&gt; And that seems like a topic people can vigorously disagree about.<p>Thankfully, most industries don&#x27;t have blacklists, so each &quot;career-ending&quot; moment can be evaluated independently by people who do hiring in that respective field.<p>Speech that mocks a Jeb Bush might disqualify you from work at Fox News, or (if any exist) conservative-leaning universities, but might actually be viewed as favorable to others.  It is because we so vigorously disagree on those levels that, for the most part, even though there may be some job losses in the present, except where they are universally disagreed with, should not necessarily be career-ending.<p>Or, at least that&#x27;s how it works in theory.  Gary Webb&#x27;s career never rebounded from having printed a generally true series of articles, but then again, it might eventually have righted itself had he not died in 2004.