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Fake Outrage of the Weekend: Dan Savage, the 'Vile Anti-Christian Bully'

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Killgore Trout4/29/2012 4:50:37 pm PDT

re: #94 SanFranciscoZionist

Second, the idea that people will identify them and refuse to hire them over this seems farfetched to me, although I can hypothetically see asking the question of one of them: “If I send you to report on something, and the speaker says something you find offensive, are you gonna walk out, or bring me back the story?”

Ah, I see the confusion from my wording now. I’m not implying that this indecent will follow the students into their professional careers. But professional journalists can lose their job over a slip of the tongue, a poorly worded sentence, any slight perception of insensitivity or simply reporting something that somebody finds offensive. Even a drunken tweet from home will people fired.