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Reluctantly, I Add My Two Cents to the World-Historic Sydney Sweeney Discourse

Posted on | July 30, 2025 | Comments Off on Reluctantly, I Add My Two Cents to the World-Historic Sydney Sweeney Discourse

This seemed like it was going to be one of those weird social-media episodes that would get a few laughs and disappear before I could be bothered to write about it, but then ABC’s Good Morning America felt the need to weigh in on the Sydney Sweeney Nazi Jeans Scandal, and so here we are, on a Wednesday, still talking about it.

Making a sophomoric double-entendre — “jeans”/“genes” — American Eagle employed This Year’s It Girl to promote their product: “Great jeans,” get it? And were it not for the fact that Donald Trump is president and half of our fellow citizens are in a state of panic-stricken hysteria, this not-remotely-clever ad campaign would never have become such a thing as to attract scrutiny from Major National News Organizations. But the same deranged mentality that justified baseball taking the All-Star Game out of Atlanta because Joe Biden called their election law “Jim Crow 2.0” continues to prevail among the kind of people who voted for Kamala Harris, so I find myself on a Wednesday being compelled to comment on an advertising campaign for overpriced blue jeans.

YOU PEOPLE NEED TO GET A GRIP!
GO OUTSIDE AND TOUCH GRASS ONCE IN A WHILE!

Excuse me for shouting, but there is actual important news that I would much rather be commenting about, were it not for the major media pandering to the psychiatric foibles of neurotic leftists and thereby forcing me to express my opinions regarding Sydney Sweeney and her unusually large, pendulous breasts. Stop twisting my arm, guys.

Sydney Sweeney is “ugly and startling”? What?

The internet has been quick to condemn the advertisement as noninclusive at best and as overtly promoting “white supremacy” and “Nazi propaganda” at worst. These critics point to the copy and the implication of calling a white person superior because of their genes. . . .
The advertisement, the choice of Sweeney as the sole face in it and the internet’s reaction reflect an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness, conservatism and capitalist exploitation. Sweeney is both a symptom and a participant.

DO YOU NEED ME TO START SHOUTING AGAIN?
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

Deep breaths. Calming down now. What this reminds me of is how, during the height of the 2020 George Floyd Summer of Love, there were a lot of SJW types promoting concepts of “structural racism” and “systemic oppression,” so that traits like good grammar and punctuality were condemned as symbolic expressions of white supremacy. And this is supposed to help black people how? Stigmatizing good behavior as “racist” was unlikely to have the effect that progressives imagined. Plenty of people after hearing such claims might reasonably conclude that if, e.g., showing up for work on time is “white supremacy,” then maybe white supremacy isn’t so bad after all. But even if they didn’t reach that conclusion, you’re still not helping matters by making such far-fetched accusations of white supremacy, as in Aesop’s fable of the boy who cried “wolf.” If you run around calling everybody a Nazi, nobody’s going to pay attention to you if you ever do succeed in finding an actual Nazi.

It has been pointed out, by the way, that the CEO of American Eagle is Jay Schottenstein, who is most certainly not a Nazi. In fact — it should not be necessary to say this, but it’s 2025 — you’re not endorsing Nazism, or white supremacy, or eugenics, merely by acknowledging the hereditary nature of such traits as blue eyes, blonde hair and enormous gazongas.

Jeff Goldstein: “Genes are a real thing. It’s ok to acknowledge them. Heredity isn’t Nazi.” Where did anyone ever get the idea that simply recognizing biological reality — children resemble their parents — is some kind of dangerous “hate speech”? What really inspires these hysterical denunciations of Sydney Sweeney? Is it mere ignorance, or is it some kind of emotional disturbance rooted in envy and insecurity?

We may have reached Peak Godwin’s Law this week, and I would hope that the Serious Journalism People are so embarrassed by this that they will re-think their life choices and repent of their sins. As for me, it’s Wednesday, so I’ve got to get working on the Anschluss before I demand the Sudetenland, and I think you know what comes next.



 

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