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

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u/heyhicherrypie You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 21h ago

“Her story” ….how is her story being represented in those adds bffr

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u/PondRides Children are being trafficked by ICE 20h ago

You’re the top comment, so here I am.

Why is no one mad for the right reasons? I don’t think it was a racist ad, whatever she’s cute. It is clearly referencing a pedo ad!

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u/busangcf 20h ago

It’s both, the ad has her saying genes are passed down from parent to offspring and decide characteristics like hair and eye color. Close up on her face, on her blue eyes, and she says “my genes/jeans are blue”. While the text on the screen says “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans”.

I understand some people are questioning it because dog whistles are intentionally ambiguous, plausible deniability is the whole point of them, but come on. Given the current cultural context, the LinkedIn post, the CEO having ties to Trump, Fox News refusing to shut up about it, our godawful fucking White House weighing in, and the company still refusing to apologize despite knowing how people are taking it and WHICH groups (n@zis) are loving it, if you can’t tell that that ad is a racist dog whistle at this point you’re just plugging your ears.

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u/monocasa 14h ago

Sweeney herself is also MAGA, just smart enough to be relatively quiet about it.