Sydney Sweeney does an ad for jeans, media throws a hissy fit

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Chrkeller said:

zorg1000 said:

Yeah but like the post right before you points out, not a single democrat in office has come out and called this a racist/nazi ad.

Republicans have done a great job at convincing people that these vocal minority of online leftists represent the Democratic Party when it comes to culture war topics.

We saw this during the election last year when Republicans were able to label Democrats as caring more about trans people than other groups when Republicans talk about trans issues 1000x more than Democrats do.

Fully agreed.  Which is why, personal opinion, the strategy of democrats needs to be re-tooled.  How the left party thinks they are viewed and how they are actually viewed...  massive gap.  On the other side, the strategy for republicans is working.  Sure it is BS talking points...  but doesn't change the fact that it is working.  So I think we are aligned here, at least for the most part.  

Yeah a big problem is that the left in recent years has been really bad at not distancing themselves from the extremists in their own ranks, so you get the perception that the majority of the left is those raving blue haired crazies just cos those ones are the loudest and the more sensible ones never seem to call out or condemn the radicals.

In this case, I don't think any rational person equates a smoking hot girl in jeans with Nazism, yet this message gets blasted across the internet anyway because the media hands a megaphone to the crazies and immediately it becomes a left vs right thing and everyone starts fighting for their "side" instead of stopping for a moment to think "actually, this is fucking stupid".