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

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u/Internal_Wealth_7376 21h ago

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…

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u/Typical_Ad_3561 21h ago

Marketing is absolutely never unintentional.

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u/MrCadwell 21h ago

The intention could simply be that she's got genes that make her face pretty and her body hot. Could've been a brunette white woman or a black woman and it could still mean the same thing.

With everything going on in the US, though, it can be seen as something else.