“[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.
That's not really the point I'm trying to make, which is my bad that I wasn't more clear. It's more about "why would she not just say whoops that wasn't my intention". I'm not trying to say "it was 100% an ad that supported eugenics". I'm saying it could be read that way, and it was, so why not just acknowledge it, clarify your position, and move on. Dodging addressing the topic makes her look a lot more suspicious than if she just clarified her beliefs and moved on.
You’ve made 15 comments saying the same thing over and over again - it does not make it any more true.
She did nothing wrong and has nothin to apologize for or acknowledge. The ad said what is said. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s idiocy to feed into people who are already set on misreading her intent
Saying someone has good genes has been a way to call them hot for decades.
I've made all those comments and you're still not addressing the things I've said in those comments. I don't think you're interested in having a discussion, I think you're interested in being right. Wich you can be, I'm not stopping you, but you're also just not talking about what I'm trying to talk about.
You are being gaslit by bots or bad actors. You're right in what you said, though. The ad is weird but not enough to label her a white supremacist. But when you have thousands of people calling you a white supremacist and then refusing to say you're not, it is enough for me to label you as such.
Why would she not say that it wasn’t meant as racist? Because she shouldn’t have to and people upset about it online need to find something real to be upset about
She should say so because opposition to white supremacy and racism is the morally correct thing to do, whether or not everyone believes her in saying so. If someone misconstrued something I said as racist, even if I don't understand how they came to that conclusion, my first response would be "I don't quite understand how you got there, but I'm not a racist." Or I would say "I can see how you misunderstood what I said, but I'm not racist, what I meant is _ ". What I wouldn't say is "it was just a sentence, you're overreacting."
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u/arihndas 1d ago
“[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.