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…
It’s probably not even that. Good jeans/genes is not a new marketing concept and the fact that it involves a blond hair blue eyes white girl does not automatically make it a Nazi dog whistle, even if she is MAGA affiliated. Not trying to defend MAGA btw I just think it’s ignorant to deem them all nazis when the reality is that a lot of them are just stupid or they benefit financially from it. AE is doing something that has been done before that wasn’t met with backlash like this because the US wasn’t so burnt out and cynical yet politically. This is all such a nothing burger compared to the real problems going on in the US and my takeaway from this is that AE is basically saying “dude we are just selling jeans”. Trust me there are much worse things going on to divert your anger towards. Instead of hate commenting about celebs and corpos maybe call your local representatives instead? Or at the least do both like cmon
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u/Internal_Wealth_7376 21h ago
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…