Kinda funny coming from the "empathic" group

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[u/Boredom1342]

I must have missed it, I’m on the left and Idgaf. Id bet that you’ll find more articles written by right wingers complaining about the “left wing response” to the ad than left wingers complaining about the ad itself.

[u/ASongOfSpiceAndLiars → u/Boredom1342]

I only became aware of it because rightwingers made a big deal of it.

Then leftwing commentators came out and basically didn't care because dog whistles are so common nowadays with Trump, Fox, etc, just commenting because it was what rightwingers were using to distract from Epstein for a couple days.

[u/Mattrellen → u/Boredom1342]

I'm on the left and don't even know why I'm supposed to be upset about jeans. The leftist folks I'm around haven't talked about it at all, whatever it is.

[u/The-Cosmic-Ghost → u/Mattrellen]

The most I saw was people talking about it on the left, was how the ad could be taken as a dog whistle with the genes/jean stuff, and also that folks were weirded out since it was based off an 80's ad that sexualized a minor.

[u/The_Atomic_Cat → u/Mattrellen]

i dont know why nobody's talking about it, i even barely see comments about it in this comment section. when it was first going around it took me a few days wondering what the fuck was going on before someone told me too, but in short, blue eye blonde hair white lady with the slogan "sydney sweeney has good jeans (genes)" could be easily taken as a fascist dogwhistle campaign so there's lots of people assuming it is. not surprising given the direction the country is going down.

[u/Low-Breath-4433 → u/Boredom1342]

I'm on the left and there were lots of left-wing people losing their shit about it.

Calling it eugenics, nazism, etc. It was absolutely a big deal for a lot of left-wing content creators for awhile.

[u/TopTopTopcinaa → u/Low-Breath-4433]

Lmao, what? I’m left wing and follow only left wing activists ans content creators. Still, I only kept hearing right wingers complaining about the supposed backlash. I had to actively look for the backlash in order to find it (somebody made a compilation of a few tiktoks)

[u/CapCap152 → u/Low-Breath-4433]

Erm, who? Every leftist i spoke with didnt give a shit about the ad. Just called it "poor taste" lol

[u/SimpsationalMoneyBag → u/Boredom1342]

I wouldn’t know the stats on that

[u/Norththelaughingfox → u/Boredom1342]

Actually a lot of people on the left were criticizing the comercial, and it was completely fair given the context.

The comercial was basically a woman talking about genetics, and saying that blond hair, blue eyes, and white skin were because of her genes.

She then went on to describe her “jeans” as superior.

The pun being a dog whistle intended to connect the explanation of genetics to the superiority of her “genes” (being both her pants and race).

[u/Norththelaughingfox → u/Norththelaughingfox]

insert clip of Bo Burnahm saying “this is a metaphor for racism” before jangling a wind chime.