Philadelphia Eagles: New Jersey Politician Uses Bad Judgment in Facebook Posting

We don't know for sure if Jersey City assemblyman Charles Mainor was completely responsible for everything posted on his Facebook status on Sunday. What we do know is that the gay slur posted on his Facebook account bashing the Philadelphia Eagles has caused a ruckus.

During the New York Giants' divisional matchup against the defending champion Green Bay Packers, Mainor posted a status update that read, via the Jersey Journal:

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"We are not going to just lay down, we come to play. Who the hell do you think we are the DALLAS COWGIRLS OR THOSE GAYBIRDS FROM PHILLY...NO WE ARE THE NEW YORK GIANTS.”

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Mainor, who was at a party in Jersey City when he posted the message, said a friend went in and added the "gaybirds" part right before he updated his status.

I'll first say that this certainly doesn't look good for Mainor and people have a right to be more than a bit disbelieving of his explanation.

But it's also another tale of "When Facebook Attacks: Part (We've Lost Count)."

How many times have we seen this, when a high-profile individual blindly throws something up on the Internet only to realize instantly that he or she made a horrible, horrible mistake? More importantly, how many times does this have to happen before people stop making these mistakes? By now, we should almost be paranoid about what we post on Facebook or Twitter, because one misguided status update or tweet could come back to haunt us in the end.

Mainor is an assemblyman, and now he's hit the wrong chord with gay rights groups, among others. Steven Goldstein, chair and CEO of gay rights group Garden State Equality, called Mainor's comments "inadvisable" and said they "hurt a lot of people," according to the Journal.

But Goldstein also said that “[Mainor] is a good and decent man who made an unfortunate misstep here.”

Said Goldstein: “Facebook is public. It’s a public expression of who you are, and people really need to be careful...it’s not your own personal stream of consciousness.”

Couldn't have said it better myself.

This may not be who Mainor truly is, but that doesn't mean some people won't look at him differently now.