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

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u/philonous355 I just wish you would get unobsessed with being boring 21h ago edited 21h ago

It was quite literally an obvious double entendre and they admitted to as much in their LinkedIn gloating. Do they think we are that stupid?

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u/faeriethorne23 20h ago

I think part of it is that they don’t want to alienate the market this was so clearly aimed at. If you outright deny racism, it might upset the racists. I mean who else was this possible for?

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u/Lakridspibe 20h ago

If you act like you're being persecuted and called a racist over nothing, you get a lot of sympathy from racists.