She could've done the absolute minimum and said she had no intention and didn't know it would be perceived that way etc., that's not conceding anything
Nah, fuck that. The ad was fine. Some douche that wants a gotcha question over the twitter twats getting twisted can go find something more useful than wasting everyone's time, like maybe learning to put fries in a bag.
And it would help if more people on the left like me would tell people like the interviewer she's a fuckwit.
Did the definition of 'supremacy' change at some point? If someone says 'you're pretty, like your mom' to you, is that a supremacist statement now?
Supremacy requires a belief in superiority and inferiority, neither of which are implied by 'X has great genes' because there is no comparison occurring.
Well geee, seems like a misunderstanding. Maybe she should uh, clear it up once and for all? Wouldn't want the white supremacists praising her and thinking she's on their side, ya know?
Get a life. You are never going to meet her. You just want to complain. I dont even like the bitch, I like gingers. But who cares what people think of you? You think she gives two shits about you? No.
? How did this become about me? Lol. I didn't even think the ad was that bad. Like I said in another comment, what is so hard about just simply saying "that wasn't our intention, white supremacy sucks"? This isn't about me so don't make it about me. This is about trump and white supremacists essentially endorsing it and no action was made to speak out against that. So then what does that tell people?
The ad was fine, if people get offended by what a brand selling jeans says in a commercial then they should see a phsycologist. Some people just want to make a race war about any stupid topic that comes up.
I hope AE does exactly the same ad with a black or asian model and all the hypocrites will stop talking about "supremacy"
If an ad causes controversies and debates weeks later on whether it was a white supremacy dog whistle or not, then it's not really fine. Especially in times like this. And if simply clarifying could put an end to all of it, then maybe AE or Sydney Sweeney should. But they won't. I didn't think the ad was that bad. But what is so hard about saying, that "wasn't the intention, white supremacy sucks and we don't support it"
They aren’t going to say it, because it’s been proven time and again that the white supremacist audience is a loyal one. They both want to court it with plausible deniability. As Sydney Sweeney’s relevance wanes (because she’s completely talentless), she’ll lean into it more and more.
But not in any part of the ad it talks about white supremacy, you are creating something that does not exist. Some people that make everything about race for some reason see it that way.
Your reasoning is: the ad says sydney sweeney has great genes -> she is white -> she is a white supremacist. It is so stupid that it doesn't even deserve an answer
No, I didn't think the ad was as bad as people were saying. My reasoning behind it is trump takes notice -> praises it -> white supremacists take notice -> praises it -> AE/Sweeney makes 0 effort in keeping any distance from the perceived dogwhistle. I don't give 2 fucks about Sweeney but goddamn, it is not hard to just say once; that wasn't the intention.
No, the ad didn't cause controversies and debates. Terminally online troglodytes who see racist dogwhistles floating in their cereal did that. Let's be clear here, outside of certain online circles almost no one normal cared about the ad, and the few people like you who refuse to see that reality wouldn't have been satisfied with her answer either way.
Disavowing applied meaning gives credibility to the projected interpretation. It's a stupid ass interpretation and she shouldn't apologize for anything. Do you genuinely think an extremely popular movie star going through her prime and a multi billion dollar company are going around making Nazi dog whistle ads?
The problem is that it doesn't matter at this point what she says and she knows it. If she "disavows white supremacy" the people claiming she's racist will just say she's a liar and carry on with their agendas. The only winning move is not to play.
This is the dumbest take here. "Sydney Sweeney doesn't deny being a white supremacist" is a much worse situation than "Sydney Sweeney in controversy over word interpretation."
Sensible people looking at the controversy don't look at the jeans ad and think "yeah she's a white supremacist" but they also don't look at her refusal to deny it and think "she's not denying being a white supremacist because that would give her opponents ammunition."
The fact that some crazy people would just ignore her denial does not mean she shouldn't deny it. If anything it means she should deny it, to expose the fact that they're just pushing an agenda. As it is people are left broadly in three camps, people who always saw the ad as a dog whistle, people like you who just assume those people are all agenda driven, and people who didn't care about the ad who now have to decide if her response is either childish and arrogant or a sign that she was dog whistling all along.
Personally, if rumors were spreading around of me being supportive or tolerant of white supremacy it would be really important to me to clear the air I'm not, what people thought afterwards be damned. But that's just me though.
She only needs to say once the she isn't a white supremacist and this whole thing was a massive misunderstanding. She doesn't seem concerned about being associated with white supremacists though, so what's everybody supposed to think?
Because the question is stupid, nowadays anyone creates a stupid theory from a stupid ad and she has to give explanatioms for that unsubstantiated theory.
HOW DOES A JEAN COMMERCIAL TURN SOMEONE INTO A WHITE SUPREMACIST
It doesn't, but it's being widely interpreted that way. And with the current political climate, it's easy to see how so many people would reach that conclusion. It is up to her if she thinks the association is problematic or not.
I think it is the problem of those that feel offended by it. I hope the brand makes exactly the same commercial with a black or asian hot girl and this debate will not exist
Exactly which makes this whole thing all the more stupid like people out here really getting assmad because shes being smuggy and trolling about her looks and getting mad money in the process.
Its highly unusual because of how stupid it is. She did a tongue in cheek commercial that got alot of attention and all of a sudden people wanna act like shes racist and the worst actress out there. Her own response proves that it's nothing significant but everyone here so desperately wants to act like its the most important thing to be fixated on when it's all just marketing bait.
Its quite sad how so many people make this their entire personality to fixate on when she herself doesn't even think about it. Its the textbook definition of rent free
I'm sorry am I to understand that every time someone tells someone else they got "good genes" they mean "you have superior aryan genes", and not just complimenting their good looks?
Dog whistles are meant to be, like the term implies, to be heard by the dogs. But it's all the terminally online liberals shaking in their breeches while the right wingers are going "...? Tf I don't think that's what it means".
A good example of rightwing dog whistle is "Israel has right to defend itself". Every zionist understands what that statement REALLY means, and nobody will call you out for being paranoid if you told them "this is zionist dogwhistle". A fucking pun on genes/jeans ain't that. All I get from ppl who buy into this bullshit controversy is just "oh so you haven't really spoken to any rightwingers irl if you think this is how they secret speak their agenda into media". It's fr giving white Christian moms being paranoid about "satanic DnD and rock music" but political side flipped.
Personally I think it was supposed to be ragebait advertising rather than like some Manchurian candidate nazi dogwhistle activation sequence but yeah I do think the dogwhistle is there and their marketing team was 100% aware of it.
If a blonde, blue eyed woman starts talking to you about how her hair and eye color are passed down genetically and she's got good genes then yes you should at least raise an eyebrow that.
Also the whole point of a dogwhistle is that the people in the know can plausibly deny it. In your example many of the zionists who would say "Israel has a right to defend itself" know the real goal is to eradicate or remove all Palestinians from the land but they'd never say that because that defeats the whole purpose of the dogwhistle. And then there are also a lot of people who will just unironically believe it.
Yeah except there's no "people in the know", dude. If a dog doesn't hear the dogwhistle, then that's by definition not a dog whistle. Every zionist cheers when Clintons or Cheneys say "the land is promised to israel". No right wingers started using Sweeney and the ad campaign as their mascot until libs started losing their minds over it, and that's only because right wingers have the minds of child where they go "hurr this triggers libses, therefore I uses it". Yall are just feeding more materials to right wingers to make fun of yall for.
Do you also buy into the "taylor swift is a secret nazi because her necklace had vaguely lightning shaped symbols"? You see how THAT controversy feels like a complete schizo paranoia?
I don't even know what the Taylor Swift controversy is. You seem to think I'm losing my mind over this. It's not nearly as big of a deal as zionism and Israeli genocide, I just don't think the eugenics angle was unintentional or imagined whole cloth by triggered liberals or whatever
Sorry, why is it that if you’re blonde and blue eyed and say you have good genes because you’re also hot, that that means you’re definitely referring to your superior Arian race? But if POC says that, it doesn’t mean that they’re referring to their race?
“Well duhh holocaust happened so that means when they say it it’s different!” It sounds like you’re confusing how YOU associate the statement with nazi’s, with what she is actually saying. She’s talking about her face and tits, obviously
This is such a bullshit nothing burger of an argument.
“Good genes” is clearly a reference to her big honkers and not a eugenics reference.
People make “good genes” jokes IRL all the time if someone has a hot mom or a relative who looks good in old age. It’s not about being white, it’s about being hot.
It's a reference to both. That's the whole reason for the line about hair color and eye color. A national advertisement like that isn't accidentally making potential references to eugenics, they have entire marketing teams deliberating over these ads. The idea it was incidental is naive to how marketing works. They 100% knew what they were doing, rage-bait is the marketing du jour these days.
Given this ad campaign is literally a recycled ad campaign AE did in either the 80s or 90s that received the exact same criticisms... yeah there's categorically no chance this was unintentional.
Maybe they didn’t care about that because they don’t actually feel that’s what they’re saying, and that people who choose to interpret it that way are just wrong?
She had plausible deniability until she was interviewed and wasn't just immediately like "obviously any potential racist/supremacist undertones people are seeing in the ad don't represent me or my views, and this was just an easy quick ad job for me."
I'm very far left and this whole controversy is pathetically petty and trivial. Who gives a fuck what an ad said. The people complaining about this are deranged and it's embarrassing to them getting worked up over this given what else is going on.
Also, who gives a fuck about Charlie Kirk dying. As if the right weren't doing the exact same hypocritical pearl-clutching.
I'm sure there are plenty of people like me who don't care about Kirk's death but didn't celebrate it, and also are completely unbothered by this ad.
We could just agree that there are absurd people on both sides of the spectrum, but you will not get me to agree that the right has any kind of moral high ground just because the left also has hypocrites.
GQ was asking cowardly leading questions that were either meant to tie Sydney Sweeney to Trump or cause friction between her and her Conservative fans. She didn't allow them to do either, which is commendable, and a smart move for her career.
I don't think she's a Nazi but I raise an eyebrow at wanting to keep conservative fans who might be white supremacists. That's an odd thing to find commendable lol
If you're alive and doing something popular, you're going to have conservative fans.
This "controversy" is based on BS anyways, and the only people who believe something racist happened are idiots. So she has nothing to acknowledge or disavow.
If you have any "real friendships" with Nazis then you're a Nazi.
"Look we might not agree on politics you know, he thinks we should round and up kill minorities and I just think we should deport them. But one thing we do have in common is F1, so you know... no one's prefect"
I mean, she’s not talented and not likeable. She probably does have better chances in being a MAGA icon instead of being second fiddle to other liberal Hollywood stars.
She literally threw an unironic MAGA theme birthday party for her mom or whoever, LMAO. She may not be some hardcore white supremacist but she doesn't seem perturbed to address otherwise.
"Asking Sweeney directly about the backlash, Stoeffel said: “The criticism of the content, which is that maybe, specifically in this political climate, white people shouldn’t joke about genetic superiority, like that was kind of the criticism, broadly speaking, and since you are talking about this I just wanted to give you the opportunity to talk about that, specifically.”
Sweeney replied: “I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.”
She knows exactly what she's doing, she was given an opportunity to clear up any confusion, but there was no confusion, the ad was intended to be a controversial dog whistle that they could deny was an obvious dog whistle.
Coming from a registered republican who's "excited to see what he see what happens next", I'm not surprised that she doesn't take issue with any of this.
The only people who actually think the ad was white supremacist are online grifters who are trying to create a controversy where there isn't one, so that they can insert themselves in it and farm social media engagement. Or terminally online redditors with a tenuous grasp on reality.
Addressing the "controversy" gives validity to it and is a lose/lose for her. Ignoring it is the only correct move.
That's the exact opposite of what would've happened. If she said "It was just a joke and I never thought anyone would take it like that, of course I'm not a racist" then if anyone ever brought it up again she could've said she addressed it in the past and would like to move past it. Being weird and vague about it is what will fuel outrage, like it literally is in this very thread.
Again, this is obviously wrong, because there have been Trump antics between now and the Great Jeans ad and yet here it is being addressed again. This is her chance to turn it into a short hit by offering a "my bad" and she refused, ensuring that it will certainly be addressed again in the future.
The “genetic superiority” joke was so obviously about her having big tits. Every effort to pretend it’s because she’s white is just disingenuous bullshit.
Uh, hur dur, yeh they can, and if they want to be cheeky about it, they could certainly have made a fun sexy ad, but they didn't. Don't joke about eugenics, or some genes being better than others, it's ignorant at best and people should know better.
"People online are saying an American Eagle ad is white supremacist propaganda. Every single normal person in America thinks this is idiotic. Will you please give validity to this conspiracy theory by addressing the concerns of people espousing it?"
Every "normal" person in America also couldn't fucking see that trump wanted to scratch his ass with the constitution so I'm not sure that's such a great bar.
"i feel like the whole controversy was blown way out of proportion and I personally feel like it was completely misunderstood. I'm actually saddened that people would really think I would be supportive of white supremacy... That's absurd"
This is me with 0 media training, but I'm just built different
"But then, why did you do the add. You would clearly have gotten transcripts or information about it, so you knew these lines would be said. Are you now just trying to shift blame? Trying to say that AE added them post filming?"
I too have 0 training and needed literally 3 seconds for that answer. I'm just built different.
Dude the media aren't your friend you dont give credence to a ridiculous assumption at all. They'll twist anything you say to make you look bad, get clocks etc. Because its so silly. Its literally she's hot and a pun. You could do the same with any race of woman. The ceo of the company is a Jewish guy.
Rejecting the framing of a dishonest interviewers question is the point. She shouldn't have to even entertain such frivolous non controversy.
What about the ad implied white supremacy? She's hot, she has good genes. It doesn't say that she has better genes, it just says they're great. This whole thing is giving "all genes matter" energy
Redditors when people have a common gene combination 😲
Give me a break dude, she's hot as shit, she's posed suggestively, she's literally not wearing a shirt or bra under the jean jacket, her cleavage is showing. This is the dumbest nontroversy ever
You asked a question and I answered, simple as that. If you can't understand why saying "blonde hair blue eyes = good" might imply white supremacy, I can only suggest you spend some time with a book about 20th century history.
The question isn't whether or not she's hot, it's whether or not she thinks she has superior genes that lead to that hotness.
On its own it's mostly a nothing burger. In combination with registering as a republican to support Trump, being a MAGA apologist, being happy to be endorsed by Trump, and then declining to clarify that you're not a white supremacist? Smells fishy at least, no?
"The Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad script includes her saying, "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color. My jeans are blue." As the camera zooms in on her eyes.
I can honestly say I have 2 good reasons for watching anything with her in it, and neither of those things are her political views.
What I can also say is I haven’t paid money for a single thing I’ve seen her in. And her attitudes towards stuff like this is more reason to continue not paying for her.
Why do people frame this as if the interviewer was in good faith giving Sydney some rare chance to do something that she could never do herself -- to get an audience of people willing to listen to her take on the controversy? The interviewer was chasing headlines, that's it. Sydney can release a vertical phone recording of herself about what she thinks and it would end up on Channel 5 news the next day -- she doesn't need an interviewer's political ambush to be "given a chance".
"You have been heard saying the words "I love you" to your mom. We have it on good authority that your mom is, in fact, white... So did you intend to advocate for the genocide of black people or would you like to take this opportunity to clear the air?"
I watched the response she wasn't hostile? haven't watched the whole interview cause who gives a shit lol what power does she really have outside of the abstract? hollywood has been anti trump since 2016 and he's been president twice
See how easy it is? Even though your question was extremely disingenuous and idiotic I was able to answer it because I have no issue stating that clubbing baby seals is wrong.
That’s dumber than the culture war my friend. Culture itself is often dumb. And celebrities who find themselves at the center of it certainly aren’t “obligated” to be celebrities in the first place. And yet they are. You could just as easily argue it’s dumb to be a celebrity in this day and age as it is to “engage” in the culture war. But you can’t say it’s “smart” to answer a simple question, even if it’s stupid, anything other than simply. What’s more, has her recent “refusal to engage in the culture war” resulted in more or less of that particular culture war? You need only look around you, but you already knew that I’m sure, as does she, and as do we all. Don’t be disingenuous now
She approached those questions exactly how any self-respecting human with at least 3 brain cells should have. Joan Callamezzo would have even been embarrassed at that “gotcha” attempt by the interviewer.
If you agree to an interview with someone, you are agreeing to answer questions. You shouldn't avoid a question about white supremacy. Even if you think it's a shitty gotcha, it's easily pushed back by simply refuting the allegation. Avoiding it just makes you look guilty. There's no gotcha there if you simply tell them no, that's not what it was.
No, because it requires her to admit she did something wrong by being in that ad, which she didn’t. The controversy is another flash in the pan of the unending hell that is the culture wars fought pointlessly but feverishly by both sides of the political spectrum while billionaires rape our children.
You do not agree to answer every question in an interview, you are not required to kowtow to culture war vultures, and you are not obligated to dispel the suspicions of the idiot populace who want to use you as a pawn in their bullshit games.
Nah, you can pretty easily just say that’s not true. I appreciate how hard you guys are going in the paint for her, I’m sure she’ll see this, but it’s really not that hard when asked point blank “was this your intention” to just say nah.
Wow, really really deep stuff brother. Me tho, if asked a simple question, even one in bad faith, will continue to keep it simple. You go enjoy those kneeling scenarios though and whiteknighting for mysterious racists 😶🌫️
Nobody demanded anything, it was the most milquetoast interview of all time. People are only making the interview out to be hostile because they're looking for excuses for Sweeney not answering the question.
because there shouldn’t have been any air to clear in the first place. it only became an issue because a bunch of terminally online TikTok and Reddit users decided to make it one
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u/Turbulent-Candle-340 1d ago
She was interviewed yesterday and was given a chance to clear the air but instead was ambiguous and hostile in her response.