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Seriously, why is this a thing?
They went with "my genes make me hot". Nobody there ever said "my white genes make me hot", they actually said something like my blue genes make me hot", as in "my blue jeans make me hot" or something like that .
It's just a word play and the ONLY reason why people nare freaking out about it is because they used a hot white girl.
They could have used a black model, and everything would have been the same, yet nobody would have batted an eye.
Stop giving the right ammo to bitch about how dumb the left is because, yeah, this is dumb. This is just a few people that need a hobby but instead spend their time fine combing every piece of media for something they can spin as a drama where none exist.
Not everything is racist, grow up
Are you dense? They would not have done this ad campaign the exact same way with a black actress. The entire point of the campaign is the pun behind blue jeans/blue (eye) genes. The intent is clearly to court white supremacists while being controversial enough to attract negative attention but also giving enough plausible deniability to garner sympathy from the centrists and the ignorant.