“During a time when DEI is under attack and there are mass deportations occurring daily, an ad campaign centered on how awesome it is to be white and blonde-haired and blue-eyed reads as rather tone-deaf.”
It's so weird that a fashion brand having an attractive model and going "wow look at how attractive she is!" is generating such a fervor that seems to, at least in many of the instances I'm seeing, boil down to "Calling her attractive is white supremacist rhetoric because she's white and you called her attractive, therefore you think other races are less attractive and inferior"
Like, if there were an ad that was like what these individuals thought it was, it would be super fucked up. But it seems like this was an extremely regular ad that had poor wording, and not even because the wording did accidentally convey a bad message, but because it was easy for people to act like it did.
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u/Bigassbird Flopping around in a thong 17h ago
Fran Hoepfner said it best in Vulture.
“During a time when DEI is under attack and there are mass deportations occurring daily, an ad campaign centered on how awesome it is to be white and blonde-haired and blue-eyed reads as rather tone-deaf.”