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Steve B.'s avatar

I am diametrically opposed to their backward, subversive thinking. They need to be called out and fought at every turn.

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Erik Vynckier's avatar

MMGA.

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GT77's avatar

I would much rather see no ads, but if I have to see them, I much more prefer the pretty blond white girl, than the 2019 ad with the large black woman with an even larger ass, in her bra or whatever she had on top, with her fat hanging out. Even if you look like that, it is not a flattering picture of the jeans, or how such a woman would look in those jeans. The large woman needs to wear something else other than tight jeans. What's wrong with using attractive actors to sell products? I don't think many people WANT to look like the large black woman with the huge ass, so why show that in your ad? It could not have been getting people to buy their jeans.

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Anndraya Blayer-Brown's avatar

Much woke ado about nothing.

Model looks a bit like Trump's daughter, Tiffany.

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AB's avatar

The AE marketing team deserves a big fat bonus!

Nice article Matt

So refreshing to see a retailer come to their senses

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Jack Sprat's avatar

As long as nobody gets killed or maimed or has their property stolen over it who really gives a shit. Everybody's got to live in their own skin, if one person is happy with their skin and that causes another person to have issues about their own skin, then that's the one with the issues problem.

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pete's avatar

Woke is broke. What a conundrum.

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dr. b's avatar

Only racists see racism in these ads. Any very attractive man or woman from any racial group has good genes. Full stop. One more thing: Why do the wokesters assert that sexual orientation is inborn, but act as though heterosexual men will actually find hideously obese women attractive because they were declared as “beautiful”?

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GT77's avatar

Sounds like a "friend" trying to get you to go on a blind date. "She's pretty, and has a really good personality". Nobody wants to see that huge ass on their TV screen, and woman that look like shouldn't whine about not being in jeans ads. People buy certain clothing to make them look attractive. I don't believe anyone wants to look like the woman in the 2019 ad.

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Mary Ann Biermeier, M.Ed.'s avatar

I am buying the jeans!

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Robert Michael's avatar

So one can't enjoy looking at a sexy white girl without joining the Nazi Party? What bullshit. In your faces, liberals

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Kevin Beck's avatar

I thought the ad was as hilarious as the response by the Woke Brigade was expected and contemptuous. Thankfully, I'm almost as anti-woke as humanly possible, and have been disgusted that the wokesters have had their way for the amount of time they've had in the open. And just as sunlight is a great disinfectant, it also exposes the wokesters for the frauds that they are. And they have no place making decisions about advertising.

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Lauran's avatar

I no longer buy from Starbucks, Target, Budweiser or any other "woke" company. Tired of it all! The decent black, Hispanic, etc. people are sick of it, as well! Be what you want, and do what you want; but my friends and I no longer want to hear about it in ads on TV, or storefront windows.

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frank's avatar

I think when you try to catch big fish there are times when you let it run to tire it out.... probably just time to let it run... make people feel there is hope while the control grid keeps being built for total control...... the same marketing companies that gave us the fat black one now give us this... they've always been smart.. the omniwar is upon us

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HeadsNTails's avatar

It is, in fact, a “facist” dog whistle, and obviously so. “Nazi” just means “white.” People—especially a large portion of non-whites(!)—have woken up to what a non-white America really looks like, and they hate it. You just have to talk to people. Talk to your cab/uber driver. Talk to people in the checkout line. Especially non-white people. People look at how crazy things are getting and they’re all wondering when the white men will show up to set things straight. That’s why they support trump, misplaced as that support may be.

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Robert John Chaney's avatar

What goes around comes around!

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