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They Say Sydney Sweeney's Jeans Are Nazi Propaganda

Progressive voices found Nazi dog whistles in Sydney Sweeney's denim campaign while completely ignoring their own movement's actual eugenic history.

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Jul 28, 2025
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Sydney Sweeney caused a collective social media aneurysm this week, and all she had to do was wear some jeans and make a pun. The American Eagle campaign that launched Wednesday July 23rd, managed to transform a fairly standard celebrity endorsement into what critics are calling "Nazi propaganda." Because apparently we've reached the point where wordplay about denim is now grounds for invoking Godwin's Law.

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Look, providing a critique of what delusional GenZ progressives are freaking out about on TikTok isn't typically my thing, but this one really got under my skin. These flippant, irrational comparisons to Nazis aren't just ridiculous, they're offensive. First, they diminish the true atrocities that the Nazis committed against Jews and their allies, and this is not the time for that kind of historical trivialization. The fact that these people behave li…

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