New York Times Pretends Left Didn’t Totally Melt Down Over Sydney Sweeney Ad

The New York Times ignored the blatant fact on Thursday that the political left melted down over actress Sydney Sweeney doing a jeans advertisement.

The left-wing media and social media users flat-out accused the American Eagle ad, which featured Sweeney, of promoting eugenics and Nazi propaganda for having a blonde, blue-eyed model and for its play on the word “genes.” The Times published an article titled, “How the Right Shaped the Debate Over the Sydney Sweeney Ads,” to argue that the left did not, in fact, express any anger toward Sweeney.

“ claimed that progressives were up in arms over the intentional double-entendre with the word ‘genes,’ suggesting it was winking at eugenics or white supremacy,” the articles reads. “In reality, most progressives weren’t worked up much at all.”

The Times attempted to blame right-wing influencers for the escalation of online discourse about the ad. The outlet claimed that “only a few thousand posts on X mentioned” Sweeney and that “fewer than 10 percent” actually expressed outrage.

The left-wing media rushed to make the advertisement about race immediately after its release. MSNBC producer Hannah Holland published an op-ed on July 29 titled, “Sydney Sweeney’s ad shows an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness,” which argued in its caption that the advertisement reflected something “ugly and startling.”

“The backlash has been swift and fierce, and some of it, at least, if you ask me, is fair. The internet has been quick to condemn the advertisement as noninclusive at best and as overtly promoting ‘white supremacy’ and ‘Nazi propaganda’ at worst,” the MSNBC producer wrote.