{"id":2468625,"date":"2025-07-30T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calling-sydney-sweeney-ad-racist-is-why-no-one-trusts-media\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:46:03","slug":"calling-sydney-sweeney-ad-racist-is-why-no-one-trusts-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calling-sydney-sweeney-ad-racist-is-why-no-one-trusts-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Sydney Sweeney Ad &#8216;Racist&#8217; Is Why No One Trusts Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalling-sydney-sweeney-ad-racist-is-why-no-one-trusts-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2468625&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the controversy sparked by American Eagle&#8217;s recent advertising campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney, an attractive white actress, too promote their &#8220;great jeans&#8221; clothing line through a pun on her &#8220;great genes.&#8221; Some media outlets and commentators criticized the campaign, accusing it of promoting &#8220;Nazi propaganda,&#8221; eugenics, white supremacy, and racist undertones due to its reference to biological genetics. Critics linked the phrase &#8220;good genes&#8221; to historical eugenics movements and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/east-coast-universities-conduct-anti-racist-audit-in-libraries\/\" title=\"East Coast Universities Conduct \u2018Anti-... Audit\u2019 In Libraries\">white supremacist ideologies<\/a>, while others perceived the ad as reflecting broader cultural issues such as a shift toward whiteness and conservatism in American society.<\/p>\n<p>supporters of the campaign argue that the backlash is exaggerated and politically motivated, emphasizing that the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >ad simply celebrates natural beauty<\/a> and appeals to American Eagle&#8217;s core Gen Z female audience.the article highlights that while the media focuses on alleged racist implications, a more relevant conversation might address the sexualization of women in marketing, as Sweeney is known for her sexualized roles and products. The campaign is also praised by some as a pushback against &#8220;woke&#8221; marketing trends exemplified by other brands&#8217; controversial ads.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the piece suggests that most Americans are unlikely to read so deeply into the ad&#8217;s pun and that the media&#8217;s critiques reflect ongoing culture wars rather than the public&#8217;s general perception. The campaign has generated significant social media engagement, with supporters welcoming a return to promoting &#8220;biological truth&#8221; and customary beauty standards.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Propaganda media outlets went berserk after an attractive white woman modeled in American Eagle advertisements and called it &ldquo;Nazi propaganda,&rdquo; a reflection of a &ldquo;fractured American culture,&rdquo; a promotion for &ldquo;eugenics,&rdquo; and even flagged it as &ldquo;racist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Media outlets are criticizing the prominent clothing brand for pushing &ldquo;extremist&rdquo; politics by advertising the attractive and famous Sydney Sweeney&rsquo;s &ldquo;great genes.&rdquo; American Eagle uses the play on words to promote the company&rsquo;s &ldquo;great jean&rdquo; clothing line while simultaneously using Sweeney&rsquo;s natural beauty to merely communicate she is attractive.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney, the modern-day&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/sydney-sweeney-debuting-a-bob-was-not-on-my-oscars-bingo-card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marilyn Monroe<\/a>, is known for her sexual roles in <em>Euphoria<\/em> and <em>The<\/em> <em>White Lotus<\/em> and for her controversial soap line that contains her bathwater, calling the audience &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/sydney-sweeney-will-sell-you-her-old-bathwater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dirty little boys<\/a>&rdquo; in the advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>American Eagle&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeo-inc.com\/2024\/10\/01\/rivet-young-at-heart-how-american-eagle-became-gen-zs-favorite-brand-for-jeans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> they are &ldquo;the No. 1 jeans brand for women overall&rdquo; with a core customer base of Gen Z women ages 15-25. The company has a history working with other celebrities in Gen Z shows like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeo-inc.com\/2021\/12\/13\/nylon-chase-stokes-has-some-holiday-gift-suggestions-for-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chase Stokes<\/a>&nbsp;from <em>Outer Banks<\/em> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeo-inc.com\/2023\/06\/28\/teen-vogue-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-star-lola-tung-talks-back-to-school-fashion-and-her-new-campaign-with-american-eagle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lola Tung<\/a>&nbsp;from <em>The Summer I Turned Pretty<\/em>. Sweeney is no different.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the new American Eagle ads, Sweeney pays an ode to basic biology,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans-rcna221478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a>, &ldquo;Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to an &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1950198687344288224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expert<\/a>&rdquo; on <em>Good Morning America<\/em>, the campaign highlighting a beautiful woman&rsquo;s biological genetics is comparable to &ldquo;white supremacy&rdquo; and &ldquo;eugenics&rdquo; during slavery.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The pun &ndash; &lsquo;good jeans&rsquo; &ndash; activates troubling historic associations for this country,&rdquo; Professor Robin Landa said. &ldquo;The American eugenics movement &hellip; weaponized the idea of good genes to justify white supremacism.&rdquo; (Notably, it&rsquo;s&nbsp;Democrats and the media who have a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/republicans-block-another-vote-ivf-protections-harris-makes-2024-issue-rcna171463\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">history<\/a> of pushing technology like IVF, which was started by a member of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/eugenic-legacy-nobel-ivf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eugenics<\/a>&nbsp;society,&nbsp;and literally allows&nbsp;adults to select &ldquo;desired characteristics&rdquo; for children created in a lab.)<\/p>\n<p>An MSNBC&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad-whiteness-rcna221630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opinion&nbsp;<\/a>article says &ldquo;scrutiny&rdquo; over the campaign is justified and reflects &ldquo;our own crumbling and fractured American culture that made [the campaign] possible in the first place.&rdquo;&nbsp;The piece goes on to smear the ad for reflecting an&nbsp;&ldquo;unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness, conservatism, and capitalist exploitation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The MSNBC article&nbsp;also claims the internet &ldquo;condemn[s] the advertisement as noninclusive at best and as overtly promoting &lsquo;white supremacy&rsquo; and &lsquo;Nazi propaganda&rsquo; at worst.&rdquo; &ldquo;The internet&rdquo; also tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sydney-sweeney-misinterpretations-maga-hats-moms-birthday-2023-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cancel<\/a> Sweeney in 2023 for MAGA-inspired hats seen at her mom&rsquo;s birthday party that said &ldquo;Make Sixty Great Again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Although the company received backlash from comments saying they are &ldquo;no longer shopping at AE,&rdquo; they also received plenty of support for the marketing move that promotes actual &ldquo;women&rdquo; who are actually &ldquo;pretty,&rdquo; as one comment&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DMdIuUoRYAL\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=14df777a-f70f-4240-b21e-2898df397da8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&rsquo;s no backlash. There&rsquo;s just fat, ugly libs who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-week-in-campus-insanity-vol-39\/\" title=\"This Week in Campus Insanity Vol. 39\">hate white people<\/a> all having a meltdown. The word for that is &ldquo;hilarious,&rdquo; not &ldquo;backlash.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QejVaIK1GX\">https:\/\/t.co\/QejVaIK1GX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1950198872078246112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Washington Post&rsquo;s Shane O&rsquo;Neil said when he first heard &ldquo;Sydney Sweeney has great jeans&rdquo;&nbsp;he thought of the Department of Homeland Security posting a &ldquo;racist painting&rdquo; of American history that he says promoted &ldquo;a gigantic blonde buxom woman chasing away Native people to make way for White settlers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>This is an actual paragraph published by the Washington Post, in which one of the Post&#8217;s style writers seems to suggest American Eagle&#8217;s Sydney Sweeney ad campaign is actually a racist DHS dog whistle. <\/p>\n<p>Really great journalism, guys! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J0pBWJjMFg\">pic.twitter.com\/J0pBWJjMFg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Elle Purnell (@_ellepurnell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_ellepurnell\/status\/1949918721742688374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;For the past five or six years, it seemed like fashion and pop culture were very interested in &mdash; even dedicated to &mdash; body positivity,&rdquo; The Washington Post&rsquo;s Rachel Tashjian said in the discussion&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/2025\/07\/28\/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>. &ldquo;Now we&rsquo;re being fed a lot of images of thinness, whiteness, and unapologetic wealth porn.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, most Americans are unlikely to think this hard about an ad featuring a common pun and an attractive television star.&nbsp;When it comes to hearing the biological term &ldquo;genes,&rdquo;&nbsp;they probably don&rsquo;t jump to discussing the &ldquo;crumbling and fractured American culture&rdquo; like the woke media and the chronically online do.&nbsp;There&rsquo;s a reason people&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted<\/a> for restoring &ldquo;biological truth,&rdquo; recognizing &ldquo;male&rdquo; and &ldquo;female,&rdquo; and bringing health back in America.&nbsp;Meanwhile, corporate media outlets still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-politics-and-policy\/sarah-mcbride-state-firsts-documentary-congress-transgender-delaware-rcna209600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refuse to acknowledge basic biology<\/a>&nbsp;in their reporting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A more relevant discussion about the Sweeney advertisements might point out the fact that women are overly sexualized and porn is intertwined with American marketing.&nbsp;But that&rsquo;s not a conversation media outlets seem particularly interested in having. Instead, they jumped right to accusing it of being &ldquo;Nazi&rdquo; and &ldquo;racist.&rdquo;&nbsp;Nonetheless, many people&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LadyGravemaster\/status\/1948789222539718859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">praise<\/a> the American Eagle campaign for ending &ldquo;woke&rdquo; marketing strategies pushed by brands like Calvin Klein,&nbsp;which featured an ad&nbsp;showing a &ldquo;pregnant man&rdquo; for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nbc24.com\/news\/nation-world\/pregnant-trans-man-featured-in-calvin-klein-mothers-day-commercial-draws-backlash-roberto-bete-transgender-instagram-motherhood-outkick-alejandro-avila-steven-crowder-intolerance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mother&rsquo;s Day commercial<\/a>&nbsp;in 2022.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The YUGE difference in a Calvin Klein ad and an American Eagle ad. Which one are you choosing? <\/p>\n<p>Go woke. Go broke. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8oIAu6v8cW\">pic.twitter.com\/8oIAu6v8cW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sassafrass_84\/status\/1950195400519893311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>At the time of publication, American Eagle&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/explore\/tabs\/trending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trends<\/a> across social media platforms, receiving more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/americaneagle\/reels\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">engagement and views<\/a>&nbsp;than their recent marketing tactics on other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its sensual undertones, the American Eagle campaign is refreshing &mdash; because it showcases a healthy woman promoting&nbsp;reality.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Abigail Nichols is a correspondent for The Federalist. She was previously the opinion editor for the University of South Florida&#8217;s student newspaper, The Oracle. She is now working as the business manager at the University of North Florida&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-downplay-motives-of-alien-charged-with-attacking-jews\/\" title=\"Media Downplay Motives Of Alien Charged With Attacking Jews\">student-run media outlet<\/a>, Spinnaker Media, while obtaining a Master&#8217;s Degree in Social work.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media outlets slammed American Eagle ad as &#8220;Nazi propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3849,"featured_media":2468626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-29-160857.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5157,32490,47267,50526,42917],"class_list":["post-2468625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-journalism","tag-media-bias","tag-public-trust","tag-racism-2","tag-sydney-sweeney"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-29-160857.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468629,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468625\/revisions\/2468629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2468626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}