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Forcing the Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah is a victory for unions, not free speech

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25.08.2026

There’s nothing a union loves more than an incompetent worker. 

The New York Times informs us that a private arbitrator sided with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild and ordered the Washington Post to rehire opinion columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired last year over her social media posts about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Reading the New York Times, a reader might come away with the impression that Attiah was dismissed for being overly critical of Kirk. (Maybe the New York Times reporter needs to be fired?) No, Attiah was let go over racist posts aimed at “white men” and, among other things, maliciously miscasting a Kirk statement regarding affirmative action to make it sound as if he was calling black women stupid.

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken........

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