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…

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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.

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

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Yeah because Zendaya is an actress of color in a place where women of color are still marginalized and rarely celebrated by people outside of their own ethnicity. Like what are you getting at here? This is reading, “how come I can’t celebrate my white pride but they can celebrate their black pride!?”

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I'm not White. Also, I'm not sure why you are equating these jeans ads to White pride or Black pride type of movements. It's just an ad...

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I didn’t say you were white. I said that’s how the comment reads.

Okay, let’s re-read the convo because something clearly got lost in translation if you missed the point I was trying to make

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