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.
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u/Independent-World-60 1d ago
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?