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Posted on 08/24/2026 9:12:17 AM PDT by DFG
An arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah, the opinion columnist who was fired last September after she blasted Charlie Kirk as “a white man that espoused violence” the day of his brutal assassination.
In a written decision Thursday, arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa said WaPo “did not have good and sufficient cause” to fire the scribe and “violated” its labor agreement with the controversial columnist.
Espinosa ordered the legacy newspaper to compensate Attiah with back pay and lost benefits.
“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,” Attiah told The Post in a statement, adding that she is “relieved to finally have that record set straight.”
She added that she hopes her win “sends a message to journalists and media institutions everywhere that freedom of expression is always worth fighting for.”
A spokesperson for the Washington Post said the company respects the arbitration process and declined to comment further.
The decision – which is binding, according to WaPo’s labor agreement – caps off a yearlong battle after Attiah argued a slew of controversial social media posts she fired off the day of Kirk’s shocking killing did not violate company policy.
On Sept. 10, 2025, Attiah wrote in a Bluesky post: “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men that espouse hatred and violence.”
In another post that day, 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.”
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Well, they always need someone to clean toilets and take out the trash. (until they can her for something else)
Liar!
I loath the Washington Post. However, they were correct to fire the black racist.
Hire her back and put her in obits.
Just a guess but I’ll bet the WP side took a dive during the arbitration.
Is ‘at will employment’ now dead? I dont think so and the Post should appeal this ridiculous ruling.
If she's going to pretend she's a columnist, she can at least libel Charlie Kirk in proper English as 'a white man who espoused violence' not 'a white man that espoused violence'.
BLACK Privilege.....PERIOD! Disgusting RACIST.
I suppose the argument would be that the Post lies with such regularity and inverts reality (as in this case) so frequently that singling out someone for doing the same makes no sense.
The real problem is with the agreement that allows an arbitrator to make personnel and ultimately editorial decisions.
Almost certianly.
Did anyone,
anywhere,
ever
believe this “Arbitrator” would turn out any other way?
You are assuming the Post does not want to bring him back. I think that is wrong.
This should take away the appetite for.the hiring of black women.
Attiah is a bigot.
But then the WP caved by going to an arbitrator.
Yet Hasan Piker can call for the deaths of American Jews in the US who support Israel’s right to exist and CRICKETS
The Woke Washington BLEEP, whose video service is required for NBA, WNBA, NFL, and NASCAR, gets busted.
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