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The campaign has been linked to Eugenics and Nazi ideology Sydney Sweeney is no stranger to controversial ads. In recent history, she has sold us her bathwater and in 2024, skincare lovers expressed discomfort about her advertisement with a skincare brand, in which the words “bouncy and firm” were plastered across her chest rather than, y’know, near her face. Now, she’s back in hot water with the campaign for American Eagle that has been called out as a “conservative dog whistle” and with headlines on Newsweek like “Sydney Sweeney Fronts Ad Campaign for Jeans – Sparks Debate About Eugenics.” The...

If the far-Left’s attack on actress Sydney Sweeney’s new ad for American Eagle isn’t the most intellectually embarrassing event of the year, it must be close.The blonde, blue-eyed beauty pitches the company’s jeans. Because the ads importune viewers to buy “good jeans” by playing on the idea of “good genes,” Sweeney is guilty of promoting “whiteness,” “white supremacy,” and, of course, “Nazi propaganda.”Presumably we are to believe that Sweeney, who appeared in the hysterical leftist dystopian TV program The Handmaid’s Tale, now advocates Aryan racial purity, with a little Lebensraum thrown in. Madness, yes. But the Left never lets a...

Not only is this New York Times op-ed insulting to black people, it’s historically illiterate. It does accomplish the catchy soundbite initiative, which was probably the objective here, but it’s beyond laughable. Behold, folks, we’re in the ‘Juan Crow’ era. That’s right—enforcing generations of immigration laws is now ‘Juan Crow.’ I mean, if you can get through this insanity, power to you: In its merciless pursuit of people without papers — most of them Latino — and its demonization of asylum seekers, refugees, holders of temporary protected status, Muslims and Palestinian rights activists, the Trump administration is accelerating toward a...