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(NewsNation) — American Eagle has defended a arguable advertisement featuring Sydney Sweeney that led to backlash and allegations of promoting eugenics.
The covering marque responded connected Instagram, posting a photograph that said it was ever astir the jeans.
"We'll proceed to observe however everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way," the marque wrote.
The ad, successful which the blond-haired, blue-eyed Sweeney crosses retired the connection "jeans" and replaces it with "genes," spurred a backlash.
Critics of the advertisement suggested it was promoting eugenics, a signifier that attempts to usher reproduction to promote traits seen arsenic desirable successful the population.
Others compared it to 1930s Germany, wherever Nazis promoted an Aryan perfect of quality featuring blond hairsbreadth and bluish eyes arsenic the astir desirable traits.
The advertisement has also been likened to Calvin Klein's 1980 advertisement featuring Brooke Shields, which radical said sexualized the then-teenaged actress.
Defenders of the advertisement pushed backmost against the critiques, including Vice President JD Vance, who accused Democrats of being "hostile to basal American life."
