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Washington Publish opinion columnist Karen Attiah raised eyebrows on social media Tuesday when she argued that “many won’t survive” except there’s a shift within the nation’s cultural and political programs.
In a prolonged thread on She then warned “marginalized communities” and minorities to “disengage” from US establishments and programs and switch to “self-preservation,” arguing that it’s clear they “won’t save us.”
“These of us who’re minorities or from marginalized communities – I hope the previous few months have introduced some readability. Our governments won’t save us. Our establishments won’t save us. Folks of coloration in excessive locations won’t save us. Solely we will save ourselves.
Washington Publish columnist Karen Attiah. (Left: (Photograph by ERIC BARADAT/AFP by way of Getty Pictures) Proper: (Photograph by Julia Reinhart/Getty Pictures))
Attiah pointed to the College of Southern California’s (USC) choice to cancel a Muslim valedictorian’s speech on the college’s commencement ceremony after a sequence of anti-Israel social media posts she allegedly made had been found.
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“The silence, censorship, racism and hypocrisy over the assault, famine and depopulation of Palestinians in Gaza are revealing,” Attiah wrote. “For many years we had been informed ‘by no means once more’ about genocide and mass atrocities. The Holocaust. Rwanda. Bosnia. Darfur. We had been taught to acknowledge the warning indicators: dehumanizing rhetoric, violence, compelled depopulation, and the destruction of tradition. We had been informed to talk out and take motion.”
The college’s choice, Attiah claimed, “reveals that the credibility/legitimacy of many liberal establishments in Gaza has collapsed.”
USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum will not communicate on the college’s graduation ceremony after anti-Israel posts resurfaced on social media. (X/Screenshot/Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Instances by way of Getty Pictures)
“Western journalistic objectivity died in Gaza. True tutorial freedom died in Gaza. Are we seeing how a lot violence is required to uphold the imperial established order?” she continued.
Attiah continued, “Many Black and different PoCs will disengage/disengage from these programs and transfer into self- and community-preservation mode,” she claimed. “The storms are piling up. We hold attempting to coach white individuals, particularly on easy methods to construct new shelters, however they hold holding on to previous, damaged instruments.”
“A few of us are utilizing new instruments and can attempt to construct new shelters,” Attiah concluded. “Many won’t survive what lies forward if our cultural and political programs don’t change course.”
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In October, Attiah was dragged on social media after arguing in a column that “we can not stand by and watch Israel commit atrocities.”
She wrote that Palestinians “rightly” identified “that their very own ache and deaths brought on by the actions of the Israeli state have been ignored for years” after Hamas’s unprecedented terrorist assault on Israel, and argued that the US can not allow them to take revenge.
The previous international opinion editor of the Washington Publish was additionally ridiculed on-line when she warned white ladies in a now-deleted tweet that they’re “fortunate we simply name them ‘Karen'” and “do not name for revenge.”
Attiah responded to the backlash on the time, writing, “America is a racist *and* patriarchal society. We can not dismantle the complete spectrum of oppression on this society with out addressing how poisonous concepts about white masculinity work together with the concept of ”defending” their nation. ladies of black individuals.”
Attiah additionally obtained backlash previously when she stated the Texas Rangers workforce identify “must go,” claiming it is “not that far faraway from the identify Texas Klansmen.”
Critics had been stunned when she introduced that she had been promoted to the function of opinion columnist in 2021.
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Cortney O’Brien of Fox Information contributed to this report.
Yael Halon is a reporter for Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions may be despatched to yael.halon@fox.com.
