That's racist!

[GroverCleveland]

Thanks.

Are any of our posters affirming the ad has racist connotations?

The usual suspect.

 

[NashVol11]

Kind of curious as to what was weird about it.

Older men that talk about teenage girls looking good and "old for their age" tend to be creeps, much like those who rush to their defense

 

[marcusluvsvols]

Here’s what I’ve learned about “some” black people on TikTok live discussion panels.

They believe black people are native Americans.
Black people invented most every major technological breakthrough
They think white people have no culture
They’re pissed that white women wear braids
White people are colonizers and have ruined Africa
They want segregation to return.
They’re owed reparations
They support attacks on white people.
They don’t know how to replace the battery in a beeping smoke alarm and they drive Altimas

The Altimas thing is scientific fact. I don't think Nissan sells them to white folks. Just black women. Here in Charlotte, a big portion of black males aged 18 to 25 drive Chargers. Blacked out, often wrapped in vinyl. Interstate 85 looks like Charlotte Motor Speedway with Chargers racing on the west side of town. Broad daylight or night. Doesnt matter. Stay out of the passing lane unless you're rolling 100mph+

 

[GroverCleveland]

At this stage in my life, I no longer see these young women as objects of desire. A lot of them are the same age or younger than my daughter. They are simply pretty girls. Anything further would feel really creepy to me.

Yep. I want to feel differently, but nah, just admire it for what it is.

 

[GroverCleveland]

Older men that talk about teenage girls looking good and "old for their age" tend to be creeps, much like those who rush to their defense

So if I remark that a young girl is pretty and say looks older than her age, according to you there is a significant chance I am a creep?

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Khaki or feldgrau?

I don’t know. Better stick w/ Khaki.

I was just making light of this ridiculous situation. The bottoms line is that it’s the hot “IT”Girl in Hollywood right now selling jeans and the marketing campaign used a play on words, acknowledging that said hot girl has great genes or jeans. People for some reason, try to find fault with this ad, mainly left leaning white women, who have a miserable existence. It’s just an ad. And once again shows the hypocrisy of those who DGAF about Beyoncé’s very similar Levis ad. Everything doesn’t have to be under a microscope.

 

[C-south]

I am lost.
I don't know who Sydney Sweeney is. And I don't know what set off the controversy.

Is there someone who can summarize the issue for me?

American Eagle has a white girl making jean commercials and use a play on words saying she has good “genes”.

 

[C-south]

The Altimas thing is scientific fact. I don't think Nissan sells them to white folks. Just black women. Here in Charlotte, a big portion of black males aged 18 to 25 drive Chargers. Blacked out, often wrapped in vinyl. Interstate 85 looks like Charlotte Motor Speedway with Chargers racing on the west side of town. Broad daylight or night. Doesnt matter. Stay out of the passing lane unless you're rolling 100mph+

Don’t sell the smoke alarm thing short.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

Her bust size can take up a lot of space.

Seriously the only reason she is famous

At this stage in my life, I no longer see these young women as objects of desire. A lot of them are the same age or younger than my daughter. They are simply pretty girls. Anything further would feel really creepy to me.

100% this. In this case not that pretty IMO...but to each, their own.

I got a thing for the hot British actresses several are 40+yo but forever look 30- 35. Theres a handful of them and they're all beautiful IMO.
Rosamund pike
Naomi watts
Emily Blunt
Olivia wilde
Karen Gillan

 

[85SugarVol]

Thanks.

Are any of our posters affirming the ad has racist connotations?

Nash did not call it explicitly racist. He commented on the “dog whistles” in it.

Sydney Sweeney does in fact have “good genes”, at least the ones that produced her outward appearance, her unique variation of phenotype.

She may have a horrible set of unseen genes, that make up her individual genotype - I have no idea.

 

[GroverCleveland]

I don’t know. Better stick w/ Khaki.

I was just making light of this ridiculous situation. The bottoms line is that it’s the hot “IT”Girl in Hollywood right now selling jeans and the marketing campaign used a play on words, acknowledging that said hot girl has great genes or jeans. People for some reason, try to find fault with this ad, mainly left leaning white women, who have a miserable existence. It’s just an ad. And once again shows the hypocrisy of those who DGAF about Beyoncé’s very similar Levis ad. Everything doesn’t have to be under a microscope.

Those folks have a simple remedy: don't buy the jeans.

 

[NCFisher]

Has nothing to do with her being white and much more to do with the dog whistles about passing down traits and blonde hair/blue eyes being "good genes"

Not only is there no mention of hair, eye, or racial color, the word 'good' isn't there, either.
Gushing nonsense, that in an ad to sell jeans you see an Aryan call to arms. Get help.

 

[NashVol11]

Not only is there no mention of hair, eye, or racial color, the word 'good' isn't there, either.
Gushing nonsense, that in an ad to sell jeans you see an Aryan call to arms. Get help.

She mentions hair color and eye color explicitly and there is a giant banner at the end saying she has great jeans/genes. What are you talking about?

 

[85SugarVol]

the cellar dwellers, on both sides, have a history of holding her up of "breaking thru the woke bubble" as a return to the oversexuality of non-sexual products in commercials.

this isn't the first woke controversy involving her, but if you listen to her she still leans pretty far left; she just knows what makes money.

What other woke controversies has she been party to?
She’s a young Hollywood star - she’s undoubtedly uber-liberal lol.

I think a big part of the angst over the ad is the clear break from the Diversity driven advertising we’ve seen over the last few years.
Fat models in bikini ads, racially ambiguous characters and couples, every group presented a completely unbelievable kaleidoscope of color and ethnicity.

The reaction to this seems to be - How dare you put blonde headed white girl in your commercial, by herself, and then have the nerve to call her “pretty”!

tHaT’s NoT iNcLuSiVe!!!

 

[NashVol11]

What other woke controversies has she been party to?
She’s a young Hollywood star - she’s undoubtedly uber-liberal lol.

Don't remember the context, but there have been a good number of right wingers projecting "anti-wokeness" onto her because she is an attractive white woman with big boobs (as if "wokeness" hates that) and has some MAGA family members

 

[NashVol11]

Haha

 

[85SugarVol]

She mentions hair color and eye color explicitly and there is a giant banner at the end saying she has great jeans/genes. What are you talking about?

Again, what is so nefarious about implying blonde hair / blue eyes could be the product of “good genes”?

 

[marcusluvsvols]

Nash did not call it explicitly racist. He commented on the “dog whistles” in it.

Sydney Sweeney does in fact have “good genes”, at least the ones that produced her outward appearance, her unique variation of phenotype.

She may have a horrible set of unseen genes, that make up her individual genotype - I have no idea.

But the ad wasnt a "dog whistle" which is a stupid Leftist term like "deplorables".

To normal people, the implication that she has "good genes" is that she is (allegedly) beautiful. Versus "bad genes" of someone who is ugly. Theres no racism involved to anyone except those delusional Leftists who look for "racism" in absolutely everything. Every aspect of life. Everything they encounter. Which actually makes THEM the racist azzholes...because they are the only people hung up on the color of everyones skin. The vast, overwhelming majority of people literally never think about this bullcrap. We have lives going on. Challenging, complicated, nuanced lives that consist of many different things and people. Normal Americans have no time to waste worrying about other folks melanin levels. We have bills to pay, mouths to feed, and kids to raise. Between work, school, sports, church etc etc normal people dont even have time to oppress minorities...much less a desire to or means to actually accomplish that.

The idiots hung up on racism are Liberal white women with way too much time on their hands and black people that are focused on the wrong things in order to succeed. Ive never met a successful Black person that cries about racism, including either one of my sisters. They complain about the culture problems in black communities. Seeing racism in everything around you is a self-defeating mindset and a recipe for misery. The rest of us are focused on the important things in life...God, family, work, play etc.

 

[hndog609]

It would be absurd to say there aren't idiots on both sides of practically anything political but damned there's a bunch on the Left that come across as being very proud of some mind bogglingly stupid takes and push mightily to make those takes heard as much as possible.

 

[85SugarVol]

Older men that talk about teenage girls looking good and "old for their age" tend to be creeps, much like those who rush to their defense

Yea, little weird when you wade into “she looks old for her age”

 

[hog88]

Haha

Right or left if that commercial triggers, outrages or conjures any racial feelings you're an idiot.

 

[NCFisher]

She mentions hair color and eye color explicitly and there is a giant banner at the end saying she has great jeans/genes. What are you talking about?

She explicitly doesn't mention her blue eye or blond hair color, nor refer to good genes at all; that was all you. The banner states she has great jeans, not jeans/genes. You're hallucinating.

As much as we'd all prefer commercials featuring obese and/or unstable POC, and/or biology denying, septum-ringers, unfortunately there are normal people to also market to.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

These ads are getting too hot to trot. Here's another racist ad by Sweeney.

 

[Sea Ray]

This woman is all over the place,v first she points fingers at the gathered media for social media posts and complains to them about the harm social media does by showing one side of the story.

While I agree there was likely more context I'm just not sure what she's getting at or even the purpose of wagging her finger at the gathered media.

I mean I have a theory, but that would mean she's simply virtue signaling. For what purpose I'm not sure.

Regardless, my opinion is she's not very good at her job as a communicator for the department.

If she says that the SM posts lacked facts then fine. Give us the facts. Unless you do that, expect SM to do so and fill that vacuum

 

[ETV]

Some might believe the commercial being discussed, wasn't an advertisement for jeans at all. But an ad with it's hidden agenda, a new recruiting method for young white males.