Karen Attiah: “The Washington Post Fired Me”
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Former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah this morning on Bluesky: “I’ve been fired from the Washington Po

She made only one direct reference to Kirk, quoting his own words:

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. - Charlie Kirk

  • athatet@lemmy.zip
    28·
    23 hours ago

    Okay so what is the context then? Every time I’ve seen one of his quotes with context it just makes it worse.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      10·
      22 hours ago

      Kirk said, “If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us. They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ We know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”

      • Hobo@lemmy.world
        12·
        21 hours ago

        So it’s worse? Also was he implying that Barack Obama should’ve married a white dude? Cause that’s kind of hilarious.

        • OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
          11·
          17 hours ago

          THEY said they only got there because of affirmative action. I assume Michelle Obama meant that her husband wouldn’t have been elected if not for affirmative action as well, which i disagree with.

          • FarmTaco@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 hours ago

            sounds like he is just saying other people is saying it so he can be racist and blame “they”

            • OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 hour ago

              Yeah maybe. I assumed he said it because he took issue with the concept of affirmative action in general and wanted to talk about that.

    • OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 hours ago

      Those specific women said that they wouldn’t have got where they are without affirmative action. He interpreted that to mean that they were admitting to being lesser qualified.