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in light of the recent sydney sweeney genes advertisement, the amount of people with genuine brains has just been painfully made apparent. i feel like any logical person watching the advertisement would have red flags raised; it's pretty clearly a dogwhistle. the emphasis on having "blue genes" (and factoring in her appearance as one, of the conventional beauty standard, and two, blonde and blue eyed) would be crazy at literally any time in history post-wwii, given the, you know, holocaust and other atrocities? it's especially concerning now in a time of (not unprecedented) levels of fascism and conservatism. i wonder why emphasizing that the woman in your advertisement is blonde and blue-eyed is a bad idea!! i've seen people argue that it's not a big deal at all and that people are just too woke, or whatever, but that's just so unbelievable to me. the main point of history is that nothing happens in vacuums; every war ever has had context behind it that set the stage for it to happen how it did. and this sort of normalization in popular media by massive companies with public figures is so sickening and a testament to how normalized this sort of thing has become. the other reactions (aside from people sharing my reaction of just immediate disgust) i've seen include knowing that the advertisement is weird, or saying that it feels weird, or something along those lines. i've seen lots of people online crack jokes about it and say that they felt uncomfortable, and this isn't as terrible as people saying that they see nothing wrong with it. i think it's just a reflection of how complacent we've got and how bad we are at forming connections now, since people Are recognizing this inherent discomfort to it, but they can't exactly place why it is that they feel that way. there's no moral or takeaway here. it's just really crazy to me how this stuff has become acceptable enough to be publicly posted in such a manner
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