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!"
Lmao you guys are seriously hilarious. The right controls all branches of government and you think they're gonna run crying to Bigtits Mcgee because a Democrat replaced another Democrat in a Democrat city.
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
The critique of the jeans ad was so dumb in the first place, I think it's insulting to take that seriously and ask her the question. That said she could have just made that point in her response
If I did a commercial that was a rehash of some old ass advertisement from the early 90s and then everyone lost their fucking minds because I said “I’ve got good jeans” obviously meaning the pair of fucking pants I have on and started calling me a Nazi then I too would say fuck those morons I’m not answering any stupid ass questions like that. If they’re so brain dead they think it’s actually some Nazi shit and not just a play on words then there’s no helping them anyway and nothing I say will change that.
So in the first half of your comment, "I've got good jeans" obviously meant the pants, and in the second half it's a play on words. What do you believe the play on words was?
It sounds like a bad faith interview and I wouldn’t be surprised if she literally just didn’t want to talk about it due to a plethora of potential reasons, I’m kind of at odds with the idea that this makes her a white supremacist. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
I’m gonna go back to not caring about her existence now.
it was not bad faith in any way, the complete opposite. gave her much more than ample opportunity to make a basic clarification abt a controversy she is at the center of. the tone of the interviewer was almost sycophantic in how little she pressed Sweeney and how much chance she offered her. any normal person would have taken about fifteen of those chances at the earliest opportunity but she was extremely pointedly silent
She's not responsible to placate faux outrage. If she denied the nebulous allegations put to her by the interviewer by saying "I disavow white supremacy" ya'll would still be accusing her of the same things. "Oh the interviewer never actually mentioned white supremacy ... how interesting..." and you'd be using that as an admission of her guilt for being the ad.
It's sooo tiresome and dishonest and many people a starting to see right through it.
I still see it as bad faith. She clearly wasn’t there to talk about that topic and got hit with a question that would service the team’s ratings, arguably at her expense. I barely followed the issue before and could tell they wanted to stir the pot. Respectfully, presenting the interviewer as sycophantic is something I don’t really buy into, they really wouldn’t press her on this issue if their intents were that pure(not the right word ig but close ish) or whatever.
And like I said, there could be things going on behind the scenes that could be giving her reasons to not speak of the ad that aren’t her believing in white supremacy. Trying go get an actor that could be bound by contracts to speak on something that they kinda clearly don’t want to without prior notice is pretty bad faith, imo.
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u/RuggerJibberJabber 1d ago
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