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Maybe That Washington Post Newsroom Face Punch Was a Gay Insecurity Thing [Fights]

Is it possible to milk this WaPo Style Section Intergenerational Fistfight for Journalism Glory for one more day? Most certainly! Because now one of the combatants' colleagues has raised the issue that others were too smart to raise: Homosexual hatred.

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