Sydney Sweeney Gaslights America

After a string of box office failures, Sydney Sweeney managed to say she's "against hate" but still declines to condemn white supremacy while insisting upon “unity” when criticized for it.

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After a string of box office failures, Sydney Sweeney managed to say she’s “against hate” but still declines to condemn white supremacy while insisting upon “unity” when criticized for it.

Months after the June controversy of her “great jeans” ad, Sweeney finally managed to vocal fry-baby voice slur that she is “against hate and divisiveness.”

Finally! But wait.

“Anyone who knows me knows that I’m always trying to bring people together. I’m against hate and divisiveness,” Sweeney said to People magazine in an interview published on December 5th. “In the past my stance has been to never respond to negative or positive press but recently I have come to realize that my silence regarding this issue has only widened the divide, not closed it. So I hope this new year brings more focus on what connects us instead of what divides us.”

So wait. What? Did we miss the denouncement of white supremacy?

Sydney Sweeney promotes her new movie "The Housemaid”, screen capture from her Instagram

Maybe it was in this vague, blame-shifting statement: “I don’t support the views some people chose to connect to the campaign. Many have assigned motives and labels to me that just aren’t true.”

What is so hard about directly condemning white supremacy?

After all of these months, there is only one answer to that question: Sydney Sweeney does not want to denounce white supremacy. We don’t know why, but we do know that she has been given multiple opportunities and she has declined to denounce it each time. It’s fair to say the case is now closed.

If you’re wondering why she bothered at all, given her struggles with communicating outside of suggestively vague PR and tight corsets — which, to be fair, she wears very well— the interview was part of her promotion for an upcoming film and she really needs the audience to pay to see this one.

“… when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear”

After appearance at Jeff Bezo’s wedding and successfully selling her dirty bathwater soap, Sweeney starred in an American Eagle “Great Jeans” ad that played on her blonde hair/blue-eyed “genes”. The problem was, this ad played as Elon Musk was decimating and plundering the United States for Donald Trump in the name of Project 2025 authoritarianism.

A few accounts on Twitter complained that it subtly promoted eugenics or white supremacy, and the Right took that to their Church of Imaginary Persecution to assert that the Left were all ugly women who were jealous of Sweeney, because these men childishly can’t imagine a woman not seeking their attention. They do not understand that some women do not want their gaze, let alone their desire. This obtuseness is reflected in their support for an adjudicated rapist.

The media loves to blame the Left for the Right’s hysteria, and this was no different. They sneered at the Left’s (silly) outrage, but data says the controversy was a “conservative media creation”.

The backlash was fueled by conservative amplification of liberal critiques and online trolling. If MAGA conservatives can’t fight a made-up culture war, what do they have? Not much, it turns out. After all, grocery prices are worse, healthcare costs are skyrocketing thanks to Trump’s Big Betrayal Bill, and Trump’s tariffs represent a sly tax burden shift from the very top to everyone else.

But ironically, the problem for Sweeney came in the aftermath of the mostly fake Eugenics scandal, as her response to it found her unwilling to denounce white supremacy as Trump’s thugs violently kidnapped women, children and the elderly off the streets of America.

In an interview, she swooned over Trump tweeting about the ad and refused to respond to the eugenics accusation:

Stoeffel: I mean, Trump tweeted about the jeans ad ... that just seems like a very crazy moment...

Sweeney: It was surreal.

Stoeffel: The risk is that there’s a chance that somebody will get some idea about what you think about certain issues ... Do you worry about that?

Sweeney: No.

Stoeffel: The criticisms were that maybe white people shouldn’t joke about genetic superiority ... I just wanted to allow you to talk about that specifically.

Sweeney: I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.

It was such a Trumpian ‘good people on both sides’ answer that the very conservative Daily Wire praised her for being “cool.” The Spectator asked if she were the “heroine” of the “anti-woke age.”

This is when the Left began loudly criticizing her refusal to denounce support for eugenics.

Still, she was silent.