General on Yik Yak | the amount of people throwing around the word “eugenics” over this ae ad didn’t know the meaning of it until 2 days ago. it’s a commercial. stop making everything a big deal.

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General 7w

the amount of people throwing around the word “eugenics” over this ae ad didn’t know the meaning of it until 2 days ago. it’s a commercial. stop making everything a big deal.

Anonymous 7w

Maybe YOU didn’t understand eugenics or how it could relate to this. Do you remember when H&M got in trouble for putting a black model in shirt saying “coolest monkey in the jungle” My point is that the point of a dog whistle is to be as deniable as possible. Maybe it wasn’t the intention, but it’s hard not to side eye it.

Anonymous 7w

It’s not eugenics but also “her jeans are blue, she has great jeans” definitely has an odd undertone

Anonymous 7w

You just have no media literacy

Anonymous 7w

Exactlyyyyy It’s a play on words not eugenics people

Anonymous 7w

If extreme leftists didn't act like this WE WOULD have more votes. -left leaner

Anonymous 7w

Preach

Anonymous 7w

Okay, but you have to look at the presentation: an advertisement that was basically copying Brooke Shields’s Calvin Klein ads from when she was 15 (which were pretty gross) is a rough start. Then you have a white woman with blue eyes and blonde hair talking about how genes determine characteristics, she lists off hair color, eye color, and personality; the ad then concludes that Sydney Sweeney has great “jeans.” People calling this out for being a dogwhistle are not entirely irrational.

Anonymous 7w

“How can I be be victimized today🤔” the mental gymnastics they go through to find something wrong with anything amazes me. Imagine if they used that effort towards something actually productive

Anonymous 7w

for those of y’all saying this I hope you know you’re acting like a trash supporter!

Anonymous

#3 7w

💫⭐️ no it doesn't ⭐️💫

Anonymous

#2 7w

I’m a left and I think people are taking this so fucking stupid. At this point it isn’t politics it’s just fucking idiots.

Anonymous

#2 7w

😑 agree to disagree ig

Anonymous

#2 7w

Agreed

Anonymous

#2 7w

I’ll agree with you there. There are so many things happen rn that are so much more important and actually dangerous that the focus on this ad feels idk like a weird hill to fight on

Anonymous

#4 7w

It’s really just an ad with a famous attractive model and jeans that I know a shit ton of people wear. This has happened for years but “oh it’s 2025 let’s only show certain things so people won’t complain” like god forbid.

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Anonymous

#4 7w

Wokeism is on life support

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Anonymous

OP 7w

What are you getting at with the obscure quote? So because a famous person is promoting a brand and said brand is popular, it’s not possible for the heads of that brand to drop a racist dog whistle? You don’t seem to account for corporations being bastards.

Anonymous

kroger 7w

Let me guess, you thought Superman was bad too?

Anonymous

#2 7w

definitely does

Anonymous

#8 7w

It does not

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Anonymous

OP 7w

superman was woke and thats good lol

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Anonymous

OP 7w

lol I have not watched it but I heard it was good?

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Anonymous

#9 7w

Sydney is good looking. She has good genes. They also sell jeans

Anonymous

#10 7w

So good genes = white and blonde with blue eyes… they knew what they were doing.

Anonymous

#9 7w

People find her attractive. So it’s going to sell. They aren’t saying other people don’t. It’s a play on words.

Anonymous

OP 7w

Yes, it’s wordplay; that being said, it is double entendre. It’s a white woman with blue eyes and blond hair talking about genetics, and then the ad says she has great jeans. Genes, jeans… it’s not subtle, and especially when the ad talks about how genes impact eye and hair color, it implies that Sweeney’s genes of blond hair and blue eyes are “great genes.”

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Anonymous

#4 7w

Most companies tend to be pretty “progressive” on these things sense that’s who goes to work in advertising. But honestly there’s just no reason to think this has anything to do with Eugenics. Saying a good looking person has “good genes” is a common turn of phrase at least where I’m from.

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Anonymous

#11 7w

it’s not really mental gymnastics here. discussing things that can be interpreted as white nationalist dog whistles does not mean that people aren’t actually doing anything meaningful. I’d argue that analyzing and pointing out media like this is something productive and meaningful.

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Anonymous

#9 7w

I think your interest in politics might be causing you to read into this to much. Humans are extremely good pattern recognizers we find patterns and “hidden meaning” in things that are random chance.

Anonymous

canesfan 7w

Media, and the interpretation of media, does not exist in a vacuum. Even if this wasn’t the intent, how did nobody stop to think about the blatant issue of a white woman with blond hair and blue eyes talking about how great her genes are? All media is carefully constructed, and specific choices are made by its producers. It’s important to analyze those choices, and again, how did nobody stop to think about something that’s obvious to a lot of people if it wasn’t intentional?

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Anonymous

#9 7w

They could also have chosen Sydney Sweeney for the campaign because she is extremely well known for being pretty. The producers probably thought people would connect “good genes” with her reputation not with her race. Especially sense saying pretty people have good genes is a common thing to say, whereas the eugenics angle is a leap of faith

Anonymous

canesfan 7w

If you’re saying there’s no good reason, then you obviously don’t know how to read or are painfully unaware of history. It’s okay to not know about things, it’s not okay to be painfully ignorant repeatedly.

Anonymous

#9 7w

If you’re thinking that a company owned by a Jewish man is using eugenics in their commercial rather than just using one of the biggest celebrities right now that happens to have blonde hair and blue eyes and saying they have good genes/jeans (a pun) then you’re trying too hard to make this negative. And let’s be real, her hair and eye color are not what got her into that advertisement.

Anonymous

#11 7w

Next you’re gonna tell me that because someone’s Jewish they can’t commit an atrocity like genocide. You guys go to school and never pick up a book.

Anonymous

#4 7w

I like how you completely deflected my argument and tried predicting what I think. No but thinking that a Jewish owned company is going to be using the blonde hair blue eyes eugenics move when that’s the exact movement that eradicated millions of Jews is such a historically blind and flawed take. How about you pick up a history book? This is coming from pretty basic history

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Anonymous

#4 7w

Well they probably don’t have an interest in promoting the “Aryan race” given the history

Anonymous

canesfan 7w

the “aryan race” isnt the only in group who would try to commit a genocide

Anonymous

#8 7w

and it has nothing to do with race most of the time and everything to do with financial interest and state control

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Anonymous

#8 7w

I agree with you #8, I’m not saying anything about genocide. I’m just saying a Jewish CEO probably isn’t going to be pushing Nazi propoganda.