Intentionally stoked outrage for profit? Yes. Manufactured outrage? No, I genuinely get very pissed whenever evil fuckers try to push eugenics, something that always happens every few years in the scientific community and needs to get shot down every time lest people think the ideas hold any validity.

It's not about the ad, it's the normalization of a very cruel and dangerous ideology. Ignoring it is just letting it fester and become normal. I would understand if you personally didn't care, but the hostility is really frustrating. This post even got a troll who got removed by mods, so it's not like these ideas have no power for fascists.

The issue is not that she is in some sense factually incorrect. The issue is that this type of language has not been used since the mustache man, and fascists typically love to slowly move the narrative towards their ideology.

If someone said LeBron has good genes I wouldnt think they’re in favour of eugenics trying make an army of LeBrons although that would be badass and I would encourage that.

What you don't see is that once you accept publicly that some genetics are superior and preferred, you also silently acknowledge that some are inferior. Next step is to start asking what do we do to the inferior ones. Should we tolerate them holding us back? They cost us money and opportunities. They are in fact our enemies. Enemies must be removed to keep the pack strong. You know, we could put them into these camp sites and you don't need to know what happens in there.

This rhetoric moves slowly. It has to be opposed at every step.

I'd rather know that what she said wasn't eugenics propaganda than dismiss it outright like people here seem to do. There's nothing wrong with a lingerie hooker, but everything wrong with a eugenicist

Companies will love diversity when it gets them the most money. For entities that only respond to customers purchasing products, there is only virtue signaling, never any actual moral stances. If they think they can market to eugenicists openly in this political climate they will. Your money and their money are no different to them.

Is breast size genetic?

friggin Nazis

There's different ads. One of them has the quote in the post.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5487286/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-explained-why-controversy-racist-eugenics-trump-bathwater-ad-klein-statement

Edit: Oh, you thought OP was trying to discredit the criticism. I think we're all on the same page now.

And that makes things better how? She still gave a eugenics dog whistle for a company in an era of out and proud fascism. I'm sorry you can't hear a dog whistle, but the dogs and the people who know their playbook certainly do.

Often nobody believes them, they're just power tripping

A maga enthusiast made an ad about her great blue-eye genes that doubled as a jeans ad.

There's different versions of the ad that just talk about her genes suggesting she's attractive. Some people saw the latter and didn't see the former, so they think people are talking about the latter rather than the former.

None of this addresses the Epstein files being kept hidden.

A person made an AD that was based off a poor taste pun. Then a bunch of political activists doxxed the actress's voter registration information and comandeered the conversation making it a right/left thing. Then Trump then added fuel to the fire, which enabled everyone to double down on forcing an advertisement made in poor taste to inflate into psyop political conspiracy mania.

A denim ad where blonde hair blue eyed Sydney Sweeney says this while text reading "she has good jeans" flashes on screen. It's a huge dog whistle playing on eugenic ideas for laughs, allowing the ignorant and fascist alike to dismiss it as just a joke (which fascists like couch fucker were more than happy to do)

The ad execs published conversations they had with "syd." They asked explicitly if she was willing to "push the envelope" and she agreed that "they should go all the way lol."

Everyone involved in the ad absolutely knew it was a eugenics joke.