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[+] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Seriously, watch the ad we're talking about before making a fool of yourself.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I watched a couple... Would you be kind enough to send me the one you think I should watch?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Here is the original Sydney Sweeney "jeans" ad that sparked the controversy. AE took this one down and replaced it with versions that are less overt so that people who hear about the controversy will see those instead and not understand what the fuss is about, even if they are typically more clued in.

    And here is the Dunkin donuts ad, which IMO is even more overt with the reference to "color analysis."

    Standing alone these ads have plausible deniability, but they feature attractive white actors bragging about their good genetics in the context of the president surrounding himself with and appealing to white supremacists and RFK Jr re-popularizing eugenics.

    Edit: I personally haven't seen the Arby's one, and I'm not going to go looking for it. This bullshit has me feeling angry and bitter precisely because it is meant to fly under the radar for most people and make those calling it out sound crazy. I'm going to touch grass instead of further torturing myself.

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