American Eagle is in full-on crisis mode after their “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign was met by swift public backlash as critics accused the ad of invoking eugenics. Today, the clothing company finally put out a statement explaining the campaign’s original aim: American Eagle is clarifying that their Sydney Sweeney ad was only intended to make people masturbate. […]


Context: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/why-sydney-sweeney-s-good-jeans-campaign-is-being-compared-to-nazism-20250729-p5mikz.html

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    What is ableist about what I said, exactly?

    I think it’s more that you’re mad you jerked it to a girl with down syndrome being taken advantage of by fascists and media

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      6 days ago

      Man, if you don’t even have the self-awareness to see what you just wrote, then there is no point in talking to you.

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        6 days ago

        No, it’s rather that YOU are ableist against people with down syndrome and projected that onto my words. Now when asked what exactly is ableist, you can’t say - because it was you projecting.

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            6 days ago

            I accept that you cannot make a valid refutation or good faith argument (have been unable to do so 3x now) and have lost this debate.