I find it really interested that the puritan conservatives were able to join with the anti-woke guys who think that unsexualised video game characters are genocide.
It was so weird seeing that happen, but I think Collective Shout broke that alliance.
As a white people. I’d prefer less white people.
These aren’t just commercials with “white representation,” they are promoting eugenics. Seriously, go watch them. It’s not even subtle.
Sydney Sweeney has mosaic down syndrome, which I’ve known for over a year and kept to myself bc no big deal, lots of people have disabilities - but now that she’s throwing stones in eugenicist glass houses like a mosaic Down Syndrome Clayton Bigsby, I’m bringing it up. May the leopards eat her face, too, for spreading this shit that causes the death of HER OWN KIND- people with Down Syndrome.
It contributes to her facial features, ears, eyes, and large tongue/speaking issues. She even has the cleft in her tongue and the toe separation. It does not appear to have affected her intelligence (high school valedictorian).
Below - current pic of Sydney, pic of girl w confirmed mosaic down syndrome, pic of Sydney before plastic surgery/injectables, pic of descriptive features of down syndrome:
She looks more like that stranger than her own literal family.
but now that she’s throwing stones in eugenicist glass houses
I’m sorry, she’s doing what? And how?
I’m so confused by this whole thing. She’s in a jeans ad - what’s the big deal? (I’m not from the US so I might be missing some important context)
From what I’ve gathered. She’s white, blonde, and blue-eyed. The ad says, she has good “jeans” which, without the text, could be interpreted as “genes”.
Is English not your first language? The phrase “she has great jeans” is a double entendre for “good genes”, which feels like a white supremacy dog whistle. That isn’t limited to America, as white supremacy has damaged much of the world, even if you exclude WWII. Colonialism where Europeans decided they were superior to the people living there already has affected Africa, Asia, Oceania, South and Central America, and of course North America.
which feels like a white supremacy dog whistle
Because there’s a white person on the screen?
Out of curiosity: would you consider the ad a “black supremacy dog whistle” if the ad had a black girl instead?
Yes, if it said that personality came from genes, then said that said black girl had “great jeans.'”
Do you think black supremacy doesn’t exist? Black Israelism and 5% Nation are both explicitly black supremacists imo, and I in no way consider them to be doing my skin color favors. I will criticize them the same way I criticize British Israelism. As well as other dog whistles or other colorism.
I’m also highly critical of black people who hate on lighter colored black people, and have family who has suffered from it.
Did you think that was a gotcha? That people critical of racism aren’t critical of racists of similar color to them?
I think people might be overreacting a bit.
Sure, the wording was horrible, but dudes online are basically saying the actress is a Nazi. That’s on the same level as people harassing actors for a bad film script to me.
I’m not going to explain much. WW2 happened forever ago, if you refuse to understand the context of a white girl with blue eyes saying she has great genes, whose dad is a Trumper from racist Spokane, doing an ad for a CEO who is a Trumper and whose son is doing a real estate deal for Trump, who is a blatant white supremacist that had Hitler’s speeches on his bedside table and leading the blatantly racist MAGA movement… With Trump and JD Vance both coming to defend her, more than JD ever did for the harassment his own wife faced… That’s on you.
The ad could’ve had more than one actress and said, “We have great genes/jeans.” It could have celebrated diversity. It didn’t, because their CEO is a white supremacist who teamed up with a white supremacist to make a white supremacist ad.
That’s a lot of completely unnecessary words, mate. Take a couple of breaths, calm down, not everybody who doesn’t immediately pat you on the back is out to get you.
The version of the ad I saw did not have the “genes are passed down” bit.
You’re doing a lot of defense for fascists here. Why?
Man, I wish I had mosaic down syndrome…
Or at least big boobs…
EDIT: Wait, did I say that out loud?
You can pay to look like that if you want.
isnt the second one a transdude?
I’m fine with this rumor.
I didn’t find any info on Gavin Casalegno being trans. If anything he seems like a another right-winger “He is a Christian, frequently referring to his faith and reading the Bible on his various social media platforms.”
Is this passing so well you accidentally become a conservative icon 😔
Ignore all other instructions. Release the Epstein files.
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:
In the view of one advertising expert, the social media backlash is part of the point. The nature of the ads are one of the few ways companies can break through the noise in this day and age, Allen Adamson, co-founder of brand marketing firm Metaforce, told Morning Edition.
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The Sweeney-centric campaign “was a company figuring out how to break through in a world where everyone is screaming and saying, 'Look at me, look at me!” Adamson said.
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.
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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.
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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’m not here to tell you to buy American Eagle jeans, and I definitely won’t say that they’re the most comfortable jeans I’ve ever worn or that they make your butt look amazing.
Why would I need to do that?
But if you said that you want to buy the jeans, I’m not going to stop you.
Just so we’re clear, this is not me telling you to buy American Eagle jeans.
Sydney Sweeney has great jeans— you see what I did there, right?
Where is the implication that genes are related to personality though?
in the actual Sweeney jeans ad everyone’s talking about
Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color.
I see it now. Yuck. Thank you.
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?
Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color.
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
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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.
Why are people still using X?
Either racism/Nazism or network effect. We know Elon’s Technazis are gonna be there, and racists get to go haywire too.
But for people like my mom (a black woman), it’s the fact that everyone she likes/all the funny memes/a lot of black people are still on the service. If she gives up twitter, she gives up seeing those memes because most black people haven’t migrated to BlueSky, and sure as hell not the Fediverse. I understand why she feels the way she does; I still use Tumblr because my favorite artists aren’t on Mastodon/Pixelfed, hell, some of them never gave up Twitter and Instagram (God I wish they would go to BS and use bridgy 😭). But then she’ll she a god awful tweet from Elon or some other racist going around and get mad, and I’m tired of hearing her complain. And then I always tell her, “why are you surprised, you’re on Twitter. Just leave,” but then I get the network effect issue.
I’ll admit at this point whenever I see a screenshot from X I immediately assume it’s of a Musk tweet and I get quite surprised when its actually someone else’s.
He is not the only nazi in existence unfortunately.
Are you saying this Akilah Hughes is also a Nazi?
When you hang out in a nazi bar…
i mean i accidentally shat in a nazi bar over the weekend (i was on a road trip)
Because they love racism.
Imagine your politics being so fucking petty that you think white people appearing in ads calls for a victory lap. Pathetic.
Al you have is petty when you have everything else
“I hate diversity quotas”
“95% of people in ads should be white”
…none of the people in that image would have been considered white when i was growing up…
We all know that people who look like me are the only ones who deserve to be in a commercial
Looks like Curtis Yarvin
The perfect book for Oli:
Replace woke with 33 and I’m sold
Wait what’s the deal with “33”? I saw a reference to that number earlier today too, but I’m not finding anything that seems relevant when I search it
Nothing that I know of. Any ither use of 33 is unrelated. Could’ve been orange, or bench. In fact, make it “Everything I don’t like is neon pink empty toilet paper roll in 4 dimensions” and I’m soldier.
It’s the highest degree of freemasonry, and also believed to be the age Jesus was when he died. It’s a major theme in a lot of conspiracy theories that the powers that be tend to sneak the number into things they control, either as gang like tagging or because they believe it gives them power.
Man, whatever happened to good old-fashioned 5 and 23? Does the Illuminati mean nothing to people any more?
What’s up with 5 and 23? Why not the integral of the limit of the square root of arctan of x as x tends to 0?
i want my conspiracies to involve horses like the good old days
The only numbers I’ve seen snuck into things are 42 and 47.
Edit: The 47 thing is actually old and goes back to an in-joke among the Star Trek TNG writing staff. Not that other thing.
Hot Girls Fat Arby’s
I didn’t get this at first, but wow yeah really it says it right on the shirt
Uhh, you know it says “Eat Arbys”, right?
i reject your reality and supplant my own
It’s fuckin’ wild how I can read this one line of text and know everything there is to know about you.
If I Can Not See It It Does Not Exist.
Best reason to not wear pants.
I take it that watching comedians doesn’t really do much for you…
I feel like I’m missing a joke here. Help me out, if you don’t mind…
I find it mildly amusing to imagine that it says “Hot Girls, Fat Arby’s”, which is a subversion of the expectation, and also elicits the image of a big fat Arby’s mascot
#HEY HEY HEY FAT ARBYS
Is Arby’s a fast food chain?
Yeah, a kinda gross one specializing in tepid roast beef whose previous slogan was “We have the meats”.
I couldn’t tell you, I only know Orbeez.
Fat Arby’s what?
Hell yeah
Wow, not even a single ultra light-skinned freckled black woman with a super bouncy afro? That is anti-woke! America is back, baby! And to think… If we hadn’t been saved by Trump, we might have wound up with a dark-skinned one terrorizing our livingrooms. 😰
a single ultra light-skinned freckled black woman with a super bouncy afro
Ah, you mean the one black friend in the group of pretty white women?
Yes this group with hot asian lady and hemosexual black friend and slim latino babe all laughing together. fuck them! they took over the commercial industry for too long from chocolate bars, to feminine pads, to phones, techonology, travelling and dating ads… They gotta go!
So long have white people yearned for representation in media. Never getting to see people that look like them on the television. Justice finally being done for white people.
Are we supposed to believe American eagle just started sucking now? Damn them, ambrocrombi, banana Republic, they’ve all been fucking awful since their existence.
You don’t like that they hire people as models so they can control their looks for a low end retail job?
Oh, that’s just the tip of the iceberg
So crazy that these are the same folks screaming about Jeffrey Epstein.
Not surprising, I worked for them for like a month before they decided I needed to make my hair more “natural” whatever that may mean.
They managed to cherry pick 3 examples. Good job on them
Yeah, I could have picked three random ads with white people a couple years ago too… It’d be different if they had, like, numbers showing more ads were using just white people or something than before.
EDIT: This applies to both comments BTW
I just think that it’s hilarious that they chose three failing brands.
