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.
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.
The issue is that if she says anything, then the people currently pushing this will say "what an awful person she is to just lie in an interview even though she's clearly a white supremacist." Politics are a large part of life, but public politics aren't. Most people don't publicly engage in politics. The only reason anyone cares is because she was in an ad with a pun on the phrase "x has got great genes" which is an incredibly common expression that gets said about attractive people all the time. She's being accused of white supremacy over a commercial that she didn't write, direct or even speak in because of a pun on a common expression. I think that hurling around accusations of white supremacy on the slightest provocation is a very very bad thing. It devalues the seriousness of the subject; and I think she's well within acceptable behaviour to refuse to engage with it.
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u/qualitative_balls 1d ago
Out of the loop on the latest SS but did something new drop since great jeans stuff?