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Originally Posted by curves2000
At the end of the day, the picture of t-shirt buddy is just a t-shirt. I have been around plenty of these style events. Worked events where significant VIP's are present, had my photo taken with some of the biggest athletes in the world. A lot of the times it's mayhem and there is a million things happening.
This wasn't a commercial with a thousand takes. People come up, start yapping away about how much taller/shorter/better looking you are in person. "ohh my god, I voted for you" "Your the best (insert job) in the world" "Let me facetime my mother, she loves you" Take another, I don't want my eyes closed" "Do you know so and so from your hometown"
People are grabbing you strangely, telling you odd details, hyper ventilating "ohh I have never met anybody famous"
All this stuff is going on and people are expecting these people read and analyze everything at every event including basic clothing choices? It wasn't like this guy wearing a crazy costume or anything. If he wasn't in front of you, you would never think about his shirt from across the street in a packed venue like the Stampede.
It's just a shirt and a picture that happened in a split second. Like I said before, not an endorsement.
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That's a lot of words to make excuses for them where there are none.
These leaders have a team. they're not roaming unattended.
If it was so easy to get distracted and take pictures with racists and homophobes, why isn't constantly happening to Notley, for one example?
I believe these pictures are sending the exact message that's intended by the leaders and their disavowing later is just standard lip service as a cover.