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This seems to only underscore the point, or is it a joke at this point, that AE manipulated the right into promoting the campaign, because “the woke s...

I just did a search for prominent left-wing figures who’ve criticized AE for the ad campaign and several names came up, such as activist and scholar A...

I think they predicted a positive return from accurately observing the cultural climate and subtly leveraging it to their advantage. And again, advert...

They don't deserve all the credit. Many prominent right-wing figures have played along, including various writers, personalities like Dr. Phil and Meg...

Anyway, I’ve outlined an ad campaign strategy, a successful campaign strategy—how and why someone may intend to do something. Will you now admit that ...

They didn’t say Beyoncé has great genes.

Of course it’s possible they spent about $7 million on the campaign without realizing that pairing the “Good Genes” slogan with a blonde, blue-eyed wh...

Why sleazy? They’re in business to make money.

If we assume American Eagle intentionally provoked controversy with the “Good Genes” Sidney Sweeney campaign, the financial logic is clear: spend heav...

I can make a judgment based on their actions, and so can you. Why don’t you in this case?

You haven’t actually and I don’t understand the problem with answering whether or not you think it was intentional.

You say yourself that this is no big deal so why not say what you think? Do you think the controversy may have been intentional on AE’s part?

You haven't been clear on what you think about the ad. Do you think American Eagle is innocent and had no idea that their ad would be viewed as it has...

In the states it’s been heavily politicized in recent years, and quite successfully. https://i.postimg.cc/ct1848jY/IMG-0901.jpg Three pages back in th...

I can’t tell if you’re serious. Assuming you are, you wrote “Earnestly critiquing something is not mockery. If you feel its mockery., maybe just notic...

What is the correct term in this political climate?

Oh, sorry, I assume calling it satire is acceptable or at least less offensive.

They were mocking PC culture. Today, people like Andrew Doyle practically make a career out of mocking woke culture.

Wow, okay! :grimace:

Titania would kill in the woke thread. :lol:

That deserves a Paul Hollywood handshake. Thanks for posting it. After reading the woke thread I was starting to feel like wokeness is the worst thing...

Surfing is not a contact sport and locker rooms or whatever are also a non-issue. Btw, the woman who made a fuss about it didn’t compete as a longboar...

:lol: Who would you rescue first? 1. A child being abused. 2. Someone involved in an industrial accident. 3. A woman being sexually assaulted. 4. A wo...

It seems like a stretch to compare longboard surfing, something that doesn’t even qualify for the Olympics, to child abuse, industrial safety, and sex...

To date American Eagle is being tight lipped about it. When looking for their response just now I found this interesting tidbit from former Levi’s bra...

I’m curious if you think it would be appropriate for wokeists to ignore something like this: https://thedrum-media.imgix.net/thedrum-prod/s3/screensho...

Poor Pieter, a modern day Galileo forced to endure to endure the TPF Inquisition—so heroic. :lol: I was thinking what a shame it would be if your work...

There was a big controversy about a transwoman being allowed to compete a couple years ago. Last year the world surfing league tightened up the requir...

A similarity in the two is that both a surfer and a board can decide to hang 10.

Deeper down the rabbit hole, and assuming the AI is not hallucinating, iron is far more available than the elements which are historically used to mak...

I looked into it a bit further online just now and it appears that red, the first chromatic color mentioned in early writings across cultures, is stro...

Who needs enlightenment when you’ve got freshly popped popcorn and a good seat in the cave.

The religious hierarchy is fixed. Good reason for the separation of church and state in a democracy.

I’m not attacking a strawman or anything else. I’m merely voicing the opinion that the fundamental conflict is between hierarchical vertical thinking ...

We can probably skip paleolithic economic theory and simply acknowledge the absence of a state and organized religion, yes? This, in my opinion, loose...

What do you have to say about the fact that for 95% of human history we lived in hunter-gatherer egalitarian societies—without a state and organized r...

If I remember correctly, they examined the earliest written documents in various languages and looked for color names. They found that across language...

It’s highly relevant. Imagine two abstract paintings of similar composition side by side on a wall. One of the paintings is colored with large blocks ...

Another rabbit hole: constructed emotion theory and aesthetic experience.

There is no gainsaying the Bishop on this point, and that’s half the point. Rather, the fixed hierarchy is key to power stratification that wokeness a...

Simply the order that the names for colors begin appearing in written language. If you asked someone who didn’t yet have a name for blue what the colo...

White rabbit, blue dress, red queen…

I thought it interesting that it’s blue because according to the Berlin–Kay color term hierarchy theory blue is the latest primary color, or maybe to ...

I wonder if that's the case of blue particularly or for most or all colors. I'll read more myself when I get time.

The idea that wokeness is heretical is intriguing, especially since, on the surface, both wokeness and religion share a common concern for supporting ...

In my experience, that projection can deepen the aesthetic. Whether or not that’s a vice or a virtue… I tend to think aesthetic experience is benefici...

Thank you for the clarification. I’ve read books and articles that are critical of trans activism, so I’m familiar with some of the negative aspects. ...

Seriously, why not, as Fire put it, let Bud Light drinking be taken over?

Why not let Bud Light drinking be taken over? According to Anheuser-Busch most their market segment didn't care, and there are many other brands to ch...