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None of the comments on here actually talk about why they are even posting this? Did nobody see the Sydney Sweeney ad and the controversy??
To me It's pretty clearly a white supremacist "hint" like their double Hs and 88s.. It determines your eye color.. It's passed from the parents to the offspring.. they are not being subtle about it.
Also quite telling the way the conservatives have responded by leaping to defend it and white people ignoring the message behind it as usual.
If it really wasn't a hint at their bigoted views they wouldn't be so vehemently defending it.
from the NPR article you shared:
I didn't watch the ad until you linked to it. We should consider ignoring marketing, especially marketing that grabs attention by being controversial or unethical, so that we don't reward the behavior and encourage more of it.
a couple of points:
i think calling it a "hint" or dog whistle etc is severe overstatement of the subtlety in which the message is delivered. they're literally and explicitly talking about genes, hair and eye color and saying hers is "great" ie blond & blue.
i don't know why no one points to the actual bad part which is them saying genes determine personality, which is straight up eugenicist bullshit
I thought here genes are great cause she's hot and has big breasts. I mean her eye color is not the first thing that pops I to my head.
did no one watch the damn thing?
that's a quote.
In the ad they say her Genes are blue while zooming in on her eyes.
She has big breasts?
that's pretty much the one thing she's known for
Where is the implication that genes are related to personality though?
in the actual Sweeney jeans ad everyone's talking about
I see it now. Yuck. Thank you.
Ok but why white supremest because she's white? I thought just a play on words or are genes only for white supremest now!
apart from blonde hair & blue eyes being called "great genes", the additional mention of personality being determined by genes is straight up racist pseudoscience popular among white supremacists.
also the selection of Sweeney is not a coincidence. she was already picked by the antiwoke (ie racist) crowd as the Aryan prototype that should dominate media.
I think we can agree that believing blonde hair and blue eyes are 'good genes' is a hitler-approved ideology. Whether this was meant in a malicious way in this ad is what's unclear here.
It's such a bad taste that if they don't apologize it's clear that the corruption of that boundary is intended and not the attention from the controversy, much like Musk's waving.
Sad, there will be dark times ahead. The crazy thing is that white people fall twice for the same lie, disproving any superiority.