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Pop quiz time: An MLA wrote the following on his Facebook page and was forced to resign.

Posted by Name Withheld By Request (aka BlueKopo) Dec 2 '09, 14:36

"Another Liberal budget . . . Another $1 billion on the debt by March . . .Girls we need more babies or we will never be able to support our future."

To which, another MLA complained:

"....To suggest to New Brunswick's young women that their only role in society and their only contribution to the New Brunswick economy is to have babies is demeaning and outdated thinking."

Isn't the context of the statement obvious enough that you have to work to get offended? Or is it really just offensive?

http://www.montrealgazette.com/apologizes+urging+women+have+more+babies/2294951/story.html (www.montrealgazette.com)

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reminds me about when a post to a 'model' photographers mailing list was deliberately cross posted to alt.support.sexualabuse and altsomething.pedo - zeitgeist Dec 2, 14:46
not offensive, just offensively stupid. -- nm - mafic Dec 2, 14:43
Not offensive. Irresponsible. -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 14:39 5
- To whom? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 2, 14:40 4
  - To the people of NB? -- nm - con_carne Dec 2, 14:41 3
    - I'm confused. It was irresponsible of the citizens that he wrote it? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 2, 14:42 2
      - It was irresponsible of him to phrase it the way he did, I think is what con_carne is trying to say. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 14:43 1
        
        (And I'm talking about the original poster, not the reply) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 14:44
Not offensive. -- nm - Loyola Dec 2, 14:38
I honestly don't know what it means. It sounds pretty damn retarded, though. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 14:37 4
- The implication that in order to disperse the debt in a managable way, that more people are required. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 2, 14:41 2
  - Given that the birthrate is trending downward, it's a somewhat valid point ... just couched in a very silly phrasing. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 14:42 1
    - (I say "somewhat", because more people == more social services == more debt, until the social services are streamlined) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 2, 14:43
- wait, I think I'm seeing a translation emerge ... - Beryllium Dec 2, 14:40
Whoops. Not forced to resign. Just apologize. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 2, 14:36

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