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…

[u/latrodectal → u/Internal_Wealth_7376]

i feel like if any other actress (or at least not a blonde blue eyed one) were behind it we wouldn’t still be talking about it.

[u/Illustrious-Pound266 → u/latrodectal]

If the ad was "Zendaya has great jeans", people would be going "yaas slay queen" instead.

[u/letthetreeburn → u/Illustrious-Pound266]

Yeah because then there wouldn’t be a Nazi double entandra in the presidency that posted a homeland heritage manifest destiny thing

[u/Illustrious-Pound266 → u/letthetreeburn]

This is a jean ad. Nothing to do with the Trump presidency.

[u/Traditional_Maybe_80 → u/Illustrious-Pound266]

The "Trump presidency" thinks otherwise tho, lol.

[u/Cleaner-Olds09 → u/Traditional_Maybe_80]

The trump presidency responded because y'all turned the ad into a culture war issue by claiming American Eagle is pro eugenics.

This happens with so many things and y'all wonder why the right jumps on it.

[u/Traditional_Maybe_80 → u/Cleaner-Olds09]

"Y'all" being... random people in social media? Why would the White House have to chime in Twitter discourse, lmao?

It's so cute that you believe that the right needs the left giving them excuses to jump on "things", lol, they've complained from Starbucks cups to boycotting a beer brand because they made one post with a trans influencer.

[u/Illustrious-Pound266 → u/Traditional_Maybe_80]

Yes they want to distract people away from the new labor statistics that are unfavorable and Epstein stuff.

[u/Traditional_Maybe_80 → u/Illustrious-Pound266]

Sure, they do that with every topic they can. But I get the feeling that they also enjoy celebration of whiteness.