Posted on 08/04/2025 4:38:24 PM PDT by texas booster
When American Eagle released a cheeky new jeans ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney, the message was simple: she’s a natural beauty, and American Eagle jeans highlight that. But instead of taking it at face value, critics on the Left exploded, calling the ad “racist,” “eugenic,” and even comparing it to Nazi propaganda.
On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson breaks down the absurdity of the outrage and exposes the real history of eugenics—hint: it doesn’t come from the Right.
“ We have all sorts of models that pose for jean commercials. American Eagle have had black women, people, Hispanics, everybody. And do you remember the ad by Levi's for Beyonce? Levi's has her portrayed with a cowboy hat, a yellow wig, and in a country-western setting with Levi jeans. … Nobody objected, nobody said, ‘Beyonce is objectifying whiteness because, as an African American, she's got a blond wig on.’”
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(0:00) Sydney Sweeney’s Good Jeans/Genes Ad
(0:27) Left's Outrage
(0:33) Other Examples of Jean Commercials
(3:05) The Essence of Advertising and Classical Beauty
(4:28) Historical Context of Eugenics
(5:53) Final Thoughts on Beauty and Proportion
Perfect symmetry. Whooo, boy. He goes there. With tongue in cheek and a smile. Worth your 8 minutes or so.
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Yes. The left is jealous that their lives are not inherently lucky in life. They want unearned advantages.
The left is ugly inside and out. Of course they hate beauty.
Dylan Mulvaney as spokes-”PERSON” for Bud Light generated some kind of “symmetry”, but it was all forced and fake. Haven’t heard much of anything from either Bud Light or Dylan in a while now.
Could there be another factor at work here?
Put a black woman with vitiligo in that commercial and all would be ok.
You could have a black woman twerking, and it still would be ok.
Maybe if the white woman is fat, could you get away with this. If she’s lesbo of course - then she could make the most crude sexual comments too and that also would be fine.
Just don’t put a Barbie on TV and say that’s pretty. That’s not allowed!
Barbie is racist, sexist, objectifies women.
I didn’t find Sweeney beautiful but she is lean and the ghettopotami don’t like that.
Pretty much where we are at!
An attractive young white lady. The only worse in their eyes is a strong young white man. This is racial discrimination, by definition.
she’s attractive in an accessible way, girl next door type. And yes, she has a very fit proportioned looking body
And it wasn’t a black woman, that’s what they’re mad about. How dare they show a white woman in a advert.
That is why they encourage women to get tattoos and piercings.
As an aside, folks have forever said that a person's face reveals who they are. If they are loving and happy, they smile. If they are grumpy and angry, it shows.
A person's character eventually comes to the surface.
Angry=Ugly
Loving=Pretty
Correct.
Boom.:-)
Get your leftist epithets correct Dr. Hanson.
“ 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.””
“You know you shouldn’t be painting boobies on my airplanes - but if you do, don’t make ‘em lopsided!”
They had convinced and cowed people into " be nice" and "its my genetics " crap, instead of putting down the straw and gravy boat.
They be Mad as the king in " the kings new clothes" when the little boy said " the king is naked".
but now its " are you pregnant or just really fat? ".. lol. Babes are back!!!
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