{"id":19036,"date":"2025-08-17T00:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19036"},"modified":"2025-08-17T00:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:12:59","slug":"the-self-sustaining-outrage-cycle-of-sydney-sweeneys-jeans-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19036","title":{"rendered":"The Self-Sustaining Outrage Cycle of Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“were “the Democrats,” collectively, actually upset about the ad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, “criticism of the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering of accounts with relatively few followers,” Ken Bensinger and Stuart A. Thompson of The New York Times<\/em> wrote last week<\/a>. “Conversation about the ad did not escalate online or in traditional media until days later, after right-leaning influencers, broadcasters and politicians began criticizing what they described as a wave of progressive outrage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do woke liberals really<\/em> think a publicly traded clothing company, and one of the biggest stars in the world, are inserting eugenicist terminology into commercials? Who cares, if it means I get to make my political enemies out to be fools.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/11\/the-self-sustaining-outrage-cycle-of-sydney-sweeneys-jeans-ad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“were “the Democrats,” collectively, actually upset about the ad?
\nAt first, “criticism of the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering of accounts with relatively few followers,” Ken Bensinger and Stuart A. Thompson of The New York Times wrote last week. “Conversation about the ad did not escalate online or in traditional media until days later, after right-leaning influencers, broadcasters and politicians began criticizing what they described as a wave of progressive outrage.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Do woke liberals really think a publicly traded clothing company, and one of the biggest stars in the world, are inserting eugenicist terminology into commercials? Who cares, if it means I get to make my political enemies out to be fools.”<\/p>\n

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