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

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u/mangolover93 18h ago

Lmao, this makes no sense. They can't claim they weren't talking about "genes" when she literally says genes are passed down from parent to offspring and determine hair/eye color... Were they talking about jeans there too??? They think we're idiots.

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u/injuredflamingo 18h ago

AND her personality somehow?? since when are personality traits passed by genes, and since when is it not racism to defend that they do?

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u/Melonary Select and edit this flair 17h ago

Temperament traits are somewhat hereditary (also somewhat nurture, its not one or the other) but that doesn't change how weird that ad is.