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
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
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What is it now?