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一名仲裁员已下令《华盛顿邮报》复职一名黑人评论员，该记者因在社交媒体上发表关于白人男性暴力行为的帖子而被解雇，此事缘于去年查理·柯克遇刺事件。
周四的裁决称，该报社没有足够理由解雇凯伦·阿蒂亚。事发时，阿蒂亚是该报刊评论部最后一名全职黑人员工。仲裁员萨拉·米勒·埃斯皮诺萨同时责令《华盛顿邮报》向阿蒂亚支付全额欠薪及受损福利。
柯克从一名青少年保守派校园活动人士起家，后来成为知名播客主、特朗普总统的盟友，于9月10日在犹他谷大学公开活动期间遭枪击身亡，年仅31岁。
泰勒·罗宾逊被控多项罪名，包括加重谋杀罪，目前尚未认罪。这名23岁的被告在枪击案发次日自首。
柯克于2012年创立“转折点美国”组织，曾就种族、性别与政治发表过诸多煽动性言论。他在大学校园里批评“黑人的命也是命”运动，还称乔治·弗洛伊德——这位2020年被明尼阿波利斯警方杀害的黑人男子引发了大规模抗议——是个“人渣”。
他的去世引发了铺天盖地的正反两面评论，而一些在案发后公开批评他的人随后面临工作单位的处罚甚至解雇。
阿蒂亚在柯克遇刺后发表的帖子
柯克遇刺后，时任《华盛顿邮报》全球评论版创始主编、该报唯一一名黑人女性评论员的阿蒂亚在其Bluesky账号上发布了多条帖子。
其中一条写道：“拒绝撕毁衣服、往脸上抹灰来为一个宣扬暴力的白人男子做表演式哀悼……这和暴力不是一回事。”
另一条帖子写道：“如果说有什么不同的话，那就是急于纵容暴力白人男性其实是自我保护——我们知道他们不习惯感受到脆弱和必死的恐惧，会因恐惧而暴力反击。而我们所有人都会遭殃。”
9月11日，阿蒂亚收到了解雇邮件，邮件指责她存在“严重不当行为”。
“你在社交媒体上就查理·柯克之死发表的公开评论违反了《华盛顿邮报》的社交媒体政策，损害了我们机构的声誉，还可能威胁到我们员工的人身安全，”邮件写道。
![2019年7月9日，凯伦·阿蒂亚在伦敦由大赦国际组织的活动上就沙特记者贾马尔·哈苏吉遇刺事件发表讲话。ISABEL INFANTES/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄]
但埃斯皮诺萨发现，报社在6月4日的听证会上未能证明阿蒂亚“存在严重不当行为”，且《华盛顿邮报》“没有正当且充分的理由解雇”她，这一行为违反了该报与工会签订的集体谈判协议。
“去年我被错误解雇后，一名独立仲裁员已下令《华盛顿邮报》立即复职，并支付欠薪，”阿蒂亚周一在Instagram上发帖称。“这场斗争持续了一年，但这是所有新闻工作者的胜利。更多细节即将公布。”
该裁决被称为具有里程碑意义的时刻
为阿蒂亚提供代理服务的“民主捍卫者基金”与华盛顿-巴尔的摩新闻工会共同表示，此次裁决是新闻自由领域的里程碑时刻，“证实了企业媒体机构不能通过报复性惩戒来压制那些发表令人不安真相的记者”。
《华盛顿邮报》在给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一份声明中表示，尊重仲裁程序，但拒绝就此事进一步置评。
事发当时，阿蒂亚被解雇是全美多个行业因针对柯克遇刺事件发表评论而遭到解雇的数十起案例之一，此事引发了关于第一修正案权利的辩论，特朗普曾誓言要对他认为带有贬低性质的言论进行报复。
美国全国黑人记者协会——该国规模最大的少数族裔新闻从业者专业维权组织——补充称，阿蒂亚被解雇“为媒体领域黑人声音的衰落敲响了警钟”。
其他因评论柯克遇刺事件被解雇的员工
去年这位保守派评论员遇刺后，多家企业和机构因员工公开评论柯克而将其解雇。
聚焦亚利桑那州的在线体育新闻网站PHNX Sports宣布解雇记者杰拉尔德·布尔盖特，此前他在社交媒体上发布了一条现已删除的帖子，称“拒绝为投身那种事业的人哀悼，这和庆祝枪支暴力不是一回事”。
“我真的不在乎你们会不会觉得，拒绝尊重一个死于邪恶之手的人是麻木不仁或不合时宜的，”他补充道。
美国微软全国广播公司（MSNBC）表示已终止与分析师马修·多德的合作，此前他在一档直播访谈中称柯克曾煽动煽动性言论，且“仇恨思想催生仇恨言论，进而催生仇恨行为”。康卡斯特公司在一份公开声明中指责多德“就这一可怕事件发表了不可接受且麻木不仁的言论”。
其他机构也对公开评论柯克的员工采取了行动。田纳西州立大学在一份声明中称，已解雇一名员工，原因是其“在社交媒体上就查理·柯克遭遇的可怕且悲惨的谋杀发表了不当且冷酷的评论”。
纳斯达克在X平台上发布的一份声明中表示，已解雇一名员工，因其在社交媒体上发布的与柯克遇刺相关的帖子被该证券交易所认定为“明显违反了我们的政策”。
美国特勤局在一则Facebook帖子中称，已将一名被指对柯克发表负面看法的特工停职。“美国特勤局绝不允许违反我们行为准则的行为。该员工已立即被安排行政休假，调查已启动，”美国特勤局的一名发言人在一份声明中说道。
Washington Post ordered to reinstate Karen Attiah, opinion writer who was fired after posts about Charlie Kirk killing
2026-08-24T12:34:00-0400 / CBS News
An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate a Black opinion writer fired over social media posts about violent White men following last year’s killing of Charlie Kirk.
The ruling Thursday said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was the last Black full-time member of the Post’s opinion desk. The arbitrator, Sarah Miller Espinosa, also ordered the Post to award Attiah full back pay and lost benefits.
Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to become a top podcaster and ally of President Trump, was shot and killed Sept. 10 during a public appearance at Utah Valley University. He was 31.
Tyler Robinson is charged with crimes including aggravated murder and has not yet entered a plea. The 23-year-old defendant turned himself in a day after the shooting.
Kirk launched Turning Point USA in 2012 and made provocative statements about race, gender and politics. He was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement on college campuses and called George Floyd, the Black man whose 2020 murder at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked protests, a “scumbag.”
His death elicited a torrent of comments about him, both pro and con, and some who spoke out against him in the days after the killing faced sanctions or dismissal at work.
Attiah posted after Kirk’s killing
After Kirk’s killing, Attiah, the founding global opinion editor for the Post and the newspaper’s only Black female opinion writer, made several posts to her Bluesky account.
One post read: “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.”
“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,” read another post.
Attiah was emailed a termination letter on Sept. 11, accusing her of “gross misconduct.”
“Your public 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,” the letter read.
Washington Post global opinions editor Karen Attiah speaks on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during an Amnesty International-organized event in London on July 9, 2019. ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images
But Espinosa found that the newspaper, in a June 4 hearing, failed to establish that Attiah “engaged in gross misconduct” and that the Post “did not have good and sufficient cause to terminate” her employment, which violated the collective bargaining agreement with the newspaper’s union.
“After wrongfully firing me last year, an independent arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate me immediately, with back pay,” Attiah posted on Instagram on Monday. “It’s been a year-long fight, but this is a victory for journalists everywhere. More to come soon.”
Ruling welcomed as a landmark moment
The Democracy Defenders Fund, which, along with Washington-Baltimore News Guild, represented Attiah, said the ruling marks a landmark moment for press freedom, “confirming that corporate media institutions cannot use retaliatory discipline to silence journalists who address uncomfortable truths.”
The Post said in a statement to CBS News that it respects the arbitration process, but declined further comment on the matter.
At the time, Attiah’s firing was among dozens of others across various professions stemming from comments about Kirk’s assassination, igniting a debate over First Amendment rights as Mr. Trump vowed retribution for remarks he considers disparaging.
The National Association of Black Journalists, the nation’s largest professional advocacy organization for journalists of color, added that Attiah’s firing had “raised an alarm about the erosion of Black voices across the media.”
Other workers fired for comments about Kirk’s murder
Several businesses and other organizations fired employees because of their public remarks about Kirk after the conservative commentator was killed last year.
PHNX Sports, an online sports news site focused on Arizona, announced the firing of reporter Gerald Bourguet after he said on social media, in a since-deleted post, that “Refusing to mourn a life devoted to that cause is not the same thing as celebrating gun violence.”
“Truly don’t care if you think it’s insensitive or poor timing to decline to respect an evil man who died,” he added.
MSNBC said it cut ties with analyst Matthew Dowd after he said in an on-air conversation that Kirk had pushed incendiary speech and that “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.” In a public statement, Comcast accused Dowd of making “an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event.”
Other organizations also took action against workers who spoke out about Kirk. Middle Tennessee State University said in a statement that it had fired a university employee over “inappropriate and callous comments on social media concerning the horrific and tragic murder of Charlie Kirk.”
Nasdaq, in a statement posted on X, said it dismissed an employee over social media posts related to Kirk’s shooting that the stock exchange said “were a clear violation of our policy.”
In a Facebook post, the U.S. Secret Service said it placed an agent who it said expressed negative opinions about Kirk on leave. “The U.S. Secret Service will not tolerate behavior that violates our code of conduct. This employee was immediately put on administrative leave, and an investigation has begun,” a U.S. Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement.
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