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Carol Platt Liebau: Left Losing Control of the Narrative
Manage episode 498938934 series 3343739
Almost everyone has seen the American Eagle jeans ad starring Hollywood starlet Sydney Sweeney. Many on the left have claimed the ad’s play on the word “jeans” was a eugenics dog whistle because Sweeney is white, blonde, and blue-eyed. They insisted that opposing the ad was taking a stand against modern day Nazism.
It's nonsense. Those complaining most loudly about the ad are disproportionately likely to be found chanting “From the river to the sea!”
What’s more, since time immemorial, beautiful women have come in all colors, and everyone knows it.
Here’s what’s really going on. The left is losing the power to impose its definition of what’s beautiful and what’s not on the rest of us. What that means is that the left is losing its control over the culture more generally.
As a result, they’re losing their minds.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
4153 episodes
Manage episode 498938934 series 3343739
Almost everyone has seen the American Eagle jeans ad starring Hollywood starlet Sydney Sweeney. Many on the left have claimed the ad’s play on the word “jeans” was a eugenics dog whistle because Sweeney is white, blonde, and blue-eyed. They insisted that opposing the ad was taking a stand against modern day Nazism.
It's nonsense. Those complaining most loudly about the ad are disproportionately likely to be found chanting “From the river to the sea!”
What’s more, since time immemorial, beautiful women have come in all colors, and everyone knows it.
Here’s what’s really going on. The left is losing the power to impose its definition of what’s beautiful and what’s not on the rest of us. What that means is that the left is losing its control over the culture more generally.
As a result, they’re losing their minds.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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