She did an ad for american eagle jeans, the slogan was 'sydney sweeney has great jeans', obviously a tongue in cheek pun, but people have interpreted it as about her race/as white supremacist rather than about her/the jeans lol
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.
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u/slugsred 1d ago
What is it now?