By Eric Le Roy
The latest controversy ignited by the Social Justice Warriors in America concerns an intensely desirable model named Sidney Sweeney, who simply exercised her constitutional right to showcase herself in a set of photos, with the slogan being “Sidney Sweeney has great jeans.” Of course, ‘jeans’ became a dirty word when Sweeney, only playfully in my view, used it as a play on words with ‘genes’.
OMG.
That ad launched a frothing Left Wing reaction, punctuated with cries of ‘fascist racism’ by hysterics on social media – frantic accusations that Sidney Sweeney (and American Eagle) support Nazi style ‘Eugenics’.
Yes, Sidney Sweeney – an unusually winsome but otherwise typical girl from Spokane, Washington, is now an Aryan fascist because, supposedly, the hidden message behind ‘jeans’ is ‘genes’, meaning that she, Sidney, has great (‘superior?’) ones, which she indeed has. But so does LeBron James. So did Muhammad Ali. Nevertheless, despite this general distribution of genes (good in some, not so good in others), the Far Left Woke turned on their Racism Radar and detected…..that’s correct, the Third Reich. Sidney Sweeney is a White Supremacist.
It is not the first time (maybe the thousandth?) that I have heard voices from the Left cry “Nazi!” at the drop of a hat. It seems that anybody who rejects Woke directives is some kind of Hitler-worshipping ghoul. Now let’s be fair. The Right Wing is not above using terms of negativity to categorize their ideological enemies. Still, it is becoming more and more apparent that the Left, officially represented by proven losers (Walsh, Sanders, Warren, etc., and now such ‘Showtime’ heffers as Ocasio-Cortez and Jasmine Crockket –as well as the governors of failed Blue states and the mayors of failed Blue citues – due little else than ham it up with goofy actions and epithets instead of constructing reasonable arguments.
OK, so let’s clarify the thing about genes. First, people have them. And guess what, some people are born (blessed, as it were) with better genes than others, depending on what you are looking for. In the world of sports, with which I am very familiar, genes matter a great deal. A professional male athlete marries a professional female athlete, and the result is almost invariably an athletically gifted son or daughter. It is NOT political, subject to cries of Aryan superiority, especially when, in the case of people like LeBron James (whose son is a pro basketball player) and Joe Bryant, former NBA players and father of the late Kobe Bryant, the dominant genes happen to have been found in Black people. What a coincidence.
Moreover, these days one hears constantly of women trying to find suitable men with ‘good genes’ to father their children. And that’s OK, right? Or is it somehow political? Well, that would depend on what agenda you are promoting, right?
Let me be clear about one thing. I personally am not registered as anything; I have never voted a straight ticket in my life. I was a big fan of the Kennedy brothers. I supported Bill Clinton during the blowjob days. I thought Obama was a good idea. But times have changed. The Left – the Democratic party – is now overrun with Woke nutjobs, and I am not buying into it. The Sidney Sweeney thing is just the latest.
I am weary of the double standard the Left would impose, permitting themselves the same ‘thought cleansing’ and indeed censorship that they accuse others of indulging. For example, a black ‘influencer’ (who goes by the name Lizzo) posed her ample attractions in denims and declared, “My genes are black.” But, predictably, while blonde, blue-eyed Sidney is cast as racist and fascist, Lizzo’s entirely race-motivated behavior is not condemned. The beautiful Beyonce, now a blond-haired country music singer, also made a Sidney follow-up with herself in denims. Not bad, girl, not bad. But isn’t there a bit of ‘cultural appropriation’ going on here? Do you hear the Woke calling Beyoncé to heel? Hell, No. Because, you see, that’s the double standard. Minorities – as ‘victims’ – are allowed to say things that would get white people cancelled, fired from their jobs, or expelled from tenure at university.
Blatant antisemitism is fine if you are a “From the River to the Sea’ demonstrator. White people can be subjected to ‘sensitivity training’ (what a tidy little term), and, while any sort of affront, real or imagined, by white people (the police routinely are singled out) against a black person receives a fusillade of media coverage, when the reverse is true, the story is usually ignored, buried, or downplayed. And intelligent, unbiased people notice. Why do you suppose the mainstream media is now no longer trusted, even vilified, by so many Americans? Because it deserves to be. The media covered up Biden’s descent into Deep Confusion, and it promoted a fake narrative about Russian influence on the 2016 election –one which was generated by Obama and Hillary Clinton, and now, years later, exposed for what it was.
It is this same double standard that is used when it comes to race.
You see, in the World of Woke and the Land of a Thousand Genders, just being a white heterosexual basketball star like Caitlin Clark or a beautiful female model (Sidney) can get you in trouble if you don’t bend over backwards to accommodate ‘progressive’ thinking. The least little thing can provoke ugly accusations of racism, sexism, and all the ‘phobics’ in the Woke arsenal.
Argue all you want, but this is one point where I refuse to back down. In recent years, we have witnessed the glorification of overweight women. They have appeared in beauty competitions and won; they have adorned the pages of magazines promoting ‘beauty’. Likewise, we are seeing transgender individuals emerge as objects of great ‘beauty’; I have read where some will be featured in the next Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Nowadays, ‘Blackness’ is celebrated with full force, accentuating physical characteristics (lips, noses, hair, etc.) which are common among black people and which used to be scorned. Now they are officially ‘beautiful’; now, their nature-given attributes are fashionable. So fashionable in fact that there is a select group of progressive white women who are willing to inject chemicals into their posteriors to expand the volume of the cheeks, thereby – in their minds – making them more ‘black’. Talk about cultural appropriation !! But it doesn’t make them black. It makes them white women with gargantuan asses.
Frankly, I think it’s fine to celebrate diversity in men and women alike. Fine, as long as it simply reflects the natural beauty of such people without turning it into a political war. The reason is very simple: beauty is subjective, and many humans are beautiful. The problem is when it provokes ideological warfare, as everything seems to do these days. And this is why the genes-jeans uproar is absurd. If an advertisement like that makes you think of Nazis and Aryan Eugenics, you need a therapist.
When I was in Moscow, I gave English lessons to a Muslim woman from Chechnya. She was a dressmaker specializing in the Islamic style (not miniskirts or bikinis, I assure you). Her plan was to learn enough English to visit the shops in Dubai and try to convince the proprietors to display them. She dressed in the traditional Islamic garb, including a black shawl, but one that left her face exposed. So why am I telling you this?
Because she was beautiful. Any doubts I might have had about the pulchritude of Arabic women vanished. I saw another one like her in Turkey, on Prince’s Island, across the pond from Istanbul. My wife and I were approaching her up a slight ridge, and I noticed her. She was a mature woman, and her profile was like bronze perfection. Put a frame around that and hang it in a museum, and you would have had a masterpiece. But as we neared her, she did something that will always stay in my mind. An Islamic woman, right? No naughtiness, no playing around, right? So suddenly she raised her arms and took a long, luxurious drag off her cigarette. That immortalized her in my eyes. She became human, not a separate statuesque handmaiden of Allah. The woman impressed me; the Marlboro between her fingers aroused me. She was all woman.
On the trip back, I went out to the edge of the ferry where I could smoke, and I came up next to a young Islamic couple. The guy was dressed in regular summer gear, but his young wife was decked out in the whole Muslim tradition, including a piece of cloth that hid her face entirely. But somehow, I knew she was beautiful. You see, she had a bag of Doritos and was feeding the seagulls that flew up next to the edge of the boat. And when her slender arm was extended, I could see, OMG, a tattoo on her shoulder. Just another wonderful young bride who probably knew exactly how to please her husband in the sack. Scheherazade.
Islamophobia? You really think so?
I teach Chinese students online. I never dated an Asian woman, and, truth be told, I rarely saw one I would have wanted to chase down the street. Not that I found them undesirable; they just didn’t ring my bell the way Slavic women from Russia and Ukraine do. Or certain Mediterranean women. Most of the Chinese girls I saw were at All-You-Can-Eat buffet restaurants in the US. The distinguishing feature of these girls was that they never smiled. But now that I see Chinese people every day, I begin to understand the specific magic of some of the women. Elegant, refined. And the population didn’t get to 1.4 billion by playing video games. On top of everything else, some of them have a great sense of humor. You just have to get to know them. ‘Genes’ are not a factor.
So, you see, beauty appreciation is an acquired taste. I live now in Bulgaria, and while I have not yet found one who is completely hypnotic, I am beginning to see even here, as everywhere else, that there are certain prototype faces that repeat themselves and, at their best, climb the Tree of Beauty. In other words, some faces are totally English, totally Italian, totally American, etc. And don’t try to say I am profiling or stereotyping. It’s that each unique mould (the death mask, as it were) is too visible and repetitive to miss. Many male English faces are the spitting image of Wayne Rooney, the former Manchester United footballer. Some of them put you in mind of Churchill. Anna Kournikova could never be mistaken for a Brazilian, nor Sophia Loren for a Dutchwoman. And on and on.
Beauty is everywhere. Even in white, blue-eyed, blond American girls like Sidney Sweeney. No one in their right mind would ever mistake her for Leni Riefenstahl or Eva Braun.
But the American, British, and Australian Left Wing will not leave it alone, will they? That is because, in their relentless safari in search of racism, misogyny, fascism, and all the ‘phobics’, they leave no stone unturned. The fact that a simple play on words (‘genes’ and ‘jeans’) set these grimacing, growling, gasping nitwits off to such an extent that the pretty model is now the equivalent of Josef Goebbels’ dream girl is enough to make you cringe. Still, it’s a good thing that Sidney is not named ‘Heidi’. Or ‘Hildegarde’. Or Scarlett O’Hara. We’d all be fucked then, wouldn’t we? The Collapse of Democracy.
As for black people, I have something to say that I haven’t heard anyone else bring up. I go back to a time and place where real racism existed. The kind you read about in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and To Kill a Mockingbird. The kind of racism that everyone from Frederick Douglass to James Baldwin to Langston Hughes, to Alice Walker, to Toni Morrison has written about. I saw it with my own eyes. And I saw the supreme dignity, courage, and grace with which black people (‘colored’ people, as we respectfully called them then) showed in the face of serious, sometimes deadly, adversity.
Their families were solid, their minds were spiritual, and their eyes were watching God (to paraphrase Zora Neale Hurston) – and I sensed no hatred from them toward whites. Pity, maybe. I think they pitied whites, and I understand why. These people had few rights and less justice. But they saw their ‘betters’ for exactly what they usually were: know-nothing redneck (am I allowed to say that? Probably, because it’s only white people I’m talking about) underachievers whose only claim to fame was being white instead of black,
Fast forward to now, and what do we see? Black anger. Black rage. And yes, Black racism. Against Jews. Against whites. Don’t insult me by denying it. It shows. It spills out of them. They make specious arguments such as ‘black people can never be called racist because it’s racist whites who control all the racist institutions.’ These are semantics. If you hate someone because of their race, that is racism, and blacks are as guilty of it as whites.
So maybe the kindness they showed in the past was just an act because they felt powerless, and to brandish their resentments toward whites could get them punished? I hope not. But now, where opportunities and seats of power abound for black people, they have nothing to be afraid of, and all the pent-up fury accumulating from generation after generation of injustice is spilling out like lava because they know they have nothing to fear. I guess it’s understandable. But it’s still ugly.
OK, fine. Fine. I can live with that, but let’s keep the tap flowing on BOTH sides. White voices should NOT be muted because they are not politically correct, and accusations of racism (plus the epithets of ‘fascist’, ‘Nazi’, etc) are allowed to pour forth without being edited or thought about first before being uttered. But I see that the restraint is demanded of one side only, and this is not fair.. Disagree with me if you will, but my view is that the anger and sometimes abuse that comes from the Black side of the aisle, so to speak, is NOT a sign of being denied, but rather a signal of Empowerment, of genuine bargaining power in the real world. African Americans now possess this bargaining power in rich abundance. Far from being systematically thwarted, refused equality, and forbidden access, Black people have more wide open chances than ever before.
Black pride and Black power are everywhere. In politics, in the universities, in entertainment, and, yes, in the corporate world too. Yet, very often their response to these changing times is to advertise – on full display – their contempt for the white race. NBA players making millions scream about slavery. Affirmative Action beneficiaries at Ivy League universities rail about plantations. Naturally, they find faithful accomplices in ‘progressive’ whites.
What annoys me is the silliness that now runs rampant. The endless Easter Egg hunt for signs of racism in the most innocuous situations. Example. Some years ago, there was an ad for cosmetics – some kind of face cream. In the ad were the comely gobs of three splendid women, side by side. Starting from the left was a black woman, with a Hispanic woman in the middle and a white woman (obviously a Nazi) on the right. DIVERSITY, can it be denied??? Equal representation, YEAH???
Nope, an accusation followed. The subliminal message, you see, was that, moving from left to right, if you used this cream, you could eventually rub the blackness from your face, and You Too could be WHITE.
I think the worm turned inside me from that moment on.
So, to conclude the progressive catechism: White people are racist by the definition of being white. All men (especially white men) abuse women. All gay people are helpless victims.
It’s not true, you know? But what does that matter when it runs crosscurrent to an agenda?
Whether vindictive black people, frenzied feminists, opportunistic transgenders, or WHOEVER, like it or not, Sidney Sweeney is a drop-dead gorgeous gal. Her great genes look fantastic in her jeans.
I understand that she is a Republican. Something wrong with that? I further understand that a couple of years ago, she celebrated her mom’s 60th birthday with an ad proclaiming “Make 60 Great Again.” This, of course, was greeted with the predictable rage and breakout hysteria by the hound dogs that led the Thought Police. Moreover, another commercial has emerged showing a luscious-looking Sidney licking lavishly on a cone of multi-flavored (multicultural??) Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Of course, that provoked a typical response from the woke. Racist ice cream, I guess. Or was it promoting obesity? (But hey, I thought obesity was now officially ‘in’. My advice: if you haven’t seen the video, check it out.
Sidney Sweeney is not a Nazi. Her play on words is not indicative of a resurgence of Eugenics. The Far Left has pushed that panic button again. Wake up, guys. Times have changed. Pretty girls are back. And they come in ALL FLAVOURS.
