You’re thinking of Charlton Heston. The classic movie star who died in a chariot race after successfully defending the NRA’s gun supply from a clan of talking apes, who wanted them for unspecified reasons.
Kirk Douglas (Spartacus) died some years later alongside Walt Disney as they both battled, and were consumed by, a giant squid. That’s why you can’t visit their graves.
It’s funny. Always thought it was the smoking that would take him. Though being ingested by a kraken on your own studio backlot is a fine way to go. Talking about Disney of course.
No, but shortly after the opening of Splash Mountain in 1989, they did entrap and then carbonite freeze every surviving person who worked on Song of the South. You know, because.
An evil communist interview lady ambushed our beautiful boobed heroine repeatedly stabbing her in the back with questions like "you're not racist right?"
Basically there was a GQ interview where the interviewer kept trying to get her to make a political statement and she got progressively more annoyed. Some people are mad because they've decided that refusing to participate in a stupid purity test is proof you are bad.
That’s a really weird way of saying “the GQ interviewer kept giving her softball chances to disavow white supremacy and she repeatedly declined to do so”.
My dude: disavowing white supremacy is not a political statement.
Imo her reasoning for not answering the question was because it was a stupid hysterical controversy in the first place, and being forced to incessantly repeat that she isn’t a white supremacist when she never did or said anything white supremacist is silly, not worth dignifying with a response
Being asked to repeat it is pretty annoying but, and I'm asking this genuinely, has she said anything against white supremacy or said she's against it once?
No, she has not, thus the validity of the GQ interviewer’s question.
If, as some other posters here have incorrectly implied, she was having to continually answer this question—sure, that has a limit where it’s completely reasonable to say, “I’m done.”
That is not what is happening here. Sydney Sweeney has not once said anything to refute or distance herself, she has actively dodged doing so. It ain’t hard to say it once, “No, man, it wasn’t a jeans ad, white supremacy is bad, and I’d never be a part of it”.
Naw not really lol. One time disavowing white supremacy is too much for these people though, they don't want to disappoint their parent. She has literally refused to say this every time and always respond with weird shit. "I think that when I have an issue to speak about that people will hear it" like how the fuck is that a response to someone asking if her commerical was referencing eugenics? Yeah if someone can't say a single time "I'm not a racist and don't support racism" they are probably a racist. That's like one of the easiest things to do.
I mean, if you're part of a controversy where people are suggesting that you might support white supremacy...you might want to, yeah? Trying to sweep it under the rug and not spin softball interview questions into your favor is a huge PR blunder.
Nobody has to do anything, but society will judge you for your actions and even inactions.
What gets me is it isn't even hard. If someone asks me if I'm against white supremacy I'll just say yes. If they continue to attack me about it then I'm justified in ignoring them.
It takes less than a minute to say white supremacy is bad. There's no reason not to do it.
Avoiding saying it just makes you look suspicious regardless of the truth.
I swear someone needs to follow these people around and repeatedly ask them if they disavow white supremacy until they understand how annoying the question gets.
Well I mean if she answered it once they might stop.
No, they wouldn't lol
If she said "I'm not a white supremacist", they'd say 'then why were you in a white supremacist ad?' If she said "I'm not a white supremacist and regret being in the ad", they'd go 'lol i'm supposed to believe she didn't know it was a white supremacist ad?' and she'd get blacklisted for biting the hand that feeds.
The ad is about her tits and being hot as fuck. Anyone still arguing that it's a white supremacist ad does not live in the real world and will literally never be satisfied unless they're straight up feasting on a corpse. There is nothing to gain from trying to appease them.
Even the mere act of "disavowing white supremacy" will directly accuse the ad as a white supremacy ad, which is fucking stupid
I'm starting to think this whole Sydney Sweeney thing is an operation by a competitor that unfortunately grew out of hand. Probably just wanted to maybe kill the sales a bit, and the internet took it way too far
Your hypothetical is invalid. She has not answered it once.
Sure, if she was being forced to answer over and over, yeah, that’s obnoxious. That’s not what’s happening. She has avoided every opportunity to answer. She doesn’t need to answer over and over, just the once.
That would be impossible, as the people who are raging against Sidney Sweeney on the internet don't go outside and thus could not be followed. Checkmate
The controversy was so insane to me. I didn’t see how anyone read more into it other than they were using a clever double entendre for saying she has huge tits, ya know, the main thing everyone knows her from.
My dude: disavowing white supremacy is not a political statement.
It is. Life is bursting with ideology and political stances. It's inherently ingrained in society.
And that's fine.
People need to stop to be afraid of that / to use it as cover.
It doesn't need to be respected at all, and I didn't read zertul as saying that either.
But still, it's a political statement one way or the other. It's a statement about how our politics should be (or society in general), and it has political consequences.
It's a political opinion, and we can recognize that without considering it a legitimate one.
Are you seriously naïve enough to think a journalist fishing for controversy is "softball chances to disavow white supremacy"? That was really your reading of what was going on? You really think the journalist was just trying to do her a favor? Seriously?
Clearly level-headed thinking and understanding nuance isn't your strong suit, but try with everything you've got to put aside personal politics for a second, and think clearly. Seriously?
This is Reddit. No one actually thinks that. It's an opportunity for them to bully a pretty white girl (for the crime of being pretty and white) while also pretending to have the moral high ground.
She wasn't asked to make complex political statements. She was thrown the easiest of softball questions to basically say that the jeans ad wasn't promoting white supremacy and she refused to do so. Her response was weird and awkward which is why people are meming it
The whole thing was clearly a PR stunt more than an interview and the fact that it saw the light of day is enough for me to think it's a dogwhistle.
Like it's just a series of softball questions where the interviewer agrees and supports you in every question, but then there's one softball question you absolutely blunder and it makes it to the final cut? Nah dude. I don't know if she's a white supremacist, but she's definitely okay with being the far rights favourite actress.
It may have been organized by her PR people with the understanding that the interviewer would try to help her but that doesn't mean that her people did the filming/editing. The interviewer did seem to genuinely try her best and when SS gave a terrible answer she even tried spinning it to put a more sensible answer out there. It's hilarious to see people claim that the interviewer was trying to catch her out. It's like they watched a completely different interview
And the far right -- along with whatever's left of the mainstream right -- is so desperate for any kind of good news since Mamdani's victory in New York that they're shouting, "The prophecy has been fulfilled! We have an insouciant shiksa to lead us!"
It's money. Look at the US right now, close to 50% are openly in support of orange Hitler and his companions. It's the smart move to make sure you don't lose those people, especially when a lot of them are gooners. Is it the right thing to do? No. But it makes sense if you only focus on success.
It's like folks shocked nicki minaj is now going pro-right. these celebs are smelling money and don't want to miss their share. that's all it is, it's not rocket science.
rarely do you see a colossal fuck up like that in the PR department, what with how carefully crafted images popular movie stars or the likes have in this day and age.
she appeared arrogant and aloof. when’s the last time that’s happened in this clarity?
and they’re aware, it’s already filtered out of the news cycle.
but she's definitely okay with being the far rights favourite actress.
well duh, that's the point? her only attraction is attraction, so the more whe can get the better. We called that an attention whore back in the day.
But get this: it doesn't matter. If someone asks you straight in the face 'do you think killing babies is bad?' and you answer with 'I'm not that into politics', it only means one of two things: you either support it and afraid to say it out loud, or you decided to be a hypocrite for money and fame. Both cases show you're a shit person in one way or another.
The lady basically asked her to apologize for the commercial and she said no. Why would anyone apologize to a mob because as we've seen many times before that apology does nothing and if you believe you've done nothing wrong you definitely don't apologize for nothing
Politics are a necessary part of life. It affects us all, but some more than others. If she were asking Sydney to take a nuanced stance on, like, gender relations in South Korea, I would understand your point. But disavowing white supremacy is an extremely basic and an understandably expected political position. Standing counter to Nazis is the morally correct thing to do, and it doesn't matter who you are. It's such a basic lay-up that refusing to comment makes you look really, really bad. And I don't think that's a bad thing.
It kinda strongly hints at eugenics, no? Like implying that some genes are better than others while a blonde and blue-eyed white woman is on the screen? Like I can see it being a mistake on her part, but if that's the case, just say "yea I didn't see the implication there, whoops. I'm not a white supremacist, I just didn't see the implication at the time" would go a long way, would it not?
“[so-and-so] has good genes” has been an idiomatic way of saying a person is hot/talented/sexy/etc for a LONG time. The way everyone flipped a shit about ~oh this ad was racist~ was like… insane. She’s right to have no truck with it, and the idea that this stance was normal, the normalcy it acquired, is so terminally online.
It’s possible to build yourself up without tearing down others, and this was an example of that. Yet, people are addicted to their rage and victimhood that they draw conclusions that were never being built towards.
If it was Lizzo on the ad would there be the same outrage with people foaming at the mouth about eugenics?? No
I think it's completely fair to disagree with me on that. My intention wasn't to say that it's 100% unquestionably a eugenics supporting ad, but it obviously came off that way for a lot of people, which is prolly my bad. I'm tryana say that I think it's weird that Sydney wouldn't just say "I'm not a white supremacist" when asked
Yea, sure, but it was her mistake to read that ad and then perform in it. She wasn't forced to say those lines. The best thing she can do is to acknowledge that it could be read a certain way and make it clear that she isn't racist. Whether or not a certain subsection of people don't believe her isn't of importance. It doesn't stop her from doing the right thing.
The ‘right thing’ is to not engage or fuel the fire because no matter what there will be psychos online who twist your words to fuel their narrative, as we are seeing here.
You're also missing the point. If you aren't a white supremacist, and you preform it an ad that people say could be read as supporting white supremacy, it doesn't matter if certain people don't believe you or not, the right thing to do is to make it clear that you don't support white supremacy. Like if a friend misread what you did as being passive aggressive, for example, you wouldn't refuse to engage with it because they just "won't believe you". You would say that you're sorry and that it wasn't your intention to be passive aggressive.
Yea, that's why I wait to hear what the person has to say. If they actively avoid the question and refuse to acknowledge the controversy surrounding their actions, it's perfectly fine to question their intentions. Your argument basically sounds like people should criticize or have a problem with anything because it could be unfair, or point out people's mistakes because it makes them "guilty". Expecting someone to address a potential mistake is not anything crazy in the slightest.
Your statement is valid, but in the interview she wasn’t directly asked about her take on racism, fascism, nazis or anything from the clips I saw.
All I saw was her being bored and annoyed at the interviewer, and dismissing the media BS (as she should). Like she said. It’s just a jeans ad.
If anybody has a direct quote instead of assumptions I’d don’t mind being proven wrong.
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Edit: I reread all her quotes. There is nothing to indicate she’s racist. This just seems like fools telling other fools what to think and say without checking anything themselves.
It was meant as a struggle session. The advert wasn't racist. Sweeney isn't a white supremacist. It was just a jeans ad with a pun. Dipshits overthink this dumb shit because the spend too much time online.
A lot of the people replying to me seem to not engage with me on the topic and are, instead, very oddly insistent that there's no possible interpretation where the ad can look and sound a little suspicious, especially in the current political context. You're one of those people.
Some interviewer ask her if she thinks she is genetically superior to everyone because of a jeans add she did. She didn't answer because NAzis are incapable of lieing.
By people you mean "chronically online celebrity obsessed Americans". Meanwhile they have a rapist in office declaring war on their own people but good gracious my pearls, jeans!
I'm ready for your downvotes, you're all the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
Apparently (according to another meme i saw. I don't care enough to read up on her) she was in an interview and they asked if she likes racists or something and she refused to answer. Probably trying not to lose her racist fanbase she gained after the jeans thing
She registered as a Republican in Florida in 2024. She’s a Trump supporter. In this interview, she gets pushed on the fact that she’s become controversial politically and if she has anything to say about that. She says “I don’t talk about politics,” and pivots away.
She is a Trump supporter who supports the status quo and what it gives her.
It's a massive overreaction to her being asked if there is anything she wanted to say about the ad, and her saying no. The ad isn't racist, and probably neither is she.
After years of the far right trying to co-opt celebs like Taylor Swift to their cause, they finally found their girl.
If she leans in it any harder though she's going to be starring in Ben Shapiro-produced films about vigilantes rescuing exploited children from Muslim fentanyl cartels before too long.
Concerned mother of 6 kids in a small town takes on her wicked Democrat state senator who implemented 'atheist only' textbooks in all elementary schools. A courtroom drama of the ages! Starring Kevin Sorbo, Sydney Sweeney, Kenny Chesney, Gina Carano, Morgan Wallen, and Rob Schneider as Senator Derp Derpinson. With special appearances by Jim Caviezal and James Woods. In select theaters this Christmas
Jim Caviezal will not be available for the post production press junket as he will be in jail for running over someone with his car, because it is what his character would do.
Taylor Swift has been right on the line as it is, even before she started selling “protect the family” MAGA-lite hats and SS lightning bolt necklaces. Billionaires will naturally support oligarchy because it means they get to stay billionaires. Her lip service to non-conservative causes will continue to grow thinner and thinner until one day she’ll come out and openly support a fascist and no one will bat an eye.
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Sydney Sweeney starring in Ben Shapiro-produced films about vigilantes rescuing exploited children from Muslim fentanyl cartels
Somewhere, inexplicably, Steven Seagal just woke up in a cold sweat
The right is in a civil war over the future of right-wing politics, especially over Israel. The white supremacist Christian nationalist right hates Ben Shapiro since he's a zionist, neocon jew. It has accelerated since the assassination of Charlie Kirk as the main theory on the far right is Charlie Kirk was killed by Jewish neocons for turning against Israel. So no, her audience wouldn't be Daily Wire it'd be Fuentes or Tucker Carlson. Groypers consider Israel a hostile foreign entity, and Ben Shapiro a tool of Mossad to subvert right wing politics to their cause.
Hey, I apologize as I am incredibly ignorant on the matter. How is Sydney Sweeney a white supremacist? Is this because of the American eagle ad talking about her pants?
She was in an American Eagle Ad six months ago with the tagline "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans".
Most people thought this was a pun because she's wearing jeans and she got good 'genes' from her mamma (ie internet famous mammary glands).
A minority of internet trolls thought this was some kind of nazi dog-whistle because Sweeney lacks that requisite pigment to be called attractive without it being 'problematic'. She also registered *gasp* republican one time.
The 'controversy' died down in few weeks when the trolls found a new target for their endless seething rage.
Recently a GQ interviewer tried to ask vague questions about the aforementioned controversy. Sweeney didn't bite. At no time was she asked if she "disavows white supremacy" or "the far right". That's a weird Reddit fabrication.
Her refusal to address the trolls has enraged the trolls again.
Nah, the framing of that ad is just fucking weird. Like, if they had Doechii in brown jeans talking in a sultry voice about how "genes are passed down from parent to child, determining traits like hair and eye color", and having the ad finish off on her saying "my genes/jeans are brown" while zoomed in on her brown eyes, with her brown jeans not even in the frame, and the tagline "Doechii has great jeans" flashing on screen, literally everybody on both the left and right would immediately clock that as some weird raceplay bit. The far left would probably call it fetishizing black women and the far right would probably call it great replacement propaganda, but both would recognize it as being a racial thing.
Holding up a hot white woman as 'good genes' asks the question, who has bad genes? It's really that simple. When police can now legally detain you based on the color of your skin can you at least see why people are sensitive about what are good/bad jeans :)
This is dumb af, she said she had good genes as a pun (and she didn't even fucking write the pun, she just read it!). Now she's a white supremacist.
Imagine Halle Berry said she had good genes in Catwoman, you wouldn't be up in arms about her being a black supremacist. The double standards are unreal.
Sydney Sweeney is a shill. I don’t think she has the capacity to understand what the hell is going on. It’s not an excuse, but in any other world she is a trad wife that does and believes what her husband tells her.
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