a good and sufficient cause to fire Attiah.

Eisen said of the order, “The Post tried to pass off retaliation as discipline, but the rule of law has exposed it for what it truly is: wrongful termination. This is a landmark decision for every journalist who refuses to be silenced.”

Attiah said, “This decision confirms what we’ve said from the start: I was doing my job as an opinion journalist, and doing that job is not misconduct.”

A spokesperson for the Post told Blaze News that the paper respects the arbitration process and declines to comment further.

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