(That’s Sydney Sweeney, not the Australian city. Though the city is rather nice, some ways.)
You know you’ve struck the jugular when your opponents put maximum effort into denigrating you. The Sydney Sweeney / American Eagle ad continues to cause much weeping and gnashing of teeth among Leftists. A beautiful young white woman front and center in a jeans ad! With a pun about heredity! The very idea! Oh, what is this world coming to?!
To top it off, Sydney seems to be a genuine sweetie. Hard to beat that combination. Her handgun skills are just lagniappe.
But note this also: In “reply” to Sydney’s ad, a number of fat black women are parodying it! (For those who fancy themselves strong of stomach, here’s an example.) Never mind that such an ad is unlikely to sell jeans. The Left simply must respond to this thrust at the heart of “diversity, equity, and inclusion!” Not to do so might be taken as a tacit endorsement. Can’t have that.
(How long will it be before we have a Dylan Mulvaney ad in the collection? God only knows, and that’s probably for the best.)
I want to see this as a harbinger of things to come, but it’s “early days,” as the detectives in the C.S.O.’s British police procedurals regularly say. Will we be seeing white couples in American advertising again? Heterosexual white couples? Who knows? Still, the portents have elicited hope.
Politics, as Andrew Breitbart famously said, is downstream from culture. Culture isn’t confined to museums and Petri dishes. It’s in the air – and on the airwaves. To make an incursion into the culture takes courage, especially in the face of a shriekingly vicious opposition that’s had so much success at bending the culture to its whims. They have no compunctions about pursuing, denouncing, and destroying those who challenge them.
How’s your courage holding up? Are you “a creative?” Are you toying with some “countercultural” notions? Maybe thinking of incorporating them into a story, a song, a video? If you overcome your aversion to confrontation sufficiently to do so, you might want to offer a particle of credit to Sydney Sweeney for inspiring you.
Just an early-morning thought.
Apparently, Sydney Sweeney’s dog is a Nazi too:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14972575/Sydney-Sweeney-DOG-called-German-Shepherd-Nazi-pet.html