Sydney Sweeney’s Other Genes

In the aftermath of the SHOCKING disclosure that Sydney Sweeney is a Republican and the absurd injection of racial controversy into her jeans advertisement, the actress said something completely unexpected from a movie star cudgeled by the political correctness police stick.

She said nothing.

And that was the right thing to do. Because despite the sickening uproar, nothing had actually happened.

The ad said she has “nice jeans” and displayed her rocking some denim in a manner confirming she had clearly won the “genes” lottery as well. This galvanized race-baiters, the identity politics crowd, and the hypersensitive, who leaped around until they landed on the conclusion that this must have something to do with eugenics and Nazis. There was no evidence for this and no particular reason to believe it, since beautiful women who have not submitted to various scalpels and injections have indeed inherited their looks.

It was further revealed that she is something even worse than a Nazi. She’s a registered Republican.

In liberal Hollywood, this all is potentially career-ending stuff. At least, that’s what we’ve come to expect. What director is going to cast a Nazi or a Republican? How could Sweeney endure the opprobrium and the miserable, disapproving countenances of the leftists she has to work with?

Well, it turns out she also won a second gene lottery, albeit one also influenced by proper parenting: She’s tough.

No doubt, Sweeney received counsel from fearful friends and expensive public image experts to go out and grovel to the grasping hordes demanding the immediate presentation of her head on a platter. She could perhaps strap herself to a windmill off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard to help wean Massachusetts off fossil fuels, or cut a hip-hop video with Al Sharpton. Something, anything to calm the storm!

She could be like actress Florence Pugh, who begged for forgiveness because she wore corn rows when very young. This act of “cultural appropriation” prompted Pugh years later to acknowledge her “white privilege.”

She pleaded for understanding. 

“I apologize profusely that it took this long,” Pugh wrote. 

Or be like Scarlett Johansson, who backed out of a role as a transgender after first resisting demands that the part be given to a transgender actor. 

So as not to let a brief stand on principle ruin her future, Johansson additionally coughed up some humiliating mumbo jumbo. 

“Our cultural understanding of transgender people continues to advance, and I’ve learned a lot from the community since making my first statement about my casting and realize it was insensitive,” she confessed. 

This time, there was none of that. There was, rather, the very tacit recognition by Sweeney that people are allowed to hold political opinions and to not have innocent actions, like making a jeans commercial, twisted into something vile.

Instead, her first public move after the controversy was to go dancing, without any fanfare, with a few of the co-stars from her latest movie. All of them were white—because, who cares?

It didn’t help Sweeney with the Hollywood crowd when President Donald Trump, considered by the Left to be America’s Nazi-in-chief, barged into the discourse. 

“Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the ‘HOTTEST’ ad out there. It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are ‘flying off the shelves.’ Go get ‘em Sydney!” he exclaimed on Truth Social.

But it was also Trump, through his own fearlessness, who had set her up to make a stand. He has almost single-handedly tapped into and deployed Americans’ frustration with unceasing grievance and the vilification by the Left of normal, everyday life and the values that have animated our culture for centuries.

Now, the public, weary of being herded like the proletariat by a small cadre of cultural Bolsheviks, is ready to help Sweeney resist. A poll by the Economist/YouGov found that only 12% of Americans found the jeans ad offensive. Three times as many said it was clever, which—I mean, come on—it was.

This could still go several ways for Sweeney. Sadly, the vast majority of the most virulent showbiz leftists have not fled the country because of Trump. They are here, and they probably want to destroy her.

On the other hand, there’s the often-cited theory that no publicity is bad. In fact, Sweeney has traveled over the past month from Gen-Z pinup girl to a household name. The cash to be made by putting her in a film may well eclipse the dopamine-hit of canceling her.

But she’s already gotten the role of a lifetime. While other stars make-pretend that they’re heroes in the latest Marvel action production, Sweeney plays the part in our culture of a young woman who stands up to the fearsome monster known as political correctness. 

And like in the movies, the hero wins.

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