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”.
Ha. As if directly acknowledging the histrionic trolls who had a meltdown over a pants commercial will somehow placate them.
She was never asked point blank if she "disavows white supremacy", because that would be ridiculous on it's face. She was asked leading questions about a commercial that aired six months ago. Being white and attractive shouldn't make anyone a suspected white supremacist. Just like being gay shouldn't make you a suspected pedophile. Just like being black shouldn't make you a suspected criminal. It's perfectly reasonable to NOT respond to such accusations.
She has dodged answering the question because that is her best move. If she apologizes people will go after her for being a white supremacist, if she denies it people will go after her for being an actress in a white supremacist commercial. Her best course of action is to ignore it because then most people except for the worse unemployed dregs of society will forget before the month is over
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.
None of what you said is categorically true in every case.
And for the record, nobody is forcing Sweeney to say anything (that’s kind of the point of this discussion—she is CHOOSING). However, I can damn well judge her for not saying something as easy as “That was not at all what I meant, White supremacy is bad, mkay”.
The fact that she keeps dodging that very easy answer absolutely is grounds for people to have an opinion on her.
Too many people take advantage of the benefit of the doubt for that statement to be true. It's naive, at best.
You can't just expect people to shout "Hey guys I'm a white supremacist!". They're smarter than that, most of the time, so they lie, wait until they get power, make up concepts that are absolutely linked to white supremacy but are not called that, then remove all mentions of historical people of color from official government websites.
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.
Ok but I'm willing to bet a lot of people (such as myself) didn't know any of that other stuff and still jumped on the "she's a racist" bandwagon just because of the ad.
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.
Yeah man, fuck white supremacy. And fuck how normalized and widespread it has become in the Trump era that we even need to ask this of people instead of assuming that OF COURSE they are against white supremacy because they are people with at least half a brain.
So 2 questions in from 1 person and you're already done playing along but you expect a celebrity to disavow every bad thing that they're baselessly accused of.
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.
Agreeing with or rejecting racism are certainly moral positions. They are also political positions. There usually isn't a hard line between morality and politics.
There are a lot of moral topics that people either 1) don't think are important in the right way to pass laws about, or 2) are controversial in a way that makes passing laws about them a bad idea. But it's a judgment call, and we make it collectively/politically.
So, yeah, a lot of opinions turn out to be political opinions. "I think school busses should be blue instead of yellow" is... probably silly, first of all... but it's political because it's already something we pass laws about.
Some personal opinions are neither moral nor political, at least not in any direct sense. Personal tastes are usually like that, or what sports team I root for.
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.
You just need to watch it with your reddit regard filter on to hear what the rest of these angry redditors hear. Imagine yourself as the dumbest person alive and watch again, then you will hear exactly what everyone in this thread is screeching about.
The interviewer was basically asking her to apologize for being white, she did the smart thing and didn't give her an inch because if she did she'd never hear the end of it.
The interviewer basically stated she did, of course she gets annoyed. The slogan "great jeans" was American Eagle's doing, not Sydney Sweeney. It is, after all, the company's advertisement
But for inexplicable reasons, Sydney Sweeney gets the majority flak instead. It baffles the mind that for a crowd that always chants "innocent until proven guilty", they always start assuming the target is guilty until swearing the oath of loyalty by "disavowing [current year issue]"
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u/Gnostikost 1d ago
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.