Sydney Sweeney, unlike most prominent celebrities who dominate popular culture, doesn't talk about politics, even when asked.
You get no lectures from her about the issues of the day. She neither waves the flag nor kneels when the national anthem is sung. She acts, does ads, and does the required media availabilities, which is another way to say that she does her job without presuming to tell us what to think or bullying us into feeling guilty about anything.
Other celebrities have followed that policy, but they let themselves be bullied into becoming advocates, or indulged in the practice once their celebrity status was secured. Taylor Swift was a notable case; for years she stayed out of politics, but when she was attacked as a white supremacist icon (really?! says who?), she started doing advocacy all the time.
The one thing we know about her politics is that she is a registered Republican, and when you put that together with the obvious fact that white men (and non-white men) find her attractive, she has been coded by the Left as "MAGA."
Especially when it only seems to apply at their convenience. Beyonce dancing around half naked performing psuedo-sexual acts? Genius and empowering. Sydney Sweeney in an ad? Horrifying that she might turn men on. https://t.co/TgrutD03Ea
— Christian Twiste (Confessions of a Conservative) (@TwisteChristian) September 16, 2026
Now you and I might think that being MAGA means...being MAGA, which implies taking a strong political stance in favor of Trump and engaging in the culture war. But in the eyes of the Left, anybody who doesn't wage war against MAGA is MAGA, because politics and culture wars are their identity.
You know what really sets women’s sports back? MEN pretending to be women and winning women’s titles. Sports media is truly broken. https://t.co/BCk2ecfv0r
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 16, 2026
We all recall the American Eagle Jeans "controversy," in which Sweeney was accused of promoting eugenics because of the ad's pun about Sweeney having good genes.
Well, living in a world where Calvin Klein puts morbidly obese models in underwear to prove its wokeness, and Nike does much the same with fat models and Dylan Mulvaney, the Left sees eugenics when anybody who looks pretty is promoted as an ideal.
🚨 “The More Dysgenic, the Better”: Beatrice Adler-Bolton Says the Left Must Give Up the “Fantasy of Being Fitter Than the Fascists”
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) September 5, 2026
At Socialism 2026, Adler-Bolton argues that “fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism” and says the goal should not be to… pic.twitter.com/aK13lgiVGH
🚨 “The More Dysgenic, the Better”: Beatrice Adler-Bolton Says the Left Must Give Up the “Fantasy of Being Fitter Than the Fascists”
At Socialism 2026, Adler-Bolton argues that “fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism” and says the goal should not be to become “more useful to the ruling order.”
She says the left should not try to beat fascists “at their own game” by becoming “fitter, more eugenic.”
“In fact, the more dysgenic, the better, I think.”
She closes by arguing that revolution is not “a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies” and that the very idea is itself fascist.
The rising socialists will insist that dysgenics is the proper frame.
It's unsurprising that Sydney Sweeney hits the sour spot for leftists, because she combines something they find troubling — beauty—with something they find appalling — being a Republican.
These are the "journalists" writing hit pieces on Sydney Sweeney. Class is dismissed. pic.twitter.com/zw3A6J6L1H
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 15, 2026
So now we have the new Sweeney controversy, based on an ad she did for a sports prediction company. She is filming the ads (apparently, though probably not actually) nude, using sports-related equipment or clothing to cover the naughty bits.
Confirmed: Sydney Sweeney knows ball. pic.twitter.com/EXQ4PzVZsi
— Novig (@Novig) September 9, 2026
Leftists are going nuts over the ad, claiming that she is degrading women's sports by using her feminine body to sell sex to men instead of uplifting women's achievements.
Posing (mostly) nude focuses on the bodies, not the achievements. How dare she?
https://t.co/V5hsKPabnQ https://t.co/p1KTRAjyJ0
— Joseph Jones (@JoeGayHistorian) September 16, 2026
This argument is, of course, bovine excrement. Lots of female athletes have done provocative photoshoots, including completely nude ones.
It's just that they are all social justice warriors, and certainly not Republicans. If a Republican does what a leftist does, it is bad, because the person, not the action, is what determines the moral worth of the action.
Sydney Sweeney demonised for her recent nude shots advertising sports. The suggestion is that it’s demeaning women in sport. Yet all of these were met with studied silence. pic.twitter.com/4w5HZxWNOh
— David Vance (@DavidVance) September 16, 2026
There is a whole genre of the "stunning and brave" liberals who pose nude, all the way from actresses, sports figures, Lizzo (she has a category all to herself), and others who are celebrated for breaking taboos.
If you need to see any of that, have at it. There are videos of Lizzo's nude photoshoot for all to see. It really is stunning, if not brave.
Those are good forms of nudity. Especially Lizzo in her most obese days, because they served a political purpose.
Sydney Sweeney is starring in a new ad that is sparking controversy — this one by sports prediction platform Novig. The ad features a nude Sweeney, with sports equipment, like footballs, used as censors. Several female athletes have spoken out about the ad online, with many… pic.twitter.com/5y31T0n2vU
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 14, 2026
Sydney Sweeney is starring in a new ad that is sparking controversy — this one by sports prediction platform Novig. The ad features a nude Sweeney, with sports equipment, like footballs, used as censors. Several female athletes have spoken out about the ad online, with many saying it sets female athletes back.
“Idk what Sydney Sweeney was doing, but this is what a woman in sports looks like,” wrote gymnast Gracie Kramer, who inspired other women to share similar posts.
CBS News has reached out to Novig, of which Sweeney is a shareholder, and has not received a response.
It's all an obviously coordinated campaign to punish Sweeney for not being a dues-paying member of the club. There is a campaign to cancel her — again, since the last one failed — and to make her too toxic to get work in Hollywood.
Sydney Sweeney has lost over 200,000 Instagram followers following backlash over her nude sports-betting advertisement.
— Variety (@Variety) September 14, 2026
The ad triggered a negative reaction from those who object to its sexualization of women in sports. Several women Olympic athletes have weighed in on the… pic.twitter.com/3S0B8aPbI4
Ironically, Sweeney isn't my type, and I haven't seen her featured in anything other than ads, but it's pretty clear to me that none of this is any more spontaneous than any other media-pressure campaign.
Everything that can possibly be made an ideological issue becomes one; nothing is just what it is, which in this case is an actress and a company trying to make money.
But making money in entertainment is supposed to be reserved for the lefties; it is their space, and nobody else is allowed in.
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