• SchillMenaker [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    This whole fucking thing has reeked of manufactured outrage since the beginning. This ad firm is probably making millions of dollars in bonuses from milking in on both ends.

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      1 month ago

      Seems like the right wing in America loves purchasing pro-eugenics brands

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            1 month ago

            Absolutely not a bad thing. My issue is with giving oxygen to this obvious attempt at stoking culture war. Some shitty ad for some shitty clothing brand will never be as harmful as the army of psychos that Peter Thiel has running around and this kind of thing is literally meant to distract from the harm that they’re doing.

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              I think you are understimating humans ability to care about more than one thing at the same time. Also the issue with this ad is that besides the fact that is trying to normalize eugenics, it also set a new precedent for ads to start talking about genes like the Dunkin Donuts one. It was also defended by the white house itself which is trying to normalize eugenics itself.

              I don’t think that caring about the normalization of eugenics and calling out boycotts on companies and actors/models is a bad thing after the eugenics history of the USA in which all groups have been seen as subhuman except for whites.