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Seriously, why is this a thing?
They went with "my genes make me hot". Nobody there ever said "my white genes make me hot", they actually said something like my blue genes make me hot", as in "my blue jeans make me hot" or something like that .
It's just a word play and the ONLY reason why people nare freaking out about it is because they used a hot white girl.
They could have used a black model, and everything would have been the same, yet nobody would have batted an eye.
Stop giving the right ammo to bitch about how dumb the left is because, yeah, this is dumb. This is just a few people that need a hobby but instead spend their time fine combing every piece of media for something they can spin as a drama where none exist.
Not everything is racist, grow up
You're a child if you think this shit. Fascism is in, and marketing teams are going to be selling it to the masses.
Dog whistles are made for those who call them out to sound crazy. That doesn't change the fact that they're dog whistles.
And this is not it.
Nowhere is any reference or indication about Nazis, last time I checked, that Sweeny girl has nothing to do with white power, racism, or Nazis, she just happened to be white.
It's about jeans/genes making you look pretty.
Now unless you're trying to tell me that, say, black people or Latinas cannot be pretty because of their genes, there is literally nothing wrong.
If you ARE telling me that, though, then I'd say you're the racist. And a creep.
Dog whistles seem innocuous until you understand the intent. But I'm done trying to convince you based on other's replies and your responses to them.
Fascism is here. Don't be dense, stay alert and stay alive. I care for yours and everyone's safety. Know that more of these appeals to whiteness are coming. In addition to more calls for violence against others. They will also be used to sell products (like this one, even if you don't agree) cause that's what marketing does.
100% agree. I can’t help but think this outrage is likely Russian meddling sort of like hexbear and .ml taking the most extreme positions on everything.
People have extrapolated unintended meaning from the ads and are running wild with it. The ones who eat it up and repeat it aren’t capable of critical thought.
Are you dense? They would not have done this ad campaign the exact same way with a black actress. The entire point of the campaign is the pun behind blue jeans/blue (eye) genes. The intent is clearly to court white supremacists while being controversial enough to attract negative attention but also giving enough plausible deniability to garner sympathy from the centrists and the ignorant.
I think their response is a big part of it. Rather than going "It wasn't our intention to bring race into this" they essentially just went "What's the big deal guuuuuys? It's just jeans! That's all we meant, right? Good jeans? Haha, you guys get it!"
And every dog within a 10 mile radius started howling.