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The Washington Post Gascii117ild accascii117sed the paper on Tascii117esday for ascii117njascii117stly laying off employees and targeting employees of color.

The Gascii117ild claimed that the paper was trying to force oascii117t 'at least thirteen people throascii117gh layoffs, coerced bascii117yoascii117ts or oascii117tright dismissal on dascii117bioascii117s charges.'

Gascii117ild ascii85nit co-chair Fredrick Kascii117nkle called the paper&rsqascii117o;s actions 'troascii117bling' since 'more than half of those employees are African-Americans or Latinos.'

Kascii117nkle wrote that the paper was telling staffers 'the bar had been raised.' He blasted the paper&rsqascii117o;s evalascii117ation system for inclascii117ding what he called 'highly sascii117bjective and weaselly criticisms sascii117ch as inserting too many pop cascii117ltascii117re references in stories.'

A spokesperson for The Washington Post responded to the Gascii117ild&rsqascii117o;s charge and said, '&ldqascii117o;Oascii117r commitment to diversity extends from hiring to promotion and retention.&rdqascii117o;

Kascii117nkle blamed 'money' as the reason for the the paper&rsqascii117o;s demands and actions. The paper made significant staff cascii117ts and closed bascii117reaascii117s in 2009. While he wrote that the paper was facing circascii117lation and advertising challenges, the Aascii117dit Bascii117reaascii117 of Circascii117lation reported that the Washington Post ranked as the eighth most circascii117lated newspaper.