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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Cowboy - you willing to admit Notley posing in a picture at an anti-pipeline rally from years ago is as relevant or non-relevant as a four-year old article on Klein's daughter voting for the NDP? Or is the threshold different?
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The reason why I said what I said in my post is because context and nuance is everything, and time travelling news articles, pictures, tweets are increasingly (intentionally) presented without it or re-framed to add a more nefarious context or accompanied by a headline that is intended to mislead people who don't click on the link and actually read the article. They are used as a weapon to misrepresent their target.
Also Ralph Klein's daughter is not running for premier or even for office. So her historically held thoughts and beliefs in 2015 are completely irrelevant to how the NDP would approach governing in 2019 and beyond, whereas Notley's on the other hand could matter. Albeit again the longer the time passed since the picture and today and the less accurate context provided alongside the image the less relevant it is. So, yes the comparison you made is probably a different threshold.
The one neat thing in that article is that it had Klein's daughter mention that Ralph himself likely would have been proud of her for voting for what she believed in and that their relationship wasn't political. It's honestly a shining example of how people who disagree on some topics should peacefully co-exist. Regrettably politics has taken on a temperature where people judge individual's entire character by their political views.
Again the context matters for everything. Personally I have a lot of respect for Rachel Notley. I think that pipeline protest picture juxtaposed with her current stances and official platform can actually be used to her advantage because it highlights how pragmatic she could be in government vs. where her ideology might have been.