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I never thought about the whole eugenics thing till I started seeing articles pop up. Seems like a stretch to me. If "the left" is really out raged by this we are fucked.
Is there really any outrage with the sydney sweeney genes commercial or is it manufactured outrage?
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BoomerD
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Yeah, seems pretty manufactured to me…however, in the interest of fairness, she should take off those jeans…
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Saylick
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It just highlights how the Right’s entire existence and purpose in life is to try to disparage the Left because that’s all they have to make themselves feel better. Like LBJ said, if you give someone for them to look down own, they’ll empty their pockets for you. Meanwhile, most people on the Left literally don’t give a fuck and live their lives like normal people do.
UNCjigga
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Some liberal somewhere always finds a way to fuck up a good thing and make the rest of us look stupid. This is one of those things. Nobody—seriously, nobody believes Sydney Sweeney or American Eagle are advocating for eugenics. Sex sells, end of story.
Perhaps, in context with what’s happening in our country, someone got triggered. But it isn’t the brand’s fault that Trump is President, or Sweeney’s fault. This ad would cause zero controversy if Kamala was President.
Perhaps, in context with what’s happening in our country, someone got triggered. But it isn’t the brand’s fault that Trump is President, or Sweeney’s fault. This ad would cause zero controversy if Kamala was President.
Fenixgoon
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I understood it as a play on words, but I can see the white supremacy/eugenics angle. Like, I could swear there was someone in history who really promoted blonde hair and blue eyes as the best thing ever.
Now the thing that really surprised me is how political talk shows and politicians latched on to all this. Sure it's in blogs, Facebook posts, and tweets, but I figured it wouldn't go "mainstream" per se.
But here we are. The Daily Show had a great take on it.
Now the thing that really surprised me is how political talk shows and politicians latched on to all this. Sure it's in blogs, Facebook posts, and tweets, but I figured it wouldn't go "mainstream" per se.
But here we are. The Daily Show had a great take on it.
K1052
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Another manufactured outrage from the right. I've managed to avoid knowing anything about this and I'm definitely excessively online and left.
The entire right wing media ecosystem exists to make mountains out of mole hills or even thin air if necessary. This is the last one.
The entire right wing media ecosystem exists to make mountains out of mole hills or even thin air if necessary. This is the last one.
Brainonska511
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Yep. The right wing ecosystem will take anything that anyone who might be left of center says, even if it is some giant nobody, and attribute to ALL people left of Mussolini so they can continue to feed the right-wing outrage machine.
Pens1566
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My guess is whoever came up with that add got a big bonus and a promotion. It's getting played everywhere, getting talked about, getting a hundred times the exposure it normally would. It's either absolutely inspired or a really happy accident.
Brainonska511
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Right wing media is doing everything it can to distract from the fact that the GOP is protecting pedophiles and child traffickers, including the one holding the highest office.
What am I supposedly outraged about? And why is the right outraged about the outrage I know nothing about?
GodisanAtheist
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Yeah after seeing the commercial I felt intensely aroused.
Wait, what were we talking about?
Oh yeah, it was just a silly play on words and I don't think "Sidney Sweeny is an attractive woman with good genes" is a controversial statement.
Commercial would have hit a lot harder if they had some fat ugly bucktoothed lady who couldn't get the genes to button instead. Skit based comedy shows, get on it, stat!
Wait, what were we talking about?
Oh yeah, it was just a silly play on words and I don't think "Sidney Sweeny is an attractive woman with good genes" is a controversial statement.
Commercial would have hit a lot harder if they had some fat ugly bucktoothed lady who couldn't get the genes to button instead. Skit based comedy shows, get on it, stat!
HomerJS
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The outrage is the claim there is outrage about this. It's a false flag blaming the left about something they don't give a damn about.
SS is an actress famous because she has great boobs, is willing to get naked and lucked up with a groundbreaking TV show. That's it. As I hate to say this is a nothingburger.
BTW - The big outrage is her initials match the name of the Nazi secret police 😉
I predict right wingers esp the white nationalists will hold her up as their symbol of purity and it will force her to make some kind of public statement.
SS is an actress famous because she has great boobs, is willing to get naked and lucked up with a groundbreaking TV show. That's it. As I hate to say this is a nothingburger.
BTW - The big outrage is her initials match the name of the Nazi secret police 😉
I predict right wingers esp the white nationalists will hold her up as their symbol of purity and it will force her to make some kind of public statement.
nakedfrog
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Fat fucking chance.
The original article I saw (posted in a more conservative place than here) sourced the outrage from a couple TikTok accounts and one Threads account, all from people that don't have a particularly large following (the biggest one has almost 19k, the others are 2-3k, not sure how many they had before this thing).
If the commercial featured a person of color talking about great genes would we now be hearing about how American Eagle is woke and against white people?
Oh I know, he just doesn't get to ever say someone hasn't attempted to help him learn. Also it's a great series on how the fuck we got to the shitshow that is the current mess. The last 4 episodes are great at breaking down how right wing media comes from a very different approach.
IronWing
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