No, Sydney Sweeney is not Adolf Hitler
Have you heard of this year’s meaningless summer controversy?
It concerns commercials by American Eagle for its pretty ordinary jeans line.
It stars Sydney Sweeney, whose existence was pretty much a mystery to me. When she was the guest host of “Saturday Night Live” last year, when she was announced, I went “Who?” The only Sydney I knew was my late father.
OK, she’s been nominated for an Emmy and worked in some series I never heard of, but, nevertheless, she is popular with Gen Z. Despite my lack of knowledge, I am almost certain she is not a Nazi. I’ll explain in a minute.
The commercials for American Eagle turn on the double entendre of the words “good jeans,” which the company is selling, and “good genes,” which the ads say she has. By that the commercials mean her good looks — blue eyes, (dark) blonde hair, high cheekbones, and cleavage.
For the woke, there are two burning issues, it seems. A double focus.
One is race.
The other is physical appearance, or what constitutes beauty.
Shortly after the commercials began, the Looney Left Keyboard Social Justice Warriors came pouring out of the hellish fringes of the internet. Like this jackass:
Every alert for any offense, even when it doesn’t exist, they discovered that Sweeney was offering up “Nazi propaganda.” Also “white nationalism,” and she knew it, says zellie, who’d have trouble finding his ass using both hands.
Judge the Nazi content for yourself by viewing the commercial.
Did it have you goose stepping? Were you hungry to take over Austria?
Before long, the internet presented an AI parody, that says it better than I can. This is very well done.
I hope you enjoyed that.
In addition to the commercial supposedly seig heiling fascism, (the CEO of American Eagle is Jewish), there was more magpie chatter about white supremacy, the patriarchy, capitalism, the oligarchy — the numbing mumbo jumbo lexicon of the bed-wetting Far Left. To its credit, American Eagle brushed off the speaking in tongues of the Far Left.
If we ever needed an example of seeing things through your own lens, this is it.
To the Loons, Sydney Sweeney is Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda.
Or maybe just a sexist tool of her corporate overlords, who revived a drooling definition of beauty we thought we had conquered, say the woke critics, probably conjuring up the good old days of a 81-year-old women in Sports Illustrated Swimwear, and obese Victoria’s Secret models.
I’m not being ageist, or body shaming. I’m old and overweight and know enough to decline a pictorial in Playgirl, assuming it still exists. Pick your shots.
You know, I could go on and on about how insanely stupid this is, but I’ll point to a Levi’s commercial in which Beyonce strips down to her Spanks in a laundromat. Please enjoy it here.
Anyone hear any complaints about that? No racial undertones detected? No glorification of blackness? Nothing from the woke? I wonder why. (Not really. I know why, and probably so do you.)
Companies know that sex sells, regardless of color, regardless of gender. Most people like looking at beauty, whether in art, architecture, nature, or people.
Sex in advertising is as American as Southern fried chicken.
Beautiful real women, like Sweeney and Beyonce, move merch.
Fake women, like Dylan Mulvaney, destroy merch. The joke’s on woke.
Stu Bykofsky’s work may be found at StuBykofsky.com, where this piece was originally published.
Stu,
Most people born after 1990 aren’t paying attention to this stuff anymore. There is a reason the Anti-Defamation League is wringing their hands, as they feel their power slipping away, and urgently warning that certain terms like “noticing” and “black fatigue” have been co-opted and are being “used by extremist groups in harmful ways.” Most suburban people born after 1990 are busy watching people like Ian Carroll analyze various topics and following the money. They don’t want to listen anymore to people telling them to hate themselves. Dopamine hits off of their phones are unfulfilling… they want to own a house, and build a life with meaning.
This manufactured “story” is just another lame attempt to sow chaos.
Where we might agree: the Federal takeover of D.C. Today the President rolled out a slogan: “You spit, and we hit.” Paraphrasing him [They weren’t allowed to do anything about it (the police)… well, now they can do whatever the hell they want.] Geez… that sounds awful especially coming from the President. HOWEVER, it is precisely what our puppet handlers want. All the so-called “adults in the room” spent two decades 1995-2015 resuscitating racism in the United States. By 2016, as Obama retreated for a spell, real racism was back. What soon followed into the mainstream, thanks to Zionist influencers like Soros and ABC and Disney executives, were insane ideas about gender fluidity and no cash bail which also served their purposes: more chaos, and further destruction of the traditional nuclear family structure.
Every time chaos and fear are established, authorities can then introduce solutions that centralizes power and erode more individual freedoms, presenting them as necessary for safety and order. FDR said “nothing to fear but fear itself.” Zionists push fear. By manipulating public fear—such as through increased crime, violence, or terrorism—governments can gain public support for expanded surveillance, military power, and security measures, ultimately leading to a loss of personal liberty. Now we have a President talking gleefully about beating hopelessly lost youth. The radio played garbage glorifying gangsters and murder and drug dealing, approved by mostly Zionist radio executives, and now we wonder why the D.C. youth act out the songs they memorized. As a nation we have real problems. A jeans/ genes commercial is the least of it. No one will argue that anything I wrote is a lie. It is just impolite, and uncomfortable to read. So they will attack the term “Zionists.” But look at the executives that push these garbage ideas in the media and on the radio – who are they? People are tired of these stupid manufactured conversations. Let’s start having real ones of substance.
What do “Zionists” have to do with find a person’s arse with both hands? Do Zionists have a map to their arse besides two hands? This is how serious conversations about real issues get hijacked. A commenter with a cause finds some hot topic issue, word or phrase and then desperately try to link the article’s point(s) of view to that totally irrelevant, extraneous point of view(s) of the commenter. Come on, people, this is supposed to be a serious social/political idea exchange forum.
George, the entire point is… this genes/ jeans controversy isn’t a serious topic. It’s designed to divide, and push drivel and chaos.
Why is it acceptable to reference “Adolf Hitler” in the headline and to mention Nazis, yet if a commentator uses “Zionist” in the comments… wait, wait, wait, somehow that’s a red line? Get over yourself.
What do all the executives at ABC and Disney and George Soros have in common? It is not being culturally Jewish, btw. They are loud and proud Zionists (and in my opinion scumbags, too.) They wrap themselves up proudly in the Zionist label… but if you point that out to anyone… then it is racist? It is not an attack on Jewish people – it is a long overdue critique on a select group of culturally Jewish people – they are Zionists (and communists, too.) If you can’t discern the difference, that is your pathetic problem. People like me don’t care at all anymore about the lame tactic of crying about “race cards” and not being nice to people blatantly trying to destroy our society.
Zionists are the ones that control Page Six, they control Big Corp boardrooms that pushed ESG and all this DEI stuff. The innocent fools ran with it. That’s how this all works. They have written extensively about it. Here are their basic steps:
1. Control Healthcare: “Control healthcare and you control the people.” The idea is that by centralizing healthcare, the government gains significant influence over individuals’ lives.
2. Increase Poverty: “Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you provide everything for them to live.” This suggests creating dependency through economic hardship.
3. Increase Debt: “Increase the national debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.” This step implies using debt to justify higher taxes, further impoverishing people.
4. Gun Control: “Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.” This claims disarming citizens enables authoritarian control.
5. Welfare: “Take control of every aspect of their lives (food, livestock, housing, and income).” This suggests expanding welfare to make people dependent on the state.
6. Education: “Take control of what people read and listen to; take control of what children learn in school.” This implies shaping ideology through control of information and education.
7. Religion: “Remove faith in God from the government and schools.” The goal is to replace religious belief with reliance on the state.
8. Class Warfare: “Divide the people into the wealthy against the poor. Racially divide. This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor.” This step aims to create social division to justify redistributive policies.
Btw, here is a list of a few very excellent religious Jewish people, great and true patriots, that contributed to the United States of America in great ways:
Haym Salomon (1740–1785) – Financier of the American Revolution, a Polish-born Jewish immigrant, played a critical role in raising funds for the Continental Army.
Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745–1816) – Often called the “Patriot Rabbi” as the hazzan (cantor) of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, Seixas was a prominent Jewish leader during the Revolutionary War. He drafted a prayer for peace in 1776 and supported the American cause, advocating for religious tolerance.
David Levy Yulee (1810–1886) – Politician. Yulee was the first Jewish person to serve in the U.S. Congress (1841) and as a U.S. Senator from Florida (1845–1851, 1855–1861)