I swear, people on the comm are deeply uncurious and in denial about basic facts. The ad was unquestionably promoting eugenics in a silly tongue and cheek way 🤪. We live in a fascist state where people and companies feel more bold in coming out of the closet as evil; how is it so hard to believe that they’d run an ad like that?

I doubt it’s just this comm though. Americans in general are as in denial about the state of things as the 1930s Germans before them. Things are more outrageous than they feel comfortable with, so to maintain their view of a just world, they just become further detached from reality. It’s easier to think the ground under you is stable than scramble to deal with the quicksand.

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
    3·
    24 hours ago

    This is manufactured outrage. Either by the company themselves to get more attention or by right wing media to paint leftists in a bad light to their audience. The best thing you can do either way is to just ignore it.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      31·
      22 hours ago

      Intentionally stoked outrage for profit? Yes. Manufactured outrage? No, I genuinely get very pissed whenever evil fuckers try to push eugenics, something that always happens every few years in the scientific community and needs to get shot down every time lest people think the ideas hold any validity.

      It’s not about the ad, it’s the normalization of a very cruel and dangerous ideology. Ignoring it is just letting it fester and become normal. I would understand if you personally didn’t care, but the hostility is really frustrating. This post even got a troll who got removed by mods, so it’s not like these ideas have no power for fascists.