In a very entertaining turn of events, actress and model Sydney Sweeney has the woke left going totally berserk over a series of ads in which she appeared for American Eagle, advertising the company’s jeans. The left is claiming the ads showed some form of far-right ideology, as the pun used was “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.”
In fact, many online leftists have taken to claiming that the ads, which feature the actress in the American Eagle jeans and a variety of revealing tops as she does things like work on a Mustang and drive it, and end with the “great jeans” joke, carry racist connotations that can be tied to things like eugenics.
One of the ads in the series drew a particular amount of leftist fury. In it, Sweeney is on the ground, slipping into her jeans while in a revealing top, and says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color. My jeans are blue.”
For example, one angry commenter on X alleged that the ads are not about jeans, but about “Aryan eugenics,” presumably because “genes” sounds like “jeans” and Sweeney is blonde. That commenter said, “I didn’t know what everyone was freaking out about with that Sydney Sweeney ad but then I realised I should watch it with the sound on and OH MY GOD. Yeah that’s some f*cked Aryan eugenics sh*t.”
Similarly, another commenter alleged that the campaign is about genetics and is wrong because of “the current state of America,” saying, “Maybe I’m too f*cking woke. But getting a blue eyed, blonde, white women and focusing your campaign around her having perfect genetics feels weird, especially considering the current state of America.”
Still another commenter pushed much the same message, insisting that the ad is “promoting eugenics” rather than being about jeans, saying, “I hate the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, it’s like why are we promoting eugenics with the state of this country rn, NO I don’t want your genes actually. F*ck you American Eagle.”
Watch the ad that sent the left off here:
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Predictably, the leftist outrage over the ad led to a mocking response from conservatives, who found the whole freakout hilarious. For example, Megyn Kelly took those freaking out over the ad to task for their hysteric response to an ad clearly meant to be sexy rather than “racist” or “white supremacist.” She said, beginning, “She’s being called a white supremacist by people who don’t like her latest ad, which is for American Eagle.”
Continuing, Kelly noted that the ad is obviously a joke about Sweeney’s very attractive body, as shown by the tantalizing and steamy nature of all the ads, not a coded reference to white supremacy. She said, “She’s advertising jeans, and yet the lunatics on the left think she’s advertising white supremacy. This is obviously a reference to her body and not to her skin color, but the lunatic left is going to do what the lunatic left is going to do.”
Concluding, Kelly added, “They’re upset because it’s about who gets to be the face of America’s Best Genes. They think it’s no accident that they’ve chosen a white, thin woman because you’re, I guess, not allowed to celebrate those things in any way, shape, or form. But they’re completely ignoring the reference to her body, which is the thing she’s famous for. It’s just absurd.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video