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Amy Coney Barrett Warns on Charlie Kirk Killing: ‘Political Discourse Has Soured Beyond Control’

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Washington Post columnist says she was fired over her ‘unacceptable’ Charlie Kirk social media posts

‘The Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being ‘unacceptable’, ‘gross misconduct’ and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues — charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false,’ Karen Attiah wrote Monday

“My most widely shared thread was not even about activist Charlie Kirk, who was horribly murdered, but about the political assassinations of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog,” she stated. “I pointed to the familiar pattern of America shrugging off gun deaths, and giving compassion for white men who commit and espouse political violence. This cycle has been documented for years. Nothing I said was new or false or disparaging— it is descriptive, and supported by data.”

Adding that she did her “journalistic duty” to remind people that, at the time, no suspect or motive had been identified in Kirk’s killing, she noted that she had only made one direct reference to the slain conservative influencer in her social media posts. In that instance, she quoted Kirk saying that prominent Black women such as Michelle Obama and Shelia Jackson Lee did not have “the brain processing power to be taken seriously” and needed to “steal a white person’s slot.”

“My commentary received thoughtful engagement across platforms, support, and virtually no public backlash,” Attiah wrote.

“And yet, the Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being ‘unacceptable’, ‘gross misconduct’ and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues — charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false,” she continued. “They rushed to fire me without even a conversation. This was not only a hasty overreach, but a violation of the very standards of journalistic fairness and rigor the Post claims to uphold.”

She reiterated in a subsequent Bluesky post on Monday afternoon that her “posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers,” adding that she was “fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my ‘gross misconduct.’”

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Amy Coney Barrett Warns on Charlie Kirk Killing: ‘Political Discourse Has Soured Beyond Control’

That's funny, because I read today that she is writing her 'Trump can be President for life' opinion long before the case is before the court and fuck the Constitution.

That won't help political discourse if the SCOTUS rubber stamps fascism.

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????

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