Washington Post editor responds to threat by calling America a ‘racist *and* patriarchal society’

Published July 7, 2020 2:46pm ET



An editor at the Washington Post posted threats she received in response to a previous tweet about racism as proof that America is a “racist *and* patriarchal society.”

Karen Attiah, a global opinions editor at the newspaper, tweeted a screenshot of a threat she received in response to a tweet she sent warning that “white women are lucky that we [black people] are just calling them Karen’s … and not calling for revenge.”

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