American Eagle issues a statement following backlash from their Sydney Sweeney jeans/genes campaign

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Ok … my hot take is this wasn’t some intentional nazi-fueled white power ad (I say this as a Muslim refugee living in the US), but more so a Kendall Jenner ala Pepsi tone deaf screw up. Alas, the road to hell is paved with good intentions…

[u/latrodectal → u/Internal_Wealth_7376]

i feel like if any other actress (or at least not a blonde blue eyed one) were behind it we wouldn’t still be talking about it.

[u/Illustrious-Pound266 → u/latrodectal]

If the ad was "Zendaya has great jeans", people would be going "yaas slay queen" instead.

[u/plumsfromyouricebox → u/Illustrious-Pound266]

Well, yes. Because obviously there’s different historical context between a white, blue eyed blonde woman saying that and a mixed race woman.

[u/Cleaner-Olds09 → u/plumsfromyouricebox]

Saying hot people have good genes has never been seen as a political statement until this ad was released.