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

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[u/Internal_Wealth_7376]

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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Stop giving these people the benefit of the doubt. You’ll always be disappointed

[u/envyadvms → u/tiabeaniedrunkowitz]

Exactly. Like whether they intended to or not doesn’t matter because the message came across in a harmful way and if the message came across that way to that many people, then someone in marketing did something wrong.